Robert Hunter, former Senator from Virginia

Dates	Title	Representing
1859-1861	Senator	Virginia
1853-1859	Senator	Virginia
1847-1853	Senator	Virginia
1845-1847	Representative	Virginia's 8^th District
1839-1843	Representative	Virginia's 9^th District
1837-1839	Representative	Virginia's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1847 to Mar 1861, Hunter missed 739 of 3,519 roll call votes, which is 21.0%. This is worse than the median of 20.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	82	5	6.1%	0^th
1848 Apr-Jul	116	48	41.4%	67^th
1848 Aug-Aug	66	26	39.4%	88^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	80	17	21.3%	38^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	5	22.7%	56^th
1850 Mar-May	64	5	7.8%	11^th
1850 Jun-Aug	154	19	12.3%	22^nd
1850 Sep-Sep	108	33	30.6%	50^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	39	27.7%	38^th
1849 Mar-Mar	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	10	26.3%	25^th
1852 Apr-Jul	80	18	22.5%	25^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	16	17.6%	17^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	124	24	19.4%	33^rd
1851 Mar-Mar	22	11	50.0%	67^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	50	15	30.0%	46^th
1854 Apr-Jul	229	45	19.7%	31^st
1854 Aug-Aug	64	24	37.5%	62^nd
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	23	12.9%	14^th
1853 Mar-Apr	22	5	22.7%	25^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	3	9.4%	11^th
1856 Apr-Jul	131	26	19.8%	26^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	21	16.9%	32^nd
1856 Aug-Aug	16	2	12.5%	21^st
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	14	9.7%	16^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	11	19.3%	57^th
1858 Mar-May	216	51	23.6%	57^th
1858 Jun-Jun	116	13	11.2%	7^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	267	38	14.2%	20^th
1857 Mar-Mar	29	7	24.1%	52^nd
1858 Jun-Jun	9	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	5	11.6%	32^nd
1860 Mar-May	158	36	22.8%	49^th
1860 Jun-Jun	131	30	22.9%	45^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	229	62	27.1%	68^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	2	6.3%	25^th
1860 Jun-Jun	5	2	40.0%	69^th
1861 Mar-Mar	39	28	71.8%	79^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