Rep. John Henry Ketcham
Former Representative for New York’s 21st District
Ketcham was the representative for New York’s 21st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1905 to 1907.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 21st congressional district as a Republican from 1903 to 1905; the representative for New York’s 18th congressional district as a Republican from 1901 to 1903; the representative for New York’s 18th congressional district as a Republican from 1899 to 1901; the representative for New York’s 18th congressional district as a Republican from 1897 to 1899; the representative for New York’s 16th congressional district as a Republican from 1891 to 1893; the representative for New York’s 16th congressional district as a Republican from 1889 to 1891; the representative for New York’s 16th congressional district as a Republican from 1887 to 1889; the representative for New York’s 16th congressional district as a Republican from 1885 to 1887; the representative for New York’s 13th congressional district as a Republican from 1883 to 1885; the representative for New York’s 13th congressional district as a Republican from 1881 to 1883; the representative for New York’s 13th congressional district as a Republican from 1877 to 1881; and the representative for New York’s 12th congressional district as a Republican from 1865 to 1873.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1865 to Jun 1906, Ketcham missed 2,238 of 6,201 roll call votes, which is 36.1%. This is on par with the median of 30.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1906. 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