Rep. Walter Forward
Former Representative for Pennsylvania’s 16th District
Forward was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 16th congressional district and was (unknown party). He served from 1823 to 1825.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1821 to 1823.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1823 to Mar 1825, Forward missed 20 of 118 roll call votes, which is 16.9%. This is worse than the median of 12.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1825. 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
