Sen. Joseph Bottum
Former Senator for South Dakota
Bottum was a senator from South Dakota and was a Republican. He served from 1962 to 1962.
![Photo of Sen. Joseph Bottum [R-SD, 1962-1962]](/static/legislator-photos/401619-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jul 1962 to Oct 1962, Bottum missed 60 of 137 roll call votes, which is 43.8%. This is much worse than the median of 9.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1962. 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
