Rep. Victor Wickersham [D-OK6, 1961-1964], former Representative for Oklahoma's 6th Congressional District - GovTrack.us
Former Representative for Oklahoma’s 6th District
Wickersham was the representative for Oklahoma’s 6th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1961 to 1964.
He was previously the representative for Oklahoma’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1953 to 1956; the representative for Oklahoma’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1949 to 1952; and the representative for Oklahoma’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1941 to 1946.
![Photo of Rep. Victor Wickersham [D-OK6, 1961-1964]](https://www.govtrack.us/static/legislator-photos/411597-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Apr 1941 to Oct 1964, Wickersham missed 36 of 1,741 roll call votes, which is 2.1%. This is on par with the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1964. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absences, 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo