Vinton was the representative for Ohio’s 12th congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1849 to 1851.
He was previously the representative for Ohio’s 12th congressional district as a Whig from 1847 to 1849; the representative for Ohio’s 12th congressional district as a Whig from 1845 to 1847; the representative for Ohio’s 12th congressional district as a Whig from 1843 to 1845; the representative for Ohio’s 6th congressional district as a Whig from 1835 to 1837; the representative for Ohio’s 6th congressional district as a Whig from 1833 to 1835; the representative for Ohio’s 7th congressional district as a Whig from 1831 to 1833; the representative for Ohio’s 7th congressional district as a Whig from 1829 to 1831; the representative for Ohio’s 7th congressional district as an Adams from 1827 to 1829; the representative for Ohio’s 7th congressional district as an Adams from 1825 to 1827; and the representative for Ohio’s 7th congressional district as a Whig from 1823 to 1825.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1823 to Mar 1851, Vinton missed 658 of 4,248 roll call votes, which is 15.5%. This is better than the median of 21.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1851. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
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