Sen. Rush Holt

Former Senator for West Virginia

Holt was a senator from West Virginia and was a Democrat. He served from 1935 to 1940.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Rush Holt [D-WV, 1935-1940]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jun 1935 to Jan 1941, Holt missed 169 of 549 roll call votes, which is 30.8%. This is much worse than the median of 17.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1941. 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
1935 Apr-Jun	2	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Jul-Aug	46	19	41.3%	99^th
1936 Jan-Jun	61	18	29.5%	81^st
1937 Jan-Mar	19	7	36.8%	86^th
1937 Apr-Jun	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Jul-Aug	31	8	25.8%	85^th
1937 Nov-Dec	22	7	31.8%	80^th
1938 Jan-Jun	81	18	22.2%	58^th
1939 Jan-Mar	17	12	70.6%	99^th
1939 Apr-Jun	36	11	30.6%	71^st
1939 Jul-Aug	41	21	51.2%	95^th
1939 Oct-Nov	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	44	9	20.5%	62^nd
1940 Apr-Jun	64	27	42.2%	94^th
1940 Jul-Sep	38	10	26.3%	72^nd
1940 Oct-Nov	5	1	20.0%	25^th
1941 Jan-Jan 76th Congress	1	1	100.0%	62^nd

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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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources