Burke was the representative for Wisconsin’s 2nd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1915 to 1917.
He was previously the representative for Wisconsin’s 2nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1913 to 1915; and the representative for Wisconsin’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1911 to 1913.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Apr 1911 to Mar 1917, Burke missed 129 of 699 roll call votes, which is 18.5%. This is better than the median of 24.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1917. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
