Sen. George Perkins

Former Senator for California

Perkins was a senator from California and was a Republican. He served from 1903 to 1915.

He was previously a senator from California as a Republican from Aug 7, 1893 to Mar 3, 1903.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. George Perkins [R-CA, 1903-1915]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Aug 1893 to Mar 1915, Perkins missed 404 of 2,955 roll call votes, which is 13.7%. This is better than the median of 30.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1915. 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
1893 Aug-Oct	77	9	11.7%	33^rd
1894 Jan-Mar	35	6	17.1%	0^th
1894 Apr-Jul	321	40	12.5%	0^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	5	23.8%	33^rd
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	101	41	40.6%	75^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	2	5.6%	0^th
1896 Mar-May	66	2	3.0%	0^th
1896 Jun-Jun	24	14	58.3%	67^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	18	25.4%	22^nd
1897 Mar-Jul	200	14	7.0%	0^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	26	1	3.8%	10^th
1898 Mar-May	51	7	13.7%	0^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	4	7.5%	0^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	8	15.7%	10^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1900 Mar-May	57	1	1.8%	8^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	3	25.0%	42^nd
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	80	6	7.5%	7^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	2	7.7%	20^th
1902 Mar-May	49	1	2.0%	7^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1903 Jan-Mar	18	1	5.6%	0^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	4	7.1%	5^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1906 Mar-May	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	2	6.5%	9^th
1907 Jan-Mar	38	6	15.8%	16^th
1908 Mar-May	49	12	24.5%	39^th
1909 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	3^rd
1909 Apr-Aug	130	16	12.3%	35^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	7	100.0%	96^th
1910 Mar-May	36	5	13.9%	24^th
1910 Jun-Jun	41	1	2.4%	11^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	52	11	21.2%	48^th
1911 May-Aug	94	18	19.1%	35^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	35	2	5.7%	10^th
1912 Apr-Jul	105	7	6.7%	7^th
1912 Aug-Aug	51	6	11.8%	23^rd
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	111	19	17.1%	28^th
1913 Apr-Jul	38	11	28.9%	62^nd
1913 Aug-Nov	109	20	18.3%	30^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	7	11.9%	20^th
1914 Mar-May	58	14	24.1%	31^st
1914 Jun-Aug	121	13	10.7%	10^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	2	3.1%	2^nd
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	33	28.2%	40^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	1	20.0%	24^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

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Missed Votes

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