Sen. Theodore Bilbo

Former Senator for Mississippi

Bilbo was a senator from Mississippi and was a Democrat. He served from 1935 to 1946.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Theodore Bilbo [D-MS, 1935-1946]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1935 to Aug 1946, Bilbo missed 254 of 1,289 roll call votes, which is 19.7%. This is worse than the median of 13.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1946. 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 Jan-Mar	37	3	8.1%	46^th
1935 Apr-Jun	49	8	16.3%	64^th
1935 Jul-Aug	46	10	21.7%	81^st
1936 Jan-Jun	61	5	8.2%	17^th
1937 Jan-Mar	19	4	21.1%	69^th
1937 Apr-Jun	21	8	38.1%	88^th
1937 Jul-Aug	31	3	9.7%	50^th
1937 Nov-Dec	22	3	13.6%	52^nd
1938 Jan-Jun	81	11	13.6%	33^rd
1939 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	35^th
1939 Apr-Jun	36	9	25.0%	67^th
1939 Jul-Aug	41	13	31.7%	85^th
1939 Oct-Nov	20	3	15.0%	77^th
1940 Jan-Mar	44	12	27.3%	74^th
1940 Apr-Jun	64	14	21.9%	74^th
1940 Jul-Sep	38	13	34.2%	83^rd
1940 Oct-Nov	5	1	20.0%	36^th
1941 Jan-Jan 76th Congress	1	1	100.0%	64^th
1941 Jan-Mar	23	7	30.4%	90^th
1941 Apr-Jun	31	17	54.8%	90^th
1941 Jul-Sep	23	8	34.8%	74^th
1941 Oct-Dec	21	2	9.5%	51^st
1942 Jan-Mar	23	3	13.0%	44^th
1942 Apr-Jun	28	9	32.1%	69^th
1942 Jul-Sep	19	5	26.3%	46^th
1942 Oct-Dec	24	3	12.5%	30^th
1943 Jan-Mar	20	9	45.0%	88^th
1943 Apr-Jun	52	12	23.1%	62^nd
1943 Jul-Sep	20	14	70.0%	88^th
1943 Oct-Dec	30	10	33.3%	84^th
1944 Jan-Mar	51	16	31.4%	76^th
1944 Apr-Jun	23	4	17.4%	45^th
1944 Aug-Sep	7	5	71.4%	88^th
1944 Nov-Dec	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Apr-Jun	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Jul-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Oct-Dec	24	1	4.2%	29^th
1946 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Apr-Jun	75	5	6.7%	60^th
1946 Jul-Aug	48	2	4.2%	58^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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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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