James Berry, former Senator from Arkansas

Dates	Title	Representing
1901-1907	Senator	Arkansas
1895-1901	Senator	Arkansas
1889-1895	Senator	Arkansas
1885-1889	Senator	Arkansas

Voting Record

From Mar 1885 to Mar 1907, Berry missed 415 of 3,122 roll call votes, which is 13.3%. This is better than the median of 27.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1907. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	3	4.8%	0^th
1886 Apr-Jul	231	7	3.0%	0^th
1886 Aug-Aug	11	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	140	10	7.1%	0^th
1885 Mar-Apr	2	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	49	8	16.3%	25^th
1888 Mar-May	64	5	7.8%	8^th
1888 Jun-Aug	61	11	18.0%	8^th
1888 Sep-Oct	13	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	193	33	17.1%	25^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	2	6.5%	0^th
1890 Mar-May	109	15	13.8%	25^th
1890 Jun-Aug	146	21	14.4%	23^rd
1890 Sep-Sep	75	19	25.3%	67^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	141	29	20.6%	15^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	1	11.1%	17^th
1892 Jan-Mar	26	1	3.8%	0^th
1892 Apr-Jul	76	13	17.1%	13^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	99	12	12.1%	13^th
1893 Aug-Oct	74	7	9.5%	12^th
1894 Jan-Mar	30	1	3.3%	6^th
1894 Apr-Jul	316	53	16.8%	6^th
1894 Aug-Aug	17	2	11.8%	17^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	96	25	26.0%	45^th
1893 Apr-Apr	5	1	20.0%	31^st
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	2	5.6%	0^th
1896 Mar-May	61	3	4.9%	4^th
1896 Jun-Jun	24	2	8.3%	7^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	66	6	9.1%	0^th
1897 Mar-Jul	185	30	16.2%	27^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	25	1	4.0%	12^th
1898 Mar-May	51	4	7.8%	9^th
1898 Jun-Jul	49	5	10.2%	29^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	5	9.8%	6^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	2	10.0%	15^th
1900 Mar-May	56	5	8.9%	12^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	1	8.3%	20^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	79	5	6.3%	7^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	3	11.5%	33^rd
1902 Mar-May	46	5	10.9%	40^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	1	4.3%	12^th
1903 Jan-Mar	17	2	11.8%	14^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	7	19.4%	27^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	10	17.9%	41^st
1906 Jan-Feb	8	8	100.0%	92^nd
1906 Mar-May	49	12	24.5%	70^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	11	35.5%	44^th
1907 Jan-Mar	37	6	16.2%	33^rd

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