Graham was the representative for Illinois’s 21st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1909 to 1915.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1909 to Mar 1915, Graham missed 216 of 742 roll call votes, which is 29.1%. This is on par with the median of 32.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1915. 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
