Buchanan was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 30th congressional district and was a Democrat. She served from 1953 to 1956.
She was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 33rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1951 to 1952.
![Photo of Rep. Vera Buchanan [D-PA30, 1953-1956]](/static/legislator-photos/401959-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Aug 1951 to Aug 1955, Buchanan missed 13 of 330 roll call votes, which is 3.9%. This is worse than the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 1955. 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
