William Eaton, former Representative from Connecticut's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1883-1885	Representative	Connecticut's 1^st District
1875-1881	Senator	Connecticut

Voting Record

From Dec 1883 to Mar 1885, Eaton missed 102 of 332 roll call votes, which is 30.7%. This is worse than the median of 28.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1885. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	33	9	27.3%	68^th
1884 Mar-May	70	14	20.0%	33^rd
1884 Jun-Jul	83	30	36.1%	51^st
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	49	33.6%	59^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