James Byrnes, former Senator from South Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1937-1941	Senator	South Carolina
1931-1936	Senator	South Carolina
1923-1925	Representative	South Carolina's 2^nd District
1915-1923	Representative	South Carolina's 2^nd District
1911-1915	Representative	South Carolina's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1931 to Jun 1941, Byrnes missed 80 of 1,147 roll call votes, which is 7.0%. This is better than the median of 15.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1941. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	59	8	13.6%	55^th
1932 Mar-May	73	13	17.8%	61^st
1932 Jun-Jul	59	5	8.5%	18^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	63	2	3.2%	6^th
1933 Mar-Jun	96	8	8.3%	40^th
1934 Jan-Jun	126	8	6.3%	25^th
1933 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	33^rd
1935 Apr-Jun	48	2	4.2%	21^st
1935 Jul-Aug	45	4	8.9%	52^nd
1936 Jan-Jun	58	5	8.6%	33^rd
1937 Jan-Mar	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Apr-Jun	21	1	4.8%	12^th
1937 Jul-Aug	30	2	6.7%	54^th
1937 Nov-Dec	22	4	18.2%	64^th
1938 Jan-Jun	81	7	8.6%	24^th
1939 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	35	6	17.1%	55^th
1939 Jul-Aug	38	1	2.6%	25^th
1939 Oct-Nov	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Apr-Jun	64	1	1.6%	2^nd
1940 Jul-Sep	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Oct-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	31	2	6.5%	19^th

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