Lemke was the representative for North Dakota’s at-large district and was a Republican. He served from 1943 to 1950.
He was previously the representative for North Dakota’s at-large district as a Republican from 1933 to 1940.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1933 to May 1950, Lemke missed 90 of 1,480 roll call votes, which is 6.1%. This is much worse than the median of 3.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 1950. 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
