Wright was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 14th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1903 to 1905.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 15th congressional district as a Republican from 1901 to 1903; and the representative for Pennsylvania’s 15th congressional district as a Republican from 1899 to 1901.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1899 to Mar 1905, Wright missed 158 of 419 roll call votes, which is 37.7%. This is worse than 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 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
