Fort was the representative for Illinois’s 8th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1877 to 1881.
He was previously the representative for Illinois’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from 1875 to 1877; and the representative for Illinois’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from 1873 to 1875.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1873 to Mar 1881, Fort missed 418 of 1,618 roll call votes, which is 25.8%. This is on par with the median of 27.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1881. 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
