Rep. Samuel Hooper

Former Representative from Massachusetts’s 4^th District, Republican

Hooper, a Republican, was the representative for Massachusetts's 4^th congressional district from 1873 to 1875.

He was previously the representative for Massachusetts's 4^th congressional district (1865-1873); the representative for Massachusetts's 4^th congressional district (1863-1865); and the representative for Massachusetts's 5^th congressional district (1861-1863).

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From Dec 1861 to Feb 1875, Hooper missed 1,241 of 4,056 roll call votes, which is 30.6%. This is worse than the median of 22.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1875. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	75	9	12.0%	20^th
1862 Mar-May	114	31	27.2%	50^th
1862 Jun-Jul	122	44	36.1%	68^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	272	64	23.5%	32^nd
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	130	17	13.1%	35^th
1864 Mar-May	170	45	26.5%	58^th
1864 Jun-Jul	129	35	27.1%	65^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	171	49	28.7%	65^th
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	105	16	15.2%	62^nd
1866 Mar-May	142	70	49.3%	92^nd
1866 Jun-Jul	142	43	30.3%	73^rd
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	224	54	24.1%	54^th
1867 Mar-Mar	61	11	18.0%	52^nd
1867 Jul-Jul	35	8	22.9%	70^th
1867 Nov-Nov	5	2	40.0%	77^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	142	37	26.1%	78^th
1868 Mar-May	126	34	27.0%	30^th
1868 Jun-Jul	150	63	42.0%	77^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	1	100.0%	46^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	197	75	38.1%	79^th
1869 Mar-Apr	83	26	31.3%	80^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	71	23	32.4%	85^th
1870 Mar-May	152	28	18.4%	44^th
1870 Jun-Jul	170	41	24.1%	48^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	158	41	25.9%	74^th
1871 Mar-Apr	87	15	17.2%	62^nd
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	16	18.0%	52^nd
1872 Mar-May	156	63	40.4%	80^th
1872 Jun-Jun	35	33	94.3%	88^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	56	37.3%	83^rd
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	75	39	52.0%	95^th
1874 Mar-May	101	40	39.6%	82^nd
1874 Jun-Jun	60	26	43.3%	81^st
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	156	86	55.1%	89^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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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