William Kenyon, former U.S. Senator for Iowa

Dates	Title	State / District
1911-1923	Senator	Iowa

Voting Record

From May 1911 to Feb 1922, Kenyon missed 461 of 2,386 roll call votes, which is 19.3%. This is better than the median of 26.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Feb 1922. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1911 May-Aug	94	37	39.4%	97^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	34	5	14.7%	55^th
1912 Apr-Jul	103	63	61.2%	91^st
1912 Aug-Aug	51	16	31.4%	73^rd
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	110	8	7.3%	11^th
1913 Apr-Jul	38	4	10.5%	17^th
1913 Aug-Nov	109	8	7.3%	17^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	7	11.9%	29^th
1914 Mar-May	58	6	10.3%	12^th
1914 Jun-Aug	121	34	28.1%	37^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	22	34.4%	46^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	40	34.2%	63^rd
1913 Mar-Mar	5	5	100.0%	76^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	1	2.5%	5^th
1916 Mar-May	106	7	6.6%	12^th
1916 Jun-Aug	88	20	22.7%	40^th
1916 Sep-Sep	13	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	159	12	7.5%	7^th
1917 Apr-Jun	61	2	3.3%	6^th
1917 Jul-Sep	103	4	3.9%	16^th
1917 Oct-Oct	11	1	9.1%	27^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	3	8.8%	23^rd
1918 Mar-May	54	21	38.9%	64^th
1918 Jun-Aug	42	8	19.0%	38^th
1918 Sep-Nov	19	3	15.8%	23^rd
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	55	9	16.4%	25^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	31	2	6.5%	10^th
1919 Aug-Oct	31	3	9.7%	23^rd
1919 Nov-Nov	80	2	2.5%	29^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	56	21	37.5%	54^th
1920 Mar-May	103	18	17.5%	35^th
1920 Jun-Jun	19	4	21.1%	44^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	87	11	12.6%	32^nd
1921 Apr-Jun	64	7	10.9%	29^th
1921 Jul-Sep	39	11	28.2%	44^th
1921 Oct-Nov	90	25	27.8%	58^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	35	11	31.4%	61^st
1921 Mar-Mar	1	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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Sen. William Kenyon [R-IA, 1911-1923] leaves office as Senator from Iowa

Mar 3, 1923

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Sen. William Kenyon [R-IA, 1911-1923] takes office as Senator from Iowa

Apr 4, 1911

Sen. William Kenyon

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