Rep. Chester Mize

Former Representative for Kansas’s 2^nd District

Mize was the representative for Kansas’s 2^nd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1965 to 1970.

Bioguide

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1965 to Dec 1970, Mize missed 141 of 1,315 roll call votes, which is 10.7%. This is on par with the median of 8.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1970. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absences, major life events, and running for higher office.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1965 Jan-Mar	28	2	7.1%	44^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	1	1.9%	13^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	12	12.2%	65^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	9	40.9%	87^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	4	13.3%	60^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	9	17.6%	68^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	7	9.7%	32^nd
1966 Oct-Oct	40	3	7.5%	27^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	2	6.5%	77^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	8	13.6%	96^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	79	3	3.8%	64^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	2	2.2%	30^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	4	14.3%	59^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	3	6.7%	34^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	7	8.0%	29^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	1	2.9%	16^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	7	9.5%	24^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	14	18.4%	63^rd
1970 Oct-Dec	81	43	53.1%	90^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