Rep. Franklin Lichtenwalter
Former Representative for Pennsylvania’s 8th District
Lichtenwalter was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 8th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1947 to 1950.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Nov 1947 to Jan 1951, Lichtenwalter missed 40 of 360 roll call votes, which is 11.1%. This is much worse than the median of 3.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1951. 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
