Bates was the representative for Massachusetts’s 6th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1949 to 1970.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1949 to Jun 1969, Bates missed 87 of 2,360 roll call votes, which is 3.7%. This is better than the median of 8.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1969. 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
