McCormack was the representative for Massachusetts’s 9th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1963 to 1970.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1931 to 1962; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1927 to 1931.
![Photo of Rep. John McCormack [D-MA9, 1963-1970]](/static/legislator-photos/407369-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1928 to Jan 1969, McCormack missed 110 of 2,930 roll call votes, which is 3.8%. This is better than the median of 8.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1969. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
