Melvin Maas, former Representative from Minnesota's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1939-1944	Representative	Minnesota's 4^th District
1937-1938	Representative	Minnesota's 4^th District
1935-1936	Representative	Minnesota's 4^th District
1931-1933	Representative	Minnesota's 4^th District
1927-1931	Representative	Minnesota's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1927 to Dec 1944, Maas missed 137 of 1,128 roll call votes, which is 12.1%. This is worse than the median of 4.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1944. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1927-May 1928	53	13	24.5%	81^st
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	16	9	56.3%	97^th
1929 Apr-Jun	12	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	8	1	12.5%	29^th
1930 Mar-May	25	3	12.0%	47^th
1930 Jun-Jul	17	11	64.7%	96^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	33	3	9.1%	34^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	15	3	20.0%	81^st
1932 Mar-May	37	5	13.5%	74^th
1932 Jun-Jul	30	3	10.0%	40^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	36	9	25.0%	94^th
1935 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	85^th
1935 Apr-Jun	40	1	2.5%	32^nd
1935 Jul-Aug	45	10	22.2%	93^rd
1936 Jan-Jun	72	8	11.1%	32^nd
1937 Jan-Mar	16	2	12.5%	66^th
1937 Apr-Jun	38	14	36.8%	92^nd
1937 Jul-Aug	22	13	59.1%	93^rd
1937 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1938 Jan-Jun	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jul-Aug	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Oct-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	32	2	6.3%	75^th
1940 Apr-Jun	55	1	1.8%	89^th
1940 Jul-Sep	27	1	3.7%	60^th
1940 Oct-Dec	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jul-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Oct-Dec	15	1	6.7%	80^th
1942 Jan-Mar	26	3	11.5%	98^th
1942 Apr-Jun	30	2	6.7%	66^th
1942 Jul-Sep	11	8	72.7%	100^th
1942 Oct-Nov	5	3	60.0%	98^th
1943 Jan-Mar	16	2	12.5%	89^th
1943 Apr-Jun	49	1	2.0%	41^st
1943 Jul-Sep	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Oct-Dec	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Jan-Mar	21	1	4.8%	65^th
1944 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Sep-Sep	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Nov-Dec	7	3	42.9%	81^st

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