James Buchanan, former Representative from Texas's 10th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1937-1938	Representative	Texas's 10^th District
1935-1936	Representative	Texas's 10^th District
1931-1934	Representative	Texas's 10^th District
1927-1931	Representative	Texas's 10^th District
1925-1927	Representative	Texas's 10^th District
1923-1925	Representative	Texas's 10^th District
1915-1923	Representative	Texas's 10^th District
1913-1915	Representative	Texas's 10^th District

Voting Record

From Apr 1913 to Feb 1937, Buchanan missed 305 of 2,301 roll call votes, which is 13.3%. This is worse than the median of 9.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1937. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1913 Apr-Jul	21	5	23.8%	42^nd
1913 Aug-Nov	43	12	27.9%	4^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1914 Mar-May	34	8	23.5%	63^rd
1914 Jun-Aug	62	1	1.6%	7^th
1914 Sep-Oct	29	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	67	5	7.5%	18^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1916 Mar-May	52	6	11.5%	54^th
1916 Jun-Aug	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1916 Sep-Sep	3	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	62	7	11.3%	61^st
1917 Apr-Jun	41	6	14.6%	72^nd
1917 Jul-Sep	10	5	50.0%	83^rd
1917 Oct-Oct	3	1	33.3%	44^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	3	9.1%	44^th
1918 Mar-May	63	4	6.3%	19^th
1918 Jun-Aug	33	3	9.1%	11^th
1918 Sep-Oct	14	5	35.7%	55^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	63	11	17.5%	55^th
1919 May-Jul	62	9	14.5%	36^th
1919 Aug-Oct	51	2	3.9%	9^th
1919 Nov-Nov	16	1	6.3%	16^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	39	3	7.7%	20^th
1920 Mar-May	70	4	5.7%	16^th
1920 Jun-Jun	8	2	25.0%	77^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	90	5	5.6%	24^th
1921 Apr-Jun	55	14	25.5%	71^st
1921 Jul-Aug	45	8	17.8%	50^th
1921 Oct-Nov	29	4	13.8%	38^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	44	6	13.6%	33^rd
1922 Mar-May	47	7	14.9%	44^th
1922 Jun-Aug	51	33	64.7%	75^th
1922 Sep-Sep	12	4	33.3%	65^th
1922 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	60	14	23.3%	54^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	19	1	5.3%	82^nd
1924 Mar-May	81	4	4.9%	34^th
1924 Jun-Jun	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	52	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Mar-May	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Jun-Jul	21	7	33.3%	96^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	33	5	15.2%	88^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	53	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	18	4	22.2%	57^th
1929 Apr-Jun	13	1	7.7%	38^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	8	2	25.0%	54^th
1930 Mar-May	26	5	19.2%	56^th
1930 Jun-Jul	15	15	100.0%	98^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	33	1	3.0%	17^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1932 Mar-May	38	1	2.6%	24^th
1932 Jun-Jul	28	20	71.4%	99^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	36	1	2.8%	24^th
1933 Mar-Jun	61	2	3.3%	69^th
1934 Jan-Jun	81	5	6.2%	34^th
1935 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Apr-Jun	40	2	5.0%	61^st
1935 Jul-Aug	58	0	0.0%	0^th
1936 Jan-Jun	78	28	35.9%	86^th
1937 Jan-Mar	12	3	25.0%	83^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