Goff was a senator from West Virginia and was a Republican. He served from 1913 to 1919.
He was previously the representative for West Virginia’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1887 to 1889; the representative for West Virginia’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1885 to 1887; and the representative for West Virginia’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1883 to 1885.
![Photo of Sen. Nathan Goff [R-WV, 1913-1919]](/static/legislator-photos/404617-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Apr 1913 to Mar 1919, Goff missed 1,238 of 1,356 roll call votes, which is 91.3%. This is much 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, 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
