Burch was a senator from Virginia and was a Democrat. He served from 1946 to 1946.
He was previously the representative for Virginia’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1935 to 1946; the representative for Virginia’s at-large district as a Democrat from 1933 to 1934; and the representative for Virginia’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1931 to 1933.
![Photo of Sen. Thomas Burch [D-VA, 1946-1946]](/static/legislator-photos/402015-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1945 to Aug 1946, Burch missed 34 of 116 roll call votes, which is 29.3%. This is much 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.
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
