Townsend was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 6th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1875 to 1877.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1873 to 1875; and the representative for Pennsylvania’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1869 to 1873.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1869 to Mar 1877, Townsend missed 339 of 1,953 roll call votes, which is 17.4%. This is better than the median of 26.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1877. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
