Edge was a senator from New Jersey and was a Republican. He served from 1925 to 1929.
He was previously a senator from New Jersey as a Republican from 1919 to 1925.
![Photo of Sen. Walter Edge [R-NJ, 1925-1929]](/static/legislator-photos/403739-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From May 1919 to Nov 1929, Edge missed 717 of 1,919 roll call votes, which is 37.4%. This is much worse than the median of 22.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Nov 1929. 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
