Rep. Edgar Kiess

Former Representative from Pennsylvania’s 16^th District, Republican

Kiess, a Republican, was the representative for Pennsylvania's 16^th congressional district from 1927 to 1931.

He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania's 16^th congressional district (1925-1927); the representative for Pennsylvania's 16^th congressional district (1923-1925); the representative for Pennsylvania's 15^th congressional district (1915-1923); and the representative for Pennsylvania's 15^th congressional district (1913-1915).

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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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1913 Apr-Jul	22	17	77.3%	82^nd
1913 Aug-Nov	43	34	79.1%	89^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	10	41.7%	92^nd
1914 Mar-May	34	13	38.2%	80^th
1914 Jun-Aug	62	51	82.3%	83^rd
1914 Sep-Oct	29	18	62.1%	78^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	67	26	38.8%	85^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	16	6	37.5%	87^th
1916 Mar-May	53	33	62.3%	98^th
1916 Jun-Aug	23	13	56.5%	91^st
1916 Sep-Sep	3	3	100.0%	77^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	62	11	17.7%	72^nd
1917 Apr-Jun	43	16	37.2%	88^th
1917 Jul-Sep	10	6	60.0%	88^th
1917 Oct-Oct	4	4	100.0%	84^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	6	17.6%	58^th
1918 Mar-May	65	16	24.6%	60^th
1918 Jun-Aug	33	24	72.7%	94^th
1918 Sep-Oct	14	12	85.7%	89^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	63	36	57.1%	96^th
1919 May-Jul	62	31	50.0%	87^th
1919 Aug-Oct	52	41	78.8%	92^nd
1919 Nov-Nov	16	8	50.0%	74^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	39	10	25.6%	60^th
1920 Mar-May	70	34	48.6%	84^th
1920 Jun-Jun	8	7	87.5%	87^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	92	24	26.1%	77^th
1921 Apr-Jun	58	39	67.2%	97^th
1921 Jul-Aug	48	31	64.6%	89^th
1921 Oct-Nov	29	23	79.3%	95^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	48	14	29.2%	55^th
1922 Mar-May	47	24	51.1%	84^th
1922 Jun-Aug	54	48	88.9%	93^rd
1922 Sep-Sep	13	11	84.6%	80^th
1922 Nov-Nov	5	2	40.0%	84^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	60	32	53.3%	86^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1924 Mar-May	85	20	23.5%	76^th
1924 Jun-Jun	10	2	20.0%	70^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	54	10	18.5%	92^nd
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	22	4	18.2%	80^th
1926 Mar-May	37	7	18.9%	76^th
1926 Jun-Jul	22	4	18.2%	73^rd
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	33	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	54	20	37.0%	85^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	18	2	11.1%	28^th
1929 Apr-Jun	14	3	21.4%	68^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	9	2	22.2%	48^th
1930 Mar-May	26	13	50.0%	89^th
1930 Jun-Jul	21	10	47.6%	79^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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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