Sen. Thaddeus Caraway
Former Senator for Arkansas
Caraway was a senator from Arkansas and was a Democrat. He served from 1927 to 1931.
He was previously a senator from Arkansas as a Democrat from 1921 to 1927; the representative for Arkansas’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1915 to 1921; and the representative for Arkansas’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1913 to 1915.
![Photo of Sen. Thaddeus Caraway [D-AR, 1927-1931]](/static/legislator-photos/402289-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1921 to Jun 1932, Caraway missed 628 of 1,853 roll call votes, which is 33.9%. This is worse than the median of 22.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1932. 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.
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
