Beshlin was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 28th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1917 to 1919.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1917 to Mar 1919, Beshlin missed 34 of 209 roll call votes, which is 16.3%. This is better than the median of 25.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1919. 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
