Knox was a senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican. He served from 1917 to 1921.
He was previously a senator from Pennsylvania as a Republican from 1904 to 1909.
![Photo of Sen. Philander Knox [R-PA, 1917-1921]](/static/legislator-photos/406452-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1904 to Oct 1921, Knox missed 446 of 1,164 roll call votes, which is 38.3%. This is worse than the median of 28.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1921. 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
