Hunter was a senator from Rhode Island and was a Federalist. He served from 1815 to 1821.
He was previously a senator from Rhode Island as a Federalist from 1811 to 1815.
![Photo of Sen. William Hunter [F-RI, 1815-1821]](/data/photos/405831-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Nov 1811 to Mar 1821, Hunter missed 162 of 907 roll call votes, which is 17.9%. This is on par with the median of 12.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1821. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
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