Helgesen was the representative for North Dakota’s 1st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1915 to 1919.
He was previously the representative for North Dakota’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1913 to 1915; and the representative for North Dakota as a Republican from 1911 to 1913.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Apr 1911 to Apr 1917, Helgesen missed 154 of 704 roll call votes, which is 21.9%. This is on par with the median of 25.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Apr 1917. 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
