Marsh was the representative for Illinois’s 14th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1905 to 1907.
He was previously the representative for Illinois’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1903 to 1905; the representative for Illinois’s 15th congressional district as a Republican from 1899 to 1901; the representative for Illinois’s 15th congressional district as a Republican from 1895 to 1899; the representative for Illinois’s 11th congressional district as a Republican from 1893 to 1895; the representative for Illinois’s 10th congressional district as a Republican from 1881 to 1883; and the representative for Illinois’s 10th congressional district as a Republican from 1877 to 1881.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Oct 1877 to Mar 1905, Marsh missed 622 of 2,119 roll call votes, which is 29.4%. This is on par with the median of 29.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1905. 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
