Ruth Pratt, former Representative from New York's 17th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1931-1933	Representative	New York's 17^th District
1929-1931	Representative	New York's 17^th District

Voting Record

From May 1929 to Mar 1933, Pratt missed 50 of 206 roll call votes, which is 24.3%. 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
1929 Apr-Jun	11	5	45.5%	94^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	6	1	16.7%	53^rd
1930 Mar-May	26	3	11.5%	35^th
1930 Jun-Jul	20	9	45.0%	82^nd
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	30	5	16.7%	71^st
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	16	4	25.0%	81^st
1932 Mar-May	37	8	21.6%	83^rd
1932 Jun-Jul	27	5	18.5%	60^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	33	10	30.3%	84^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo