Van Aernam was the representative for New York’s 33rd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1881 to 1883.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 33rd congressional district as a Republican from 1879 to 1881; and the representative for New York’s 31st congressional district as a Republican from 1865 to 1869.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1865 to Mar 1883, Van Aernam missed 480 of 2,118 roll call votes, which is 22.7%. This is better than the median of 28.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1883. 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
