Draper was the representative for New York’s 22nd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1907 to 1913.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 22nd congressional district as a Republican from 1905 to 1907; the representative for New York’s 22nd congressional district as a Republican from 1903 to 1905; and the representative for New York’s 19th congressional district as a Republican from 1901 to 1903.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1901 to Mar 1913, Draper missed 298 of 1,179 roll call votes, which is 25.3%. This is on par with the median of 28.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1913. 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
