Rep. Stanley Dent

Former Representative for Alabama’s 2^nd District

Dent was the representative for Alabama’s 2^nd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1915 to 1921.

He was previously the representative for Alabama’s 2^nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1909 to 1915.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1909 to Mar 1921, Dent missed 401 of 1,504 roll call votes, which is 26.7%. This is on par with the median of 25.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1921. 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
1909 Mar-Aug	36	6	16.7%	57^th
Dec 1909-Feb 1910	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1910 Mar-May	60	16	26.7%	60^th
1910 Jun-Jun	18	2	11.1%	40^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	68	12	17.6%	41^st
1911 Apr-Aug	49	2	4.1%	12^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	58	27	46.6%	77^th
1912 Apr-Jul	57	9	15.8%	25^th
1912 Aug-Aug	30	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	67	4	6.0%	8^th
1913 Apr-Jul	22	13	59.1%	63^rd
1913 Aug-Nov	43	8	18.6%	6^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	1	4.2%	10^th
1914 Mar-May	34	2	5.9%	9^th
1914 Jun-Aug	62	3	4.8%	5^th
1914 Sep-Oct	29	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	67	19	28.4%	66^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1916 Mar-May	53	9	17.0%	55^th
1916 Jun-Aug	23	2	8.7%	20^th
1916 Sep-Sep	3	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	62	2	3.2%	10^th
1917 Apr-Jun	43	7	16.3%	44^th
1917 Jul-Sep	10	2	20.0%	40^th
1917 Oct-Oct	4	1	25.0%	40^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	10	29.4%	75^th
1918 Mar-May	65	25	38.5%	74^th
1918 Jun-Aug	33	12	36.4%	58^th
1918 Sep-Oct	14	4	28.6%	45^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	63	27	42.9%	82^nd
1919 May-Jul	62	28	45.2%	79^th
1919 Aug-Oct	52	20	38.5%	53^rd
1919 Nov-Nov	16	3	18.8%	36^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	39	10	25.6%	51^st
1920 Mar-May	70	41	58.6%	86^th
1920 Jun-Jun	8	4	50.0%	69^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	92	70	76.1%	91^st

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

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