Benjamin Murphy, former Representative from Ohio's 18th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1931-1933	Representative	Ohio's 18^th District
1927-1931	Representative	Ohio's 18^th District
1925-1927	Representative	Ohio's 18^th District
1923-1925	Representative	Ohio's 18^th District
1919-1923	Representative	Ohio's 18^th District

Voting Record

From May 1919 to Mar 1933, Murphy missed 246 of 1,248 roll call votes, which is 19.7%. 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1919 May-Jul	59	13	22.0%	59^th
1919 Aug-Oct	50	32	64.0%	90^th
1919 Nov-Nov	16	7	43.8%	71^st
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	39	5	12.8%	33^rd
1920 Mar-May	69	12	17.4%	51^st
1920 Jun-Jun	8	1	12.5%	51^st
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	92	13	14.1%	56^th
1921 Apr-Jun	57	7	12.3%	48^th
1921 Jul-Aug	47	7	14.9%	43^rd
1921 Oct-Nov	27	21	77.8%	96^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	48	7	14.6%	32^nd
1922 Mar-May	45	9	20.0%	46^th
1922 Jun-Aug	54	12	22.2%	39^th
1922 Sep-Sep	13	1	7.7%	19^th
1922 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	60	6	10.0%	22^nd
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1924 Mar-May	85	9	10.6%	55^th
1924 Jun-Jun	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	54	2	3.7%	45^th
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Mar-May	33	2	6.1%	64^th
1926 Jun-Jul	21	2	9.5%	68^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	33	2	6.1%	65^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	52	6	11.5%	50^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	18	8	44.4%	88^th
1929 Apr-Jun	12	1	8.3%	51^st
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	8	2	25.0%	53^rd
1930 Mar-May	26	10	38.5%	84^th
1930 Jun-Jul	18	7	38.9%	79^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	33	2	6.1%	29^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	15	1	6.7%	52^nd
1932 Mar-May	30	23	76.7%	98^th
1932 Jun-Jul	24	13	54.2%	93^rd
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	37	3	8.1%	36^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