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Sen. Wilbert “Pappy” O'Daniel

Former Senator from Texas, Democrat

O'Daniel, a Democrat, was a senator from Texas from 1941 to 1948.

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Voting Record

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From Aug 1941 to Aug 1948, O'Daniel missed 103 of 847 roll call votes, which is 12.2%. This is on par with the median of 9.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1948. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1941 Jul-Sep	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Oct-Dec	21	4	19.0%	76^th
1942 Jan-Mar	23	3	13.0%	48^th
1942 Apr-Jun	28	10	35.7%	76^th
1942 Jul-Sep	19	12	63.2%	98^th
1942 Oct-Dec	24	5	20.8%	46^th
1943 Jan-Mar	20	6	30.0%	81^st
1943 Apr-Jun	52	5	9.6%	33^rd
1943 Jul-Sep	20	6	30.0%	65^th
1943 Oct-Dec	30	2	6.7%	26^th
1944 Jan-Mar	51	17	33.3%	79^th
1944 Apr-Jun	23	8	34.8%	74^th
1944 Aug-Sep	7	2	28.6%	54^th
1944 Nov-Dec	17	10	58.8%	83^rd
1945 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	49^th
1945 Apr-Jun	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Jul-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Oct-Dec	24	2	8.3%	47^th
1946 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Apr-Jun	75	6	8.0%	64^th
1946 Jul-Aug	48	1	2.1%	42^nd
1947 Jan-Mar	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jul-Jul	39	1	2.6%	37^th
1947 Nov-Dec	8	2	25.0%	89^th
1948 Feb-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Apr-Jun	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Aug-Aug	8	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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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