John Weeks, former Senator for Massachusetts

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Weeks was a senator from Massachusetts and was a Republican. He served from 1913 to 1919.

He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 12^th congressional district as a Republican from 1907 to 1913; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 12^th congressional district as a Republican from 1905 to 1907.

Photo of Sen. John Weeks [R-MA, 1913-1919]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1913 to Mar 1919, Weeks missed 545 of 1,361 roll call votes, which is 40.0%. This is worse than the median of 29.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1919. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1913 Apr-Jul	38	8	21.1%	45^th
1913 Aug-Nov	109	37	33.9%	70^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	5	8.5%	16^th
1914 Mar-May	58	28	48.3%	69^th
1914 Jun-Aug	121	61	50.4%	67^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	42	65.6%	70^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	50	42.7%	74^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	5	100.0%	80^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	13	32.5%	71^st
1916 Mar-May	106	57	53.8%	78^th
1916 Jun-Aug	88	32	36.4%	60^th
1916 Sep-Sep	13	3	23.1%	47^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	159	42	26.4%	46^th
1917 Apr-Jun	63	15	23.8%	64^th
1917 Jul-Sep	103	40	38.8%	80^th
1917 Oct-Oct	11	1	9.1%	24^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	22	64.7%	86^th
1918 Mar-May	54	26	48.1%	74^th
1918 Jun-Aug	42	26	61.9%	88^th
1918 Sep-Nov	20	16	80.0%	86^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	55	15	27.3%	38^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	83^rd

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

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Sen. John Weeks

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Missed Votes

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