James Peterson, former Representative from Florida's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1947-1951	Representative	Florida's 1^st District
1939-1946	Representative	Florida's 1^st District
1937-1938	Representative	Florida's 1^st District
1935-1936	Representative	Florida's 1^st District
1933-1934	Representative	Florida's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Mar 1933 to Jan 1951, Peterson missed 81 of 1,675 roll call votes, which is 4.8%. This is worse than the median of 0.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1951. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1933 Mar-Jun	55	10	18.2%	97^th
1934 Jan-Jun	64	16	25.0%	89^th
1935 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Apr-Jun	40	1	2.5%	36^th
1935 Jul-Aug	58	0	0.0%	0^th
1936 Jan-Jun	76	32	42.1%	91^st
1937 Jan-Mar	19	1	5.3%	41^st
1937 Apr-Jun	41	1	2.4%	10^th
1937 Jul-Aug	27	2	7.4%	30^th
1937 Dec-Dec	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1938 Jan-Jun	61	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	42	1	2.4%	83^rd
1939 Jul-Aug	16	1	6.3%	94^th
1939 Oct-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	32	3	9.4%	89^th
1940 Apr-Jun	63	1	1.6%	85^th
1940 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Oct-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	96^th
1941 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jul-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Jan-Mar	25	2	8.0%	97^th
1942 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Jul-Sep	11	2	18.2%	74^th
1942 Oct-Nov	5	1	20.0%	74^th
1943 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Apr-Jun	49	1	2.0%	44^th
1943 Jul-Sep	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Oct-Dec	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Apr-Jun	32	5	15.6%	94^th
1944 Sep-Sep	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Nov-Dec	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Jan-Mar	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Apr-Jun	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Jul-Sep	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Oct-Dec	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Jan-Mar	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Apr-Jun	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Jul-Aug	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jul-Jul	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Nov-Dec	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Apr-Jun	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Aug-Aug	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jan-Mar	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	4	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