Burke was the representative for South Dakota’s 2nd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1913 to 1915.
He was previously the representative for South Dakota as a Republican from 1909 to 1913; the representative for South Dakota as a Republican from 1905 to 1907; the representative for South Dakota as a Republican from 1903 to 1905; the representative for South Dakota as a Republican from 1901 to 1903; and the representative for South Dakota as a Republican from 1899 to 1901.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1899 to Mar 1915, Burke missed 304 of 1,297 roll call votes, which is 23.4%. This is better than the median of 32.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1915. 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
