Sen. Eppa Hunton
Former Senator for Virginia
Hunton was a senator from Virginia and was a Democrat. He served from 1892 to 1895.
He was previously the representative for Virginia’s 8th congressional district as a Democrat from Oct 15, 1877 to Mar 3, 1881; the representative for Virginia’s 8th congressional district as a Democrat from Dec 6, 1875 to Mar 3, 1877; and the representative for Virginia’s 8th congressional district as a Democrat from Dec 1, 1873 to Mar 3, 1875.
Legislators who enslaved Black people
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jun 1892 to Mar 1895, Hunton missed 167 of 710 roll call votes, which is 23.5%. This is better than the median of 34.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1895. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo