Rep. Augustus Cutler
Former Representative for New Jersey’s 5th District
Cutler was the representative for New Jersey’s 5th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1877 to 1879.
He was previously the representative for New Jersey’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1875 to 1877.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1875 to Mar 1879, Cutler missed 38 of 705 roll call votes, which is 5.4%. This is better than the median of 22.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1879. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, 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
