Cessna was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 16th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1873 to 1875.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 16th congressional district as a Republican from 1869 to 1871.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1869 to Mar 1875, Cessna missed 153 of 1,108 roll call votes, which is 13.8%. This is better than the median of 22.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1875. 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
