James Strother, former Representative from West Virginia's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1927-1929	Representative	West Virginia's 5^th District
1925-1927	Representative	West Virginia's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1925 to Mar 1929, Strother missed 95 of 182 roll call votes, which is 52.2%. This is worse than the median of 14.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1929. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	21	1	4.8%	56^th
1926 Mar-May	37	4	10.8%	73^rd
1926 Jun-Jul	22	2	9.1%	60^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	33	19	57.6%	100^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	51	51	100.0%	100^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	18	18	100.0%	98^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