Boyd was the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1853 to 1855.
He was previously the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1851 to 1853; the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1849 to 1851; the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1847 to 1849; the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1845 to 1847; the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1843 to 1845; the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1839 to 1843; and the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district as a Jackson from 1835 to 1837.
![Photo of Rep. Linn Boyd [D-KY1, 1853-1855]](/static/legislator-photos/401679-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1835 to Mar 1855, Boyd missed 1,971 of 5,535 roll call votes, which is 35.6%. This is worse than the median of 31.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1855. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
