Robert Hitt, former Representative from Illinois's 13th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1905-1907	Representative	Illinois's 13^th District
1903-1905	Representative	Illinois's 13^th District
1901-1903	Representative	Illinois's 9^th District
1899-1901	Representative	Illinois's 9^th District
1895-1899	Representative	Illinois's 9^th District
1893-1895	Representative	Illinois's 6^th District
1891-1893	Representative	Illinois's 6^th District
1889-1891	Representative	Illinois's 6^th District
1887-1889	Representative	Illinois's 6^th District
1885-1887	Representative	Illinois's 6^th District
1883-1885	Representative	Illinois's 6^th District
1881-1883	Representative	Illinois's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1882 to Jun 1906, Hitt missed 1,065 of 3,141 roll call votes, which is 33.9%. This is worse than the median of 29.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1906. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	99	19	19.2%	27^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	32	4	12.5%	14^th
1884 Mar-May	70	10	14.3%	0^th
1884 Jun-Jul	83	23	27.7%	7^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	49	33.6%	50^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	35	5	14.3%	33^rd
1886 Apr-Jul	153	28	18.3%	28^th
1886 Aug-Aug	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	102	18	17.6%	28^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	38	12	31.6%	50^th
1888 Mar-May	105	22	21.0%	29^th
1888 Jun-Aug	47	18	38.3%	29^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	4	25.0%	0^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	29	25.7%	21^st
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	70	3	4.3%	23^rd
1890 Mar-May	109	22	20.2%	33^rd
1890 Jun-Aug	169	16	9.5%	15^th
1890 Sep-Sep	53	2	3.8%	7^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	75	43.4%	79^th
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	57	25	43.9%	61^st
1892 Apr-Jul	157	70	44.6%	46^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	78	20	25.6%	29^th
1893 Aug-Nov	66	38	57.6%	70^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	97	72.9%	53^rd
1894 Apr-Jul	101	55	54.5%	43^rd
1894 Aug-Aug	20	6	30.0%	19^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	9	18.8%	43^rd
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	18	3	16.7%	48^th
1896 Mar-May	54	23	42.6%	59^th
1896 Jun-Jun	28	28	100.0%	93^rd
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	39	62.9%	88^th
1897 Mar-Jul	37	4	10.8%	13^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	29	5	17.2%	30^th
1898 Mar-May	53	31	58.5%	97^th
1898 Jun-Jul	26	8	30.8%	50^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	6	16.2%	21^st
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	19	7	36.8%	69^th
1900 Mar-May	49	17	34.7%	68^th
1900 Jun-Jun	16	3	18.8%	51^st
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	21	33.9%	60^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	17	5	29.4%	73^rd
1902 Mar-May	22	4	18.2%	16^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	10	35.7%	57^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	30	26.5%	57^th
1903 Nov-Nov	5	1	20.0%	65^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	26	53.1%	83^rd
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	15	46.9%	84^th
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	25	23	92.0%	98^th
1906 Mar-May	57	57	100.0%	99^th
1906 Jun-Jun	20	20	100.0%	95^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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