Charles Gerlach, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1947-1948	Representative	Pennsylvania's 8^th District
1945-1946	Representative	Pennsylvania's 8^th District
1939-1944	Representative	Pennsylvania's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Jan 1939 to May 1947, Gerlach missed 33 of 784 roll call votes, which is 4.2%. This is worse than the median of 0.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 1947. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1939 Jan-Mar	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jul-Aug	16	1	6.3%	94^th
1939 Oct-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	32	2	6.3%	78^th
1940 Apr-Jun	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Oct-Dec	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jul-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Oct-Dec	15	2	13.3%	92^nd
1942 Jan-Mar	26	1	3.8%	67^th
1942 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Jul-Sep	11	3	27.3%	85^th
1942 Oct-Nov	5	2	40.0%	94^th
1943 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	73^rd
1943 Apr-Jun	49	8	16.3%	94^th
1943 Jul-Sep	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Oct-Dec	12	2	16.7%	78^th
1944 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	84^th
1944 Apr-Jun	32	5	15.6%	94^th
1944 Sep-Sep	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Nov-Dec	7	2	28.6%	81^st
1945 Jan-Mar	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Apr-Jun	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Jul-Sep	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Oct-Dec	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Jan-Mar	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Apr-Jun	53	2	3.8%	97^th
1946 Jul-Aug	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Apr-Jun	9	0	0.0%	0^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