James Lewis, former Senator from Illinois

Dates	Title	Representing
1937-1939	Senator	Illinois
1931-1936	Senator	Illinois
1913-1919	Senator	Illinois
1897-1899	Representative	Washington

Voting Record

From Apr 1913 to Apr 1939, Lewis missed 907 of 2,155 roll call votes, which is 42.1%. This is worse than the median of 14.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Apr 1939. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1913 Apr-Jul	38	7	18.4%	57^th
1913 Aug-Nov	100	47	47.0%	86^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	25	42.4%	86^th
1914 Mar-May	58	33	56.9%	86^th
1914 Jun-Aug	119	43	36.1%	57^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	20	31.3%	43^rd
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	72	61.5%	86^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	23	57.5%	88^th
1916 Mar-May	104	52	50.0%	88^th
1916 Jun-Aug	87	50	57.5%	88^th
1916 Sep-Sep	13	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	155	74	47.7%	88^th
1917 Apr-Jun	58	22	37.9%	93^rd
1917 Jul-Sep	103	24	23.3%	86^th
1917 Oct-Oct	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	11	33.3%	79^th
1918 Mar-May	52	26	50.0%	93^rd
1918 Jun-Aug	42	13	31.0%	79^th
1918 Sep-Nov	19	12	63.2%	86^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	53	20	37.7%	71^st
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	62	18	29.0%	90^th
1932 Mar-May	86	51	59.3%	95^th
1932 Jun-Jul	64	37	57.8%	95^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	60	34	56.7%	98^th
1933 Mar-Jun	87	30	34.5%	91^st
1934 Jan-Jun	117	34	29.1%	94^th
1935 Jan-Mar	34	6	17.6%	83^rd
1935 Apr-Jun	44	13	29.5%	96^th
1935 Jul-Aug	46	16	34.8%	96^th
1936 Jan-Jun	54	25	46.3%	93^rd
1937 Jan-Mar	19	5	26.3%	83^rd
1937 Apr-Jun	21	8	38.1%	88^th
1937 Jul-Aug	31	4	12.9%	70^th
1937 Nov-Dec	19	14	73.7%	96^th
1938 Jan-Jun	68	32	47.1%	93^rd
1939 Jan-Mar	16	5	31.3%	94^th
1939 Apr-Jun	1	1	100.0%	99^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