Shelden was the representative for Michigan’s 12th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1901 to 1903.
He was previously the representative for Michigan’s 12th congressional district as a Republican from 1899 to 1901; and the representative for Michigan’s 12th congressional district as a Republican from 1897 to 1899.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1897 to Mar 1903, Shelden missed 210 of 515 roll call votes, which is 40.8%. This is worse than the median of 31.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1903. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
