Ritter was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 9th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1845 to 1847.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1843 to 1845.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1843 to Mar 1847, Ritter missed 147 of 1,239 roll call votes, which is 11.9%. This is better than the median of 24.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1847. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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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