Rep. Thomas Curtis

Former Representative for Missouri’s 2^nd District

Curtis was the representative for Missouri’s 2^nd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1953 to 1968.

He was previously the representative for Missouri’s 12^th congressional district as a Republican from 1951 to 1952.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1951 to Oct 1968, Curtis missed 117 of 2,193 roll call votes, which is 5.3%. This is on par with the median of 5.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1968. 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
1951 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Apr-Jun	40	11	27.5%	97^th
1951 Jul-Sep	39	2	5.1%	77^th
1951 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	81^st
1952 Apr-Jun	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jul-Jul	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Aug	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	24	1	4.2%	54^th
1954 Jul-Aug	38	1	2.6%	60^th
1955 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Apr-Jun	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jul-Aug	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	30	3	10.0%	89^th
1956 Jul-Jul	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jul-Aug	52	4	7.7%	87^th
1958 Jan-Mar	21	3	14.3%	94^th
1958 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jul-Aug	40	1	2.5%	62^nd
1959 Jan-Apr	16	1	6.2%	81^st
1959 May-Aug	54	2	3.7%	64^th
1959 Sep-Sep	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Feb-Apr	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 May-Aug	70	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	22	3	13.6%	99^th
1961 May-Aug	65	3	4.6%	72^nd
1961 Sep-Sep	29	1	3.4%	54^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	49	1	2.0%	55^th
1962 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	1	3.2%	58^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	50	5	10.0%	83^rd
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	1	2.9%	56^th
1964 Jul-Sep	49	1	2.0%	42^nd
1964 Oct-Oct	4	1	25.0%	81^st
1965 Jan-Mar	28	4	14.3%	71^st
1965 Apr-Jun	53	10	18.9%	79^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	11	11.2%	58^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	12	54.5%	94^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	9	17.6%	67^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	8	11.1%	38^th
1966 Oct-Oct	40	2	5.0%	22^nd
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	1	1.7%	38^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	2	2.0%	40^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	1	2.6%	56^th
1968 Apr-Jun	79	2	2.5%	46^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	2	2.2%	28^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	5	20.0%	66^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

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Missed Votes

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