John Miller, former Senator for Arkansas

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Miller was a senator from Arkansas and was a Democrat. He served from 1937 to 1941.

He was previously the representative for Arkansas’s 2^nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1931 to 1936.

Photo of Sen. John Miller [D-AR, 1937-1941]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Nov 1937 to Mar 1941, Miller missed 68 of 392 roll call votes, which is 17.3%. This is on par with the median of 18.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1941. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1937 Nov-Dec	22	3	13.6%	50^th
1938 Jan-Jun	81	13	16.0%	36^th
1939 Jan-Mar	17	7	41.2%	95^th
1939 Apr-Jun	36	7	19.4%	50^th
1939 Jul-Aug	41	6	14.6%	50^th
1939 Oct-Nov	20	1	5.0%	53^rd
1940 Jan-Mar	44	7	15.9%	51^st
1940 Apr-Jun	64	11	17.2%	56^th
1940 Jul-Sep	38	7	18.4%	59^th
1940 Oct-Nov	5	2	40.0%	54^th
1941 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Mar	23	4	17.4%	79^th

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

Sen. John Miller

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Missed Votes

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