Rep. Gibson Atherton

Former Representative for Ohio’s 13^th District

Atherton was the representative for Ohio’s 13^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1881 to 1883.

He was previously the representative for Ohio’s 14^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1879 to 1881.

Bioguide

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1879 to Mar 1883, Atherton missed 303 of 788 roll call votes, which is 38.5%. This is worse than the median of 28.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1883. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1879 Mar-Jul	137	43	31.4%	60^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	35	5	14.3%	32^nd
1880 Mar-May	116	40	34.5%	58^th
1880 Jun-Jun	32	15	46.9%	64^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	119	13	10.9%	11^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	75	47	62.7%	94^th
1882 Apr-Jul	167	107	64.1%	78^th
1882 Aug-Aug	7	2	28.6%	29^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	100	31	31.0%	58^th

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources