Porter Dale, former Senator for Vermont

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Dale was a senator from Vermont and was a Republican. He served from 1927 to 1933.

He was previously a senator from Vermont as a Republican from 1923 to 1927; and the representative for Vermont’s 2^nd congressional district as a Republican from 1915 to 1923.

Photo of Sen. Porter Dale [R-VT, 1927-1933]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1923 to Mar 1933, Dale missed 373 of 1,378 roll call votes, which is 27.1%. This is worse than the median of 22.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1933. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	54	3	5.6%	15^th
1924 Mar-May	86	4	4.7%	11^th
1924 Jun-Jun	18	2	11.1%	54^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	77	14	18.2%	67^th
1926 Jan-Feb	59	16	27.1%	67^th
1926 Mar-May	51	11	21.6%	58^th
1926 Jun-Jul	38	21	55.3%	88^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	77	23	29.9%	85^th
1925 Mar-Mar	11	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	125	47	37.6%	89^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	66	31	47.0%	88^th
1929 May-Jun	36	5	13.9%	56^th
1929 Sep-Sep	8	3	37.5%	73^rd
1929 Oct-Nov	55	24	43.6%	91^st
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	100	43	43.0%	89^th
1930 Mar-May	142	34	23.9%	53^rd
1930 Jun-Jul	23	4	17.4%	37^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	63	19	30.2%	69^th
1930 Jul-Jul	9	1	11.1%	52^nd
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	63	26	41.3%	62^nd
1932 Mar-May	90	19	21.1%	49^th
1932 Jun-Jul	64	19	29.7%	46^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	63	4	6.3%	12^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. Porter Dale

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Missed Votes

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