Weeks was a senator from Massachusetts and was a Republican. He served from 1913 to 1919.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 12th congressional district as a Republican from 1907 to 1913; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 12th congressional district as a Republican from 1905 to 1907.
![Photo of Sen. John Weeks [R-MA, 1913-1919]](/static/legislator-photos/411414-200px.jpeg)
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.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
