Gifford was the representative for South Dakota and was a Republican. He served from 1889 to 1891.
He was previously the representative from Dakota Territory as a Republican from 1887 to 1889; and the representative from Dakota Territory as a Republican from 1885 to 1887.
![Photo of Rep. Oscar Gifford [R-SD-1, 1889-1891]](/static/legislator-photos/404537-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1889 to Mar 1891, Gifford missed 306 of 587 roll call votes, which is 52.1%. This is much worse than the median of 33.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1891. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
