Rep. Melvin McLaughlin
Former Representative for Nebraska’s 4th District
McLaughlin was the representative for Nebraska’s 4th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1925 to 1927.
He was previously the representative for Nebraska’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1923 to 1925; and the representative for Nebraska’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1919 to 1923.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From May 1919 to Mar 1927, McLaughlin missed 164 of 994 roll call votes, which is 16.5%. This is on par with the median of 15.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1927. 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
