Rep. Joseph Walsh
Former Representative for Massachusetts’s 16th District
Walsh was the representative for Massachusetts’s 16th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1915 to 1923.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1915 to Jun 1922, Walsh missed 144 of 1,015 roll call votes, which is 14.2%. This is better than the median of 27.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1922. 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
