James Pugh, former Senator from Alabama

Dates	Title	Representing
1891-1897	Senator	Alabama
1885-1891	Senator	Alabama
1880-1885	Senator	Alabama
1859-1861	Representative	Alabama's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1880 to Mar 1897, Pugh missed 721 of 3,622 roll call votes, which is 19.9%. This is better than the median of 32.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1897. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	19	11.6%	14^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	93	3	3.2%	0^th
1882 Apr-Jul	209	29	13.9%	27^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	3	7.9%	29^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	394	79	20.1%	24^th
1881 Mar-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1881 Oct-Oct	61	6	9.8%	14^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	63	6	9.5%	9^th
1884 Mar-May	113	13	11.5%	14^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	3	3.8%	0^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	163	21	12.9%	14^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	62	12	19.4%	38^th
1886 Apr-Jul	232	24	10.3%	21^st
1886 Aug-Aug	12	4	33.3%	62^nd
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	140	29	20.7%	62^nd
1885 Mar-Apr	9	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	43	13	30.2%	54^th
1888 Mar-May	56	9	16.1%	24^th
1888 Jun-Aug	58	14	24.1%	30^th
1888 Sep-Oct	14	1	7.1%	8^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	193	73	37.8%	62^nd
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	9	29.0%	49^th
1890 Mar-May	100	29	29.0%	49^th
1890 Jun-Aug	146	47	32.2%	35^th
1890 Sep-Sep	77	11	14.3%	26^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	38	26.6%	28^th
1889 Mar-Apr	3	1	33.3%	63^rd
1892 Jan-Mar	24	6	25.0%	29^th
1892 Apr-Jul	68	16	23.5%	26^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	18	17.1%	12^th
1893 Aug-Oct	69	27	39.1%	62^nd
1894 Jan-Mar	30	2	6.7%	7^th
1894 Apr-Jul	312	65	20.8%	31^st
1894 Aug-Aug	20	5	25.0%	38^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	96	34	35.4%	54^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	33	11	33.3%	66^th
1896 Mar-May	59	19	32.2%	51^st
1896 Jun-Jun	24	7	29.2%	42^nd
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	68	15	22.1%	17^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