Rep. Samuel Moulton

Former Representative from Illinois’s 17^th District, Democrat

Moulton, a Democrat, was the representative for Illinois's 17^th congressional district from 1883 to 1885.

He was previously the representative for Illinois's 15^th congressional district (1881-1883); and the representative for Illinois (1865-1867; Republican).

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Voting Record

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From Dec 1865 to Mar 1885, Moulton missed 459 of 1,296 roll call votes, which is 35.4%. This is worse than the median of 29.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1885. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	105	16	15.2%	57^th
1866 Mar-May	142	59	41.5%	85^th
1866 Jun-Jul	142	38	26.8%	69^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	224	37	16.5%	62^nd
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	75	30	40.0%	78^th
1882 Apr-Jul	167	115	68.9%	90^th
1882 Aug-Aug	7	7	100.0%	81^st
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	100	29	29.0%	60^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	34	9	26.5%	63^rd
1884 Mar-May	71	25	35.2%	64^th
1884 Jun-Jul	83	53	63.9%	82^nd
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	41	28.1%	46^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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