Sterling was the representative for Illinois’s 17th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1915 to 1919.
He was previously the representative for Illinois’s 17th congressional district as a Republican from 1907 to 1913; the representative for Illinois’s 17th congressional district as a Republican from 1905 to 1907; and the representative for Illinois’s 17th congressional district as a Republican from 1903 to 1905.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Nov 1903 to Oct 1918, Sterling missed 237 of 1,354 roll call votes, which is 17.5%. This is better than the median of 25.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1918. 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
