James Jones, former Senator from Arkansas

Dates	Title	Representing
1891-1903	Senator	Arkansas
1885-1891	Senator	Arkansas
1883-1885	Representative	Arkansas's 2^nd District
1881-1883	Representative	Arkansas's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Mar 1885 to Mar 1903, Jones missed 723 of 2,763 roll call votes, which is 26.2%. This is better than the median of 28.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1903. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	57	9	15.8%	37^th
1886 Apr-Jul	216	59	27.3%	53^rd
1886 Aug-Aug	11	1	9.1%	32^nd
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	126	31	24.6%	68^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	49	21	42.9%	68^th
1888 Mar-May	59	10	16.9%	32^nd
1888 Jun-Aug	57	24	42.1%	59^th
1888 Sep-Oct	13	2	15.4%	36^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	184	47	25.5%	50^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	23	6	26.1%	52^nd
1890 Mar-May	102	39	38.2%	65^th
1890 Jun-Aug	142	39	27.5%	50^th
1890 Sep-Sep	74	36	48.6%	83^rd
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	133	48	36.1%	75^th
1889 Mar-Apr	6	4	66.7%	83^rd
1892 Jan-Mar	21	7	33.3%	50^th
1892 Apr-Jul	66	19	28.8%	46^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	100	35	35.0%	61^st
1893 Aug-Oct	74	33	44.6%	73^rd
1894 Jan-Mar	28	10	35.7%	81^st
1894 Apr-Jul	319	12	3.8%	0^th
1894 Aug-Aug	18	6	33.3%	45^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	96	12	12.5%	15^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	1	16.7%	21^st
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	34	17	50.0%	93^rd
1896 Mar-May	60	11	18.3%	32^nd
1896 Jun-Jun	24	4	16.7%	29^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	67	28	41.8%	61^st
1897 Mar-Jul	177	27	15.3%	21^st
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	23	5	21.7%	63^rd
1898 Mar-May	50	11	22.0%	42^nd
1898 Jun-Jul	47	14	29.8%	68^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	47	27	57.4%	90^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	19	1	5.3%	12^th
1900 Mar-May	50	14	28.0%	37^th
1900 Jun-Jun	11	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	67	5	7.5%	10^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	20	10	50.0%	84^th
1902 Mar-May	41	29	70.7%	93^rd
1902 Jun-Jun	19	4	21.1%	64^th
1903 Jan-Mar	17	5	29.4%	47^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^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