Rep. Fred Gilchrist
Former Representative for Iowa’s 6th District
Gilchrist was the representative for Iowa’s 6th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1943 to 1944.
He was previously the representative for Iowa’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from 1933 to 1942; and the representative for Iowa’s 10th congressional district as a Republican from 1931 to 1933.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1931 to Dec 1944, Gilchrist missed 137 of 1,170 roll call votes, which is 11.7%. This is worse than the median of 7.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1944. 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
