Philander Knox, former Senator for Pennsylvania

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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]

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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	55	42	76.4%	92^nd
1906 Jan-Feb	8	4	50.0%	77^th
1906 Mar-May	49	6	12.2%	38^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	17	54.8%	92^nd
1907 Jan-Mar	38	4	10.5%	14^th
1908 Mar-May	49	19	38.8%	47^th
1909 Jan-Mar	35	15	42.9%	83^rd
1917 Apr-Jun	63	21	33.3%	84^th
1917 Jul-Sep	103	21	20.4%	63^rd
1917 Oct-Oct	11	2	18.2%	55^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	3	8.8%	23^rd
1918 Mar-May	54	20	37.0%	58^th
1918 Jun-Aug	42	23	54.8%	86^th
1918 Sep-Nov	20	13	65.0%	80^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	55	23	41.8%	66^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	31	7	22.6%	51^st
1919 Aug-Oct	31	9	29.0%	67^th
1919 Nov-Nov	80	17	21.2%	90^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	56	31	55.4%	80^th
1920 Mar-May	103	43	41.7%	77^th
1920 Jun-Jun	19	11	57.9%	72^nd
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	87	45	51.7%	82^nd
1921 Apr-Jun	66	27	40.9%	83^rd
1921 Jul-Sep	40	21	52.5%	62^nd
1921 Oct-Nov	2	2	100.0%	99^th
1921 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^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. Philander Knox

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Missed Votes

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