James McLachlan, former Representative from California's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1911	Representative	California's 7^th District
1905-1907	Representative	California's 7^th District
1903-1905	Representative	California's 7^th District
1901-1903	Representative	California's 6^th District
1895-1897	Representative	California's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1895 to Mar 1911, McLachlan missed 270 of 1,071 roll call votes, which is 25.2%. This is better than the median of 26.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1911. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	18	3	16.7%	48^th
1896 Mar-May	54	25	46.3%	65^th
1896 Jun-Jun	28	4	14.3%	15^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	17	27.4%	19^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	17	3	17.6%	44^th
1902 Mar-May	22	4	18.2%	20^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	8	28.6%	44^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	18	15.9%	34^th
1903 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	8	16.3%	23^rd
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	9	28.1%	65^th
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	25	8	32.0%	67^th
1906 Mar-May	57	18	31.6%	52^nd
1906 Jun-Jun	20	7	35.0%	58^th
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	34	24	70.6%	94^th
Dec 1907-May 1908	269	82	30.5%	51^st
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	42	7	16.7%	29^th
1909 Mar-Aug	35	6	17.1%	66^th
Dec 1909-Feb 1910	18	2	11.1%	25^th
1910 Mar-May	60	6	10.0%	14^th
1910 Jun-Jun	18	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	65	11	16.9%	30^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