Frelinghuysen was a senator from New Jersey and was a Republican. He served from 1917 to 1923.
![Photo of Sen. Joseph Frelinghuysen [R-NJ, 1917-1923]](/static/legislator-photos/404316-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1917 to Mar 1923, Frelinghuysen missed 474 of 1,541 roll call votes, which is 30.8%. This is on par with the median of 28.8% among the lifetime records of senators 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
