James Phelps, former Representative from Connecticut's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1881-1883	Representative	Connecticut's 2^nd District
1877-1881	Representative	Connecticut's 2^nd District
1875-1877	Representative	Connecticut's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1875 to Mar 1883, Phelps missed 476 of 1,474 roll call votes, which is 32.3%. This is worse than the median of 28.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1883. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	60	12	20.0%	62^nd
1876 Apr-Jul	106	55	51.9%	85^th
1876 Aug-Aug	37	24	64.9%	74^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	120	64	53.3%	96^th
1877 Oct-Dec	31	16	51.6%	95^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	56	15	26.8%	82^nd
1878 Mar-May	101	19	18.8%	56^th
1878 Jun-Jun	65	11	16.9%	52^nd
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	116	23	19.8%	63^rd
1879 Mar-Jul	136	14	10.3%	26^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	34	6	17.6%	39^th
1880 Mar-May	115	29	25.2%	35^th
1880 Jun-Jun	32	1	3.1%	6^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	119	28	23.5%	45^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	73	37	50.7%	88^th
1882 Apr-Jul	166	78	47.0%	55^th
1882 Aug-Aug	7	1	14.3%	17^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	100	43	43.0%	81^st

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