Cannon was the representative for Illinois’s 18th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1915 to 1923.
He was previously the representative for Illinois’s 18th congressional district as a Republican from 1907 to 1913; the representative for Illinois’s 18th congressional district as a Republican from 1905 to 1907; the representative for Illinois’s 18th congressional district as a Republican from 1903 to 1905; the representative for Illinois’s 12th congressional district as a Republican from 1901 to 1903; the representative for Illinois’s 12th congressional district as a Republican from 1899 to 1901; the representative for Illinois’s 12th congressional district as a Republican from 1895 to 1899; the representative for Illinois’s 15th congressional district as a Republican from 1893 to 1895; the representative for Illinois’s 15th congressional district as a Republican from 1889 to 1891; the representative for Illinois’s 15th congressional district as a Republican from 1887 to 1889; the representative for Illinois’s 15th congressional district as a Republican from 1885 to 1887; the representative for Illinois’s 15th congressional district as a Republican from 1883 to 1885; the representative for Illinois’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1881 to 1883; the representative for Illinois’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1877 to 1881; the representative for Illinois’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1875 to 1877; and the representative for Illinois’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1873 to 1875.
![Photo of Rep. Joseph Cannon [R-IL18, 1915-1923]](/static/legislator-photos/402272-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1873 to Mar 1923, Cannon missed 1,263 of 6,246 roll call votes, which is 20.2%. This is better than the median of 27.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1923. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
