Kenyon was a senator from Iowa and was a Republican. He served from 1911 to 1923.
![Photo of Sen. William Kenyon [R-IA, 1911-1923]](/static/legislator-photos/406295-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From May 1911 to Feb 1922, Kenyon missed 497 of 2,396 roll call votes, which is 20.7%. This is better than the median of 28.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Feb 1922. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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