James Mead, former Senator from New York

Dates	Title	Representing
1938-1946	Senator	New York
1935-1936	Representative	New York's 42^nd District
1931-1934	Representative	New York's 42^nd District
1927-1931	Representative	New York's 42^nd District
1925-1927	Representative	New York's 42^nd District
1923-1925	Representative	New York's 42^nd District
1919-1923	Representative	New York's 42^nd District

Voting Record

From Jan 1939 to Aug 1946, Mead missed 101 of 898 roll call votes, which is 11.2%. This is better than the median of 11.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1946. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1939 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	63^rd
1939 Apr-Jun	32	6	18.8%	63^rd
1939 Jul-Aug	39	1	2.6%	25^th
1939 Oct-Nov	17	1	5.9%	74^th
1940 Jan-Mar	44	2	4.5%	20^th
1940 Apr-Jun	64	5	7.8%	31^st
1940 Jul-Sep	38	4	10.5%	54^th
1940 Oct-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Mar	23	5	21.7%	91^st
1941 Apr-Jun	29	7	24.1%	63^rd
1941 Jul-Sep	23	7	30.4%	71^st
1941 Oct-Dec	21	2	9.5%	54^th
1942 Jan-Mar	23	3	13.0%	47^th
1942 Apr-Jun	28	5	17.9%	41^st
1942 Jul-Sep	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Oct-Dec	24	1	4.2%	11^th
1943 Jan-Mar	19	5	26.3%	72^nd
1943 Apr-Jun	51	3	5.9%	25^th
1943 Jul-Sep	20	13	65.0%	85^th
1943 Oct-Dec	30	6	20.0%	69^th
1944 Jan-Mar	46	8	17.4%	54^th
1944 Apr-Jun	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Aug-Sep	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Nov-Dec	17	1	5.9%	32^nd
1945 Jan-Mar	17	3	17.6%	85^th
1945 Apr-Jun	39	5	12.8%	89^th
1945 Jul-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Oct-Dec	23	2	8.7%	54^th
1946 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Apr-Jun	73	1	1.4%	40^th
1946 Jul-Aug	48	4	8.3%	89^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