O’Brien was the representative for Michigan’s 13th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1949 to 1954.
He was previously the representative for Michigan’s 13th congressional district as a Democrat from 1941 to 1946; and the representative for Michigan’s 13th congressional district as a Democrat from 1937 to 1938.
![Photo of Rep. George O’Brien [D-MI13, 1949-1954]](/data/photos/408260-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1937 to Aug 1954, O’Brien missed 37 of 1,299 roll call votes, which is 2.8%. This is on par with the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 1954. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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