VH
Valentine Baxter Horton
Representative from OhioHOUSEREPUBLICAN1857–1863ID H000800
LegislationHEADLINE
26%with Dems
of 609 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
26%with Dems
of 609 · both combined
Steepest move
+22 pts
1857 → 1861
still a Republican
Career arc
Legislation leads. Each point is one Congress: how often they sided with the Democratic majority on contested bills, resolutions and amendments.
100%75%50%25%0%sides with Democrats ↑sides with Republicans ↓1857
1861–6237th Congress
Sat as a Republican
37.4%with Democrats
of 281 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 1857 → 1861, +22 pts — within one party label.
Sat as a DemocratSat as a RepublicanVotes available below
Votes
Every roll call before 1973 has no description. These rows carry a date, usually a bill number, how they voted and which side that matched — nothing is filled in by hand.
DateBillVoteTypeCastSided with
Mar 3, 1863S. 467LEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
Mar 3, 1863S. 523LEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Mar 3, 1863H.J.Res. 115LEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (H.J.Res. 115), how they voted and which side that matched.Party majoritiesDemocrats Yea · Republicans YeaCounts toward scoreNo — both party majorities voted Yea.
Where this lands
YEAVoted with both majorities — not scored
Mar 3, 1863H.R. 780LEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
Mar 3, 1863noneLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Mar 3, 1863H.R. 634LEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Mar 3, 1863S. 481LEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Mar 3, 1863S. 577LEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Mar 3, 1863S. 544LEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
9 most recent roll calls shown · 281 contested votes scored in the 37th CongressAll votes this Congress →
By policy area
career · legislationThe record carries no policy area for any of these roll calls, so there is nothing to break out.
Service record
2 Congresses35th · 185737th · 1861
Republican · House · OH35th–37th
Term datesexact