Rep. John Clark Ketcham

Former Representative for Michigan’s 4^th District

Ketcham was the representative for Michigan’s 4^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1931 to 1933.

He was previously the representative for Michigan’s 4^th congressional district as a Republican from 1927 to 1931; the representative for Michigan’s 4^th congressional district as a Republican from 1925 to 1927; the representative for Michigan’s 4^th congressional district as a Republican from 1923 to 1925; and the representative for Michigan’s 4^th congressional district as a Republican from 1921 to 1923.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Apr 1921 to Mar 1933, Ketcham missed 112 of 953 roll call votes, which is 11.8%. This is better than the median of 16.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1933. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1921 Apr-Jun	58	6	10.3%	36^th
1921 Jul-Aug	48	11	22.9%	52^nd
1921 Oct-Nov	29	3	10.3%	30^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	48	6	12.5%	23^rd
1922 Mar-May	47	1	2.1%	2^nd
1922 Jun-Aug	54	26	48.1%	62^nd
1922 Sep-Sep	13	1	7.7%	16^th
1922 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	60	7	11.7%	27^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1924 Mar-May	85	1	1.2%	6^th
1924 Jun-Jun	10	1	10.0%	48^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	54	1	1.9%	25^th
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	22	1	4.5%	24^th
1926 Mar-May	37	1	2.7%	25^th
1926 Jun-Jul	22	1	4.5%	32^nd
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	33	1	3.0%	39^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	54	4	7.4%	24^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1929 Apr-Jun	14	3	21.4%	69^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1930 Mar-May	26	4	15.4%	38^th
1930 Jun-Jul	21	15	71.4%	91^st
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	33	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	17	2	11.8%	39^th
1932 Mar-May	39	2	5.1%	28^th
1932 Jun-Jul	30	13	43.3%	79^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	37	1	2.7%	8^th

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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