Carter was the representative for California’s 6th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1931 to 1944.
He was previously the representative for California’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1927 to 1931; and the representative for California’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1925 to 1927.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1925 to Dec 1944, Carter missed 176 of 1,459 roll call votes, which is 12.1%. This is worse than the median of 7.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1944. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
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
