Hooper was the representative for Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1873 to 1875.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1865 to 1873; the representative for Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1863 to 1865; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1861 to 1863.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
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.
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
