Compton was the representative for Maryland’s 5th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1893 to 1895.
He was previously the representative for Maryland’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1891 to 1893; the representative for Maryland’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1889 to 1891; the representative for Maryland’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1887 to 1889; and the representative for Maryland’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1885 to 1887.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1885 to May 1894, Compton missed 724 of 1,281 roll call votes, which is 56.5%. This is worse than the median of 37.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 1894. 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
