Rep. Charles Vursell
Former Representative for Illinois’s 23rd District
Vursell was the representative for Illinois’s 23rd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1953 to 1958.
He was previously the representative for Illinois’s 24th congressional district as a Republican from 1949 to 1952; and the representative for Illinois’s 23rd congressional district as a Republican from 1943 to 1948.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1943 to Aug 1958, Vursell missed 25 of 1,495 roll call votes, which is 1.7%. This is on par with the median of 2.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 1958. 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