William Linton, former Representative for Michigan's 8th Congressional District

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Linton was the representative for Michigan’s 8^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1895 to 1897.

He was previously the representative for Michigan’s 8^th congressional district as a Republican from 1893 to 1895.

Photo of Rep. William Linton [R-MI8, 1895-1897]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Aug 1893 to Mar 1897, Linton missed 301 of 535 roll call votes, which is 56.3%. This is much worse than the median of 36.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1897. 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
1893 Aug-Nov	68	40	58.8%	74^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	134	109	81.3%	81^st
1894 Apr-Jul	103	65	63.1%	68^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	9	45.0%	57^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	21	43.8%	84^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	18	4	22.2%	50^th
1896 Mar-May	54	18	33.3%	40^th
1896 Jun-Jun	28	10	35.7%	51^st
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	25	40.3%	51^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

Rep. William Linton

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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