Mumma was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 16th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1953 to 1962.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district as a Republican from 1951 to 1952.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1951 to Jan 1961, Mumma missed 13 of 853 roll call votes, which is 1.5%. This is on par with the median of 2.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1961. 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
