Moses Clapp, former Senator for Minnesota

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Clapp was a senator from Minnesota and was a Republican. He served from 1905 to 1917.

He was previously a senator from Minnesota as a Republican from 1901 to 1905.

Photo of Sen. Moses Clapp [R-MN, 1905-1917]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1901 to Mar 1917, Clapp missed 660 of 2,111 roll call votes, which is 31.3%. This is on par with the median of 32.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1917. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	52	32	61.5%	92^nd
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	9	34.6%	54^th
1902 Mar-May	49	34	69.4%	92^nd
1902 Jun-Jun	23	4	17.4%	31^st
1903 Jan-Mar	18	12	66.7%	92^nd
1901 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	62^nd
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	19	52.8%	56^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	17	30.4%	61^st
1906 Jan-Feb	8	5	62.5%	86^th
1906 Mar-May	49	7	14.3%	48^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	14	45.2%	57^th
1907 Jan-Mar	38	13	34.2%	54^th
1908 Mar-May	49	22	44.9%	53^rd
1909 Jan-Mar	35	10	28.6%	48^th
1909 Apr-Aug	130	19	14.6%	35^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	3	42.9%	51^st
1910 Mar-May	36	2	5.6%	11^th
1910 Jun-Jun	41	10	24.4%	43^rd
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	52	17	32.7%	69^th
1911 May-Aug	94	9	9.6%	16^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	35	11	31.4%	69^th
1912 Apr-Jul	105	28	26.7%	47^th
1912 Aug-Aug	51	9	17.6%	35^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	111	27	24.3%	53^rd
1913 Apr-Jul	38	17	44.7%	81^st
1913 Aug-Nov	109	47	43.1%	73^rd
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	19	32.2%	64^th
1914 Mar-May	58	32	55.2%	78^th
1914 Jun-Aug	121	30	24.8%	27^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	12	18.8%	22^nd
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	36	30.8%	47^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	5	12.5%	18^th
1916 Mar-May	106	26	24.5%	35^th
1916 Jun-Aug	88	32	36.4%	53^rd
1916 Sep-Sep	13	1	7.7%	21^st
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	159	69	43.4%	69^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. Moses Clapp

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Missed Votes

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