Benjamin Golder, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1931-1933	Representative	Pennsylvania's 4^th District
1927-1931	Representative	Pennsylvania's 4^th District
1925-1927	Representative	Pennsylvania's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1925 to Mar 1933, Golder missed 169 of 344 roll call votes, which is 49.1%. This is worse than the median of 13.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1933. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	20	4	20.0%	96^th
1926 Mar-May	33	5	15.2%	82^nd
1926 Jun-Jul	20	5	25.0%	91^st
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	29	11	37.9%	99^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	43	21	48.8%	96^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	15	9	60.0%	95^th
1929 Apr-Jun	8	6	75.0%	98^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	8	7	87.5%	98^th
1930 Mar-May	24	9	37.5%	83^rd
1930 Jun-Jul	15	13	86.7%	96^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	26	16	61.5%	98^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	15	6	40.0%	94^th
1932 Mar-May	37	16	43.2%	94^th
1932 Jun-Jul	25	18	72.0%	96^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	26	23	88.5%	98^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