Fordney was the representative for Michigan’s 8th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1915 to 1923.
He was previously the representative for Michigan’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from 1907 to 1915; the representative for Michigan’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from 1905 to 1907; the representative for Michigan’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from 1903 to 1905; the representative for Michigan’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from 1901 to 1903; and the representative for Michigan’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from 1899 to 1901.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1899 to Mar 1923, Fordney missed 1,112 of 2,733 roll call votes, which is 40.7%. This is worse 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
