Martin was the representative for Massachusetts’s 10th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1963 to 1966.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1933 to 1962; the representative for Massachusetts’s 15th congressional district as a Republican from 1931 to 1933; the representative for Massachusetts’s 15th congressional district as a Republican from 1927 to 1931; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 15th congressional district as a Republican from 1925 to 1927.
![Photo of Rep. Joseph Martin [R-MA10, 1963-1966]](/static/legislator-photos/407212-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1925 to Oct 1966, Martin missed 362 of 3,605 roll call votes, which is 10.0%. This is worse than the median of 7.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1966. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
