James Priest, former Representative from Tennessee's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1953-1956	Representative	Tennessee's 5^th District
1947-1952	Representative	Tennessee's 6^th District
1943-1946	Representative	Tennessee's 6^th District
1941-1942	Representative	Tennessee's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Jan 1941 to Jul 1956, Priest missed 4 of 1,432 roll call votes, which is 0.3%. This is worse than the median of 0.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jul 1956. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1941 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^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	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Jul-Sep	11	3	27.3%	86^th
1942 Oct-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Apr-Jun	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Jul-Sep	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Oct-Dec	12	1	8.3%	58^th
1944 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^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	33	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Apr-Jun	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Jul-Aug	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jan-Mar	21	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	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	58	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Apr-Jun	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jul-Sep	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Apr-Jun	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jul-Jul	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Aug	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Aug	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Apr-Jun	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jul-Aug	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	28	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