Rep. Whiteside Hunter
Former Representative for Kentucky’s 11th District
Hunter was the representative for Kentucky’s 11th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1903 to 1905.
He was previously the representative for Kentucky’s 3rd congressional district as a Republican from 1895 to 1897; and the representative for Kentucky’s 3rd congressional district as a Republican from 1887 to 1889.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1887 to Mar 1905, Hunter missed 173 of 563 roll call votes, which is 30.7%. This is on par with the median of 29.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1905. 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
