Kiess was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 16th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1927 to 1931.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 16th congressional district as a Republican from 1925 to 1927; the representative for Pennsylvania’s 16th congressional district as a Republican from 1923 to 1925; the representative for Pennsylvania’s 15th congressional district as a Republican from 1915 to 1923; and the representative for Pennsylvania’s 15th congressional district as a Republican from 1913 to 1915.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Apr 1913 to Jul 1930, Kiess missed 831 of 1,840 roll call votes, which is 45.2%. This is much worse than the median of 17.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jul 1930. 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
