Kunkel was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 16th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1961 to 1966.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district as a Republican from 1945 to 1950; and the representative for Pennsylvania’s 19th congressional district as a Republican from 1939 to 1944.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1939 to Oct 1966, Kunkel missed 52 of 2,037 roll call votes, which is 2.6%. This is better than the median of 7.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1966. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
