Kelsey was the representative for New York’s 25th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1867 to 1871.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 28th congressional district as a Republican from 1857 to 1859; and the representative for New York’s 28th congressional district as an Ind. Republican-Democrat from 1855 to 1857.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1855 to Mar 1871, Kelsey missed 556 of 2,628 roll call votes, which is 21.2%. This is on par with the median of 25.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1871. 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
