Church was the representative for Illinois’s 13th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1949 to 1950.
He was previously the representative for Illinois’s 10th congressional district as a Republican from 1943 to 1948; and the representative for Illinois’s 10th congressional district as a Republican from 1935 to 1940.
![Photo of Rep. Ralph Church [R-IL13, 1949-1950]](/static/legislator-photos/402529-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1935 to Mar 1950, Church missed 4 of 1,314 roll call votes, which is 0.3%. This is better than the median of 3.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1950. 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
