Rep. Daniel Griffin

Former Representative for New York’s 8^th District

Griffin was the representative for New York’s 8^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1915 to 1919.

He was previously the representative for New York’s 8^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1913 to 1915.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Apr 1913 to Dec 1917, Griffin missed 261 of 502 roll call votes, which is 52.0%. This is much worse than the median of 25.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1917. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1913 Apr-Jul	22	15	68.2%	75^th
1913 Aug-Nov	43	34	79.1%	85^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	12	50.0%	86^th
1914 Mar-May	34	20	58.8%	91^st
1914 Jun-Aug	62	55	88.7%	91^st
1914 Sep-Oct	29	14	48.3%	67^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	67	34	50.7%	86^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	16	4	25.0%	68^th
1916 Mar-May	53	18	34.0%	80^th
1916 Jun-Aug	23	9	39.1%	70^th
1916 Sep-Sep	3	1	33.3%	50^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	62	19	30.6%	82^nd
1917 Apr-Jun	43	11	25.6%	68^th
1917 Jul-Sep	10	6	60.0%	80^th
1917 Oct-Oct	4	4	100.0%	73^rd
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	7	5	71.4%	97^th

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources