Orth was the representative for Indiana’s 9th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1881 to 1883.
He was previously the representative for Indiana’s 9th congressional district as a Republican from 1879 to 1881; the representative for Indiana as a Republican from 1873 to 1875; the representative for Indiana’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1869 to 1871; the representative for Indiana’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from 1865 to 1869; and the representative for Indiana’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from 1863 to 1865.
![Photo of Rep. Godlove Orth [R-IN9, 1881-1883]](/static/legislator-photos/408363-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1863 to Dec 1882, Orth missed 730 of 3,735 roll call votes, which is 19.5%. This is better than the median of 28.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1882. 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
