James Laird, former Representative from Nebraska's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1889-1891	Representative	Nebraska's 2^nd District
1887-1889	Representative	Nebraska's 2^nd District
1885-1887	Representative	Nebraska's 2^nd District
1883-1885	Representative	Nebraska's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1883 to Jun 1890, Laird missed 517 of 949 roll call votes, which is 54.5%. This is worse than the median of 33.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1890. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	33	10	30.3%	72^nd
1884 Mar-May	70	19	27.1%	54^th
1884 Jun-Jul	83	37	44.6%	68^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	117	80.1%	99^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	36	17	47.2%	94^th
1886 Apr-Jul	153	57	37.3%	79^th
1886 Aug-Aug	6	1	16.7%	31^st
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	103	44	42.7%	87^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	38	16	42.1%	84^th
1888 Mar-May	105	52	49.5%	67^th
1888 Jun-Aug	47	25	53.2%	63^rd
1888 Sep-Oct	16	10	62.5%	52^nd
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	112	112	100.0%	99^th
1890 Jun-Aug	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