Sen. William Hunter

Former Senator from Rhode Island, Federalist

Hunter, a Federalist, was a senator from Rhode Island from 1815 to 1821.

He was previously a senator from Rhode Island (1811-1815).

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Voting Record

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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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Nov 1811-Feb 1812	27	2	7.4%	40^th
1812 Mar-Jun	77	18	23.4%	40^th
1812 Jul-Jul	10	5	50.0%	60^th
Nov 1812-Mar 1813	89	20	22.5%	50^th
1813 Jun-Aug	63	9	14.3%	43^rd
Dec 1813-Apr 1814	89	10	11.2%	13^th
1814 Sep-Nov	19	3	15.8%	38^th
Dec 1814-Feb 1815	86	8	9.3%	30^th
1815 Mar-Mar	6	2	33.3%	70^th
Dec 1815-Apr 1816	136	38	27.9%	73^rd
Dec 1816-Mar 1817	53	3	5.7%	37^th
Dec 1817-Apr 1818	67	11	16.4%	54^th
Dec 1818-Mar 1819	65	14	21.5%	74^th
1820 Jan-May	68	10	14.7%	52^nd
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	52	9	17.3%	60^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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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