James Slayden, former Representative from Texas's 14th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1915-1919	Representative	Texas's 14^th District
1907-1915	Representative	Texas's 14^th District
1905-1907	Representative	Texas's 14^th District
1903-1905	Representative	Texas's 14^th District
1901-1903	Representative	Texas's 12^th District
1899-1901	Representative	Texas's 12^th District
1897-1899	Representative	Texas's 12^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1897 to Mar 1919, Slayden missed 671 of 2,159 roll call votes, which is 31.1%. This is worse than the median of 24.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1919. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1897 Mar-Jul	37	8	21.6%	36^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	28	10	35.7%	71^st
1898 Mar-May	53	20	37.7%	68^th
1898 Jun-Jul	25	8	32.0%	55^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	4	10.8%	0^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	6	30.0%	55^th
1900 Mar-May	48	12	25.0%	57^th
1900 Jun-Jun	16	16	100.0%	95^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	14	22.6%	33^rd
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	18	1	5.6%	25^th
1902 Mar-May	22	16	72.7%	98^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	6	21.4%	36^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	14	12.4%	19^th
1903 Nov-Nov	6	1	16.7%	57^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	8	16.3%	30^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	4	12.5%	25^th
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	24	5	20.8%	51^st
1906 Mar-May	56	31	55.4%	83^rd
1906 Jun-Jun	20	5	25.0%	52^nd
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	34	5	14.7%	45^th
Dec 1907-May 1908	269	81	30.1%	58^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	42	8	19.0%	45^th
1909 Mar-Aug	36	5	13.9%	53^rd
Dec 1909-Feb 1910	18	4	22.2%	52^nd
1910 Mar-May	60	13	21.7%	50^th
1910 Jun-Jun	15	6	40.0%	80^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	65	38	58.5%	94^th
1911 Apr-Aug	44	15	34.1%	74^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	58	18	31.0%	62^nd
1912 Apr-Jul	57	12	21.1%	33^rd
1912 Aug-Aug	29	10	34.5%	53^rd
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	63	18	28.6%	59^th
1913 Apr-Jul	22	15	68.2%	78^th
1913 Aug-Nov	42	20	47.6%	33^rd
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	20	1	5.0%	24^th
1914 Mar-May	34	19	55.9%	90^th
1914 Jun-Aug	61	51	83.6%	87^th
1914 Sep-Oct	29	7	24.1%	43^rd
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	66	14	21.2%	56^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	14	1	7.1%	49^th
1916 Mar-May	53	7	13.2%	46^th
1916 Jun-Aug	16	11	68.8%	95^th
1916 Sep-Sep	3	2	66.7%	71^st
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	61	12	19.7%	68^th
1917 Apr-Jun	40	2	5.0%	31^st
1917 Jul-Sep	10	6	60.0%	84^th
1917 Oct-Oct	3	3	100.0%	72^nd
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	6	18.2%	52^nd
1918 Mar-May	63	14	22.2%	48^th
1918 Jun-Aug	31	22	71.0%	87^th
1918 Sep-Oct	14	5	35.7%	52^nd
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	60	31	51.7%	84^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