Rep. Joseph Hiester
Former Representative for Pennsylvania’s 7th District
Hiester was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 7th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1819 to 1821.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1817 to 1819; the representative for Pennsylvania’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1815 to 1817; the representative for Pennsylvania’s 3rd congressional district as a Republican from 1803 to 1805; the representative for Pennsylvania’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1801 to 1803; the representative for Pennsylvania’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1799 to 1801; and the representative for Pennsylvania’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1797 to 1799.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Nov 1797 to Dec 1820, Hiester missed 199 of 803 roll call votes, which is 24.8%. This is worse than the median of 14.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1820. 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
