Fitzgerald was the representative for Massachusetts’s 10th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1919 to 1921.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1899 to 1901; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1895 to 1899.
![Photo of Rep. John Francis Fitzgerald [D-MA10, 1919-1921]](/static/legislator-photos/404119-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1895 to Nov 1919, Fitzgerald missed 288 of 602 roll call votes, which is 47.8%. This is much worse than the median of 25.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1919. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
