McAndrews was the representative for Illinois’s 9th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1935 to 1940.
He was previously the representative for Illinois’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1915 to 1921; the representative for Illinois’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1913 to 1915; the representative for Illinois’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1903 to 1905; and the representative for Illinois’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1901 to 1903.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1901 to Dec 1940, McAndrews missed 509 of 1,910 roll call votes, which is 26.6%. This is much worse than the median of 7.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1940. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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