Rep. Hamilton Fish
Former Representative for New York’s 26th District
Fish was the representative for New York’s 26th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1931 to 1944.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 26th congressional district as a Republican from 1927 to 1931; the representative for New York’s 26th congressional district as a Republican from 1925 to 1927; the representative for New York’s 26th congressional district as a Republican from 1923 to 1925; and the representative for New York’s 26th congressional district as a Republican from 1919 to 1923.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1920 to Dec 1944, Fish missed 474 of 2,092 roll call votes, which is 22.7%. This is much 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
