Rep. Stephen Dempsey
Former Representative for New York’s 40th District
Dempsey was the representative for New York’s 40th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1927 to 1931.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 40th congressional district as a Republican from 1925 to 1927; the representative for New York’s 40th congressional district as a Republican from 1923 to 1925; and the representative for New York’s 40th congressional district as a Republican from 1915 to 1923.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1915 to Mar 1931, Dempsey missed 602 of 1,592 roll call votes, which is 37.8%. This is much worse 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
