McKellar was a senator from Tennessee and was a Democrat. He served from 1923 to 1952.
He was previously a senator from Tennessee as a Democrat from 1917 to 1923; the representative for Tennessee’s 10th congressional district as a Democrat from 1915 to 1917; and the representative for Tennessee’s 10th congressional district as a Democrat from 1911 to 1915.
![Photo of Sen. Kenneth McKellar [D-TN, 1923-1952]](/static/legislator-photos/407494-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1917 to Jul 1952, McKellar missed 723 of 5,449 roll call votes, which is 13.3%. This is much worse than the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1952. 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
