Sen. Prescott Bush

Former Senator for Connecticut

Bush was a senator from Connecticut and was a Republican. He served from 1952 to 1962.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Prescott Bush [R-CT, 1952-1962]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1953 to Oct 1962, Bush missed 115 of 1,645 roll call votes, which is 7.0%. This is on par with the median of 9.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1962. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1953 Jan-Mar	9	1	11.1%	42^nd
1953 Apr-Jun	43	1	2.3%	33^rd
1953 Jul-Jul	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	50	3	6.0%	38^th
1954 Jul-Sep	91	4	4.4%	57^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	3	11.5%	63^rd
1955 Apr-Jun	38	7	18.4%	90^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	1	4.3%	58^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	3	6.4%	69^th
1956 Apr-Jun	50	4	8.0%	52^nd
1956 Jul-Jul	33	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	8	17.8%	83^rd
1957 Jul-Aug	46	1	2.2%	36^th
1958 Feb-Mar	38	1	2.6%	32^nd
1958 Apr-Jun	86	3	3.5%	34^th
1958 Jul-Aug	76	3	3.9%	43^rd
1959 Jan-Apr	57	1	1.8%	34^th
1959 May-Aug	128	9	7.0%	53^rd
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	79	4	5.1%	28^th
1960 May-Aug	123	5	4.1%	27^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	2	6.5%	57^th
1961 May-Aug	137	18	13.1%	78^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	11	30.6%	84^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	62	9	14.5%	64^th
1962 Jul-Sep	122	11	9.0%	37^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	2	11.1%	60^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

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Missed Votes

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