Forand was the representative for Rhode Island’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat. He served from 1941 to 1960.
He was previously the representative for Rhode Island’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1937 to 1938.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1937 to Aug 1960, Forand missed 58 of 1,984 roll call votes, which is 2.9%. This is on par with the median of 2.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 1960. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- 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
