Dickstein was the representative for New York’s 19th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1945 to 1946.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1931 to 1944; the representative for New York’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1927 to 1931; the representative for New York’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1925 to 1927; and the representative for New York’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1923 to 1925.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1923 to Dec 1945, Dickstein missed 405 of 1,738 roll call votes, which is 23.3%. This is much worse than the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1945. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
