Rep. Leo O’Brien
Former Representative for New York’s 29th District
O’Brien was the representative for New York’s 29th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1963 to 1966.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 30th congressional district as a Democrat from 1953 to 1962; and the representative for New York’s 32nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1951 to 1952.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Apr 1952 to Oct 1966, O’Brien missed 150 of 1,579 roll call votes, which is 9.5%. This is on par with 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, 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
