James Hughes, former Senator from Delaware

Dates	Title	Representing
1937-1942	Senator	Delaware

Voting Record

From Jan 1937 to Dec 1942, Hughes missed 166 of 617 roll call votes, which is 26.9%. This is worse than the median of 15.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1942. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1937 Jan-Mar	17	4	23.5%	84^th
1937 Apr-Jun	21	7	33.3%	86^th
1937 Jul-Aug	30	4	13.3%	75^th
1937 Nov-Dec	22	22	100.0%	98^th
1938 Jan-Jun	79	19	24.1%	70^th
1939 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	63^rd
1939 Apr-Jun	36	4	11.1%	39^th
1939 Jul-Aug	41	8	19.5%	71^st
1939 Oct-Nov	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	43	14	32.6%	89^th
1940 Apr-Jun	63	13	20.6%	79^th
1940 Jul-Sep	36	7	19.4%	71^st
1940 Oct-Nov	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Jan	1	1	100.0%	63^rd
1941 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	30	10	33.3%	81^st
1941 Jul-Sep	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Oct-Dec	21	4	19.0%	78^th
1942 Jan-Mar	22	4	18.2%	69^th
1942 Apr-Jun	28	6	21.4%	48^th
1942 Jul-Sep	18	16	88.9%	98^th
1942 Oct-Dec	24	22	91.7%	98^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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. James Hughes [D-DE, 1937-1942] leaves office as Senator from Delaware

Dec 16, 1942

Elections and Offices

Sen. James Hughes [D-DE, 1937-1942] takes office as Senator from Delaware

Jan 05, 1937

Sen. James Hughes

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Voting Record

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