McDonald was the representative for New Jersey’s 7th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1891 to 1893.
![Photo of Rep. Edward McDonald [D-NJ7, 1891-1893]](/static/legislator-photos/407409-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1891 to Aug 1892, McDonald missed 133 of 223 roll call votes, which is 59.6%. This is much worse than the median of 34.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 1892. 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.
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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
