President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Former President of the United States
Kennedy was President of the United States and was a Democratic. He served from 1961 to 1963.
He was previously a senator from Massachusetts as a Democrat from 1953 to 1960; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 11th congressional district as a Democrat from 1947 to 1952.
![Photo of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy [D, 1961-1963]](/static/legislator-photos/406274-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1953 to Sep 1960, Kennedy missed 316 of 1,217 roll call votes, which is 26.0%. This is much worse than the median of 7.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Sep 1960. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
