John Schafer, former Representative from Wisconsin's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1939-1941	Representative	Wisconsin's 4^th District
1931-1933	Representative	Wisconsin's 4^th District
1927-1931	Representative	Wisconsin's 4^th District
1925-1927	Representative	Wisconsin's 4^th District
1923-1925	Representative	Wisconsin's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1923 to Dec 1940, Schafer missed 33 of 796 roll call votes, which is 4.1%. This is better than the median of 4.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1940. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	22	1	4.5%	70^th
1924 Mar-May	84	9	10.7%	60^th
1924 Jun-Jun	10	1	10.0%	44^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	52	14	26.9%	98^th
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Mar-May	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Jun-Jul	22	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	33	1	3.0%	44^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	53	1	1.9%	14^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1929 Apr-Jun	12	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1930 Mar-May	26	1	3.8%	21^st
1930 Jun-Jul	21	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	33	2	6.1%	31^st
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	16	2	12.5%	62^nd
1932 Mar-May	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1932 Jun-Jul	30	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	37	1	2.7%	17^th
1939 Jan-Mar	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jul-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Oct-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Apr-Jun	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Oct-Dec	8	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