Hutchins was the representative for New York’s 12th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1883 to 1885.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1881 to 1883; and the representative for New York’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1879 to 1881.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1879 to Mar 1885, Hutchins missed 612 of 985 roll call votes, which is 62.1%. This is much 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.
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
