Burnside was the representative for West Virginia’s 4th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1955 to 1956.
He was previously the representative for West Virginia’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1949 to 1952.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1949 to Jul 1956, Burnside missed 6 of 605 roll call votes, which is 1.0%. This is better than the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jul 1956. 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
