Elliott was the representative for Indiana’s 6th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1927 to 1931.
He was previously the representative for Indiana’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1925 to 1927; the representative for Indiana’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1923 to 1925; and the representative for Indiana’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1917 to 1923.
![Photo of Rep. Richard Elliott [R-IN6, 1927-1931]](/static/legislator-photos/403818-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jul 1917 to Mar 1931, Elliott missed 114 of 1,391 roll call votes, which is 8.2%. This is better than the median of 17.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1931. 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
