Butler was the representative for South Carolina’s 4th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1839 to 1843.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1839 to Aug 1842, Butler missed 876 of 1,551 roll call votes, which is 56.5%. This is much worse than the median of 26.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 1842. 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
