Kasson was the representative for Iowa’s 7th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1883 to 1885.
He was previously the representative for Iowa’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1881 to 1883; the representative for Iowa’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1875 to 1877; the representative for Iowa’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1873 to 1875; the representative for Iowa’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1865 to 1867; and the representative for Iowa’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1863 to 1865.
![Photo of Rep. John Kasson [R-IA7, 1883-1885]](/static/legislator-photos/406189-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1863 to Jul 1884, Kasson missed 882 of 2,552 roll call votes, which is 34.6%. This is worse than the median of 29.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jul 1884. 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
