Washington Whitthorne, former Representative from Tennessee's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1889-1891	Representative	Tennessee's 7^th District
1887-1889	Representative	Tennessee's 7^th District
1886-1887	Senator	Tennessee
1881-1883	Representative	Tennessee's 7^th District
1877-1881	Representative	Tennessee's 7^th District
1875-1877	Representative	Tennessee's 7^th District
1873-1875	Representative	Tennessee's 6^th District
1871-1873	Representative	Tennessee's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Feb 1886 to Mar 1887, Whitthorne missed 37 of 353 roll call votes, which is 10.5%. This is better than the median of 28.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1887. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1886 Apr-Jul	203	17	8.4%	12^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	2	16.7%	33^rd
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	137	18	13.1%	18^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