Burton was a senator from Ohio and was a Republican. He served from 1928 to 1929.
He was previously the representative for Ohio’s 22nd congressional district as a Republican from 1925 to 1927; the representative for Ohio’s 22nd congressional district as a Republican from 1923 to 1925; the representative for Ohio’s 22nd congressional district as a Republican from 1921 to 1923; a senator from Ohio as a Republican from 1909 to 1915; the representative for Ohio’s 21st congressional district as a Republican from 1907 to 1909; the representative for Ohio’s 21st congressional district as a Republican from 1905 to 1907; the representative for Ohio’s 21st congressional district as a Republican from 1903 to 1905; the representative for Ohio’s 21st congressional district as a Republican from 1901 to 1903; the representative for Ohio’s 21st congressional district as a Republican from 1899 to 1901; the representative for Ohio’s 21st congressional district as a Republican from 1895 to 1899; and the representative for Ohio’s 21st congressional district as a Republican from 1889 to 1891.
![Photo of Sen. Theodore Burton [R-OH, 1928-1929]](/static/legislator-photos/402101-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Apr 1909 to Oct 1929, Burton missed 340 of 1,360 roll call votes, which is 25.0%. This is on par with the median of 22.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1929. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
