McLaughlin was the representative for Pennsylvania and was a Republican. He served from 1921 to 1923.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania as a Republican from 1917 to 1919.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Apr 1917 to Mar 1923, McLaughlin missed 303 of 628 roll call votes, which is 48.2%. This is much 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
