May was the representative for Washington’s 4th congressional district and was a Republican. She served from 1959 to 1970.
![Photo of Rep. Catherine May [R-WA4, 1959-1970]](/static/legislator-photos/407291-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1959 to Dec 1970, May missed 237 of 1,966 roll call votes, which is 12.1%. This is worse than the median of 8.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1970. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
