Schwartz was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 8th congressional district and was an Anti-Lecompton Democrat. He served from 1859 to 1861.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1859 to Jun 1860, Schwartz missed 43 of 270 roll call votes, which is 15.9%. This is better than the median of 24.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1860. 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
