McCumber was a senator from North Dakota and was a Republican. He served from 1905 to 1923.
He was previously a senator from North Dakota as a Republican from 1899 to 1905.
![Photo of Sen. Porter McCumber [R-ND, 1905-1923]](/static/legislator-photos/407398-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1899 to Mar 1923, McCumber missed 1,223 of 3,769 roll call votes, which is 32.4%. This is on par with the median of 28.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1923. 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
