Rep. William Forrest Hunter

Former Representative for Ohio’s 15^th District

Hunter was the representative for Ohio’s 15^th congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1851 to 1853.

He was previously the representative for Ohio’s 15^th congressional district as a Whig from 1849 to 1851.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1849 to Mar 1853, Hunter missed 335 of 1,027 roll call votes, which is 32.6%. This is worse than the median of 27.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1853. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	23	21.3%	69^th
1850 Mar-May	68	33	48.5%	85^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	18	12.3%	42^nd
1850 Sep-Sep	117	20	17.1%	65^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	25	18.8%	41^st
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	96	45	46.9%	88^th
1852 Apr-Jul	180	46	25.6%	41^st
1852 Aug-Aug	65	58	89.2%	91^st
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	67	58.8%	91^st

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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