James Orr, former Representative from South Carolina's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1857-1859	Representative	South Carolina's 5^th District
1855-1857	Representative	South Carolina's 5^th District
1853-1855	Representative	South Carolina's 5^th District
1851-1853	Representative	South Carolina's 2^nd District
1849-1851	Representative	South Carolina's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1849 to Mar 1859, Orr missed 1,030 of 2,888 roll call votes, which is 35.7%. This is worse than the median of 22.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1859. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	13	12.0%	31^st
1850 Mar-May	68	12	17.6%	34^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	9	6.2%	14^th
1850 Sep-Sep	117	8	6.8%	14^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	10	7.5%	10^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	93	11	11.8%	30^th
1852 Apr-Jul	177	33	18.6%	36^th
1852 Aug-Aug	64	15	23.4%	31^st
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	18	15.8%	22^nd
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	112	13	11.6%	19^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	58	19.0%	27^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	3	9.1%	21^st
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	22	14.2%	28^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	173	31	17.9%	59^th
1856 Apr-Jul	200	119	59.5%	96^th
1856 Aug-Aug	71	15	21.1%	62^nd
1856 Aug-Aug	44	3	6.8%	48^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	230	97	42.2%	86^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	99	96.1%	98^th
1858 Mar-May	179	178	99.4%	99^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	68	100.0%	97^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	195	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