Rep. Isaac Sherwood
Former Representative for Ohio’s 9th District
Sherwood was the representative for Ohio’s 9th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1923 to 1925.
He was previously the representative for Ohio’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from Dec 6, 1915 to Mar 3, 1921; the representative for Ohio’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from Dec 2, 1907 to Mar 3, 1915; and the representative for Ohio’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from Dec 1, 1873 to Mar 3, 1875.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1873 to Mar 1925, Sherwood missed 677 of 2,469 roll call votes, which is 27.4%. This is worse than the median of 19.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1925. 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
