Rep. Henry Cassel
Former Representative for Pennsylvania’s 9th District
Cassel was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 9th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1907 to 1909.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 9th congressional district as a Republican from 1905 to 1907; the representative for Pennsylvania’s 9th congressional district as a Republican from 1903 to 1905; and the representative for Pennsylvania’s 10th congressional district as a Republican from 1901 to 1903.
Misconduct
Cassel faced an allegation of fraud related to the construction of the Pennsylvania State Capitol. In 1909, he was convicted and was not re-elected.
| 1909 | Convicted and was not re-elected. |
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1901 to Mar 1909, Cassel missed 134 of 456 roll call votes, which is 29.4%. This is on par with the median of 30.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1909. 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
