Gerry was a senator from Rhode Island and was a Democrat. He served from 1935 to 1946.
He was previously a senator from Rhode Island as a Democrat from 1923 to 1929; a senator from Rhode Island as a Democrat from 1917 to 1923; and the representative for Rhode Island’s 2nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1913 to 1915.
![Photo of Sen. Peter Gerry [D-RI, 1935-1946]](/static/legislator-photos/404510-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1917 to Aug 1946, Gerry missed 1,015 of 3,492 roll call votes, which is 29.1%. This is much worse than the median of 13.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1946. 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
