Gamble was the representative for New York’s 26th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1953 to 1956.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 28th congressional district as a Republican from 1945 to 1952; and the representative for New York’s 25th congressional district as a Republican from 1937 to 1944.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1937 to Jul 1956, Gamble missed 75 of 1,750 roll call votes, which is 4.3%. This is worse 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 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
