James Taliaferro, former Senator from Florida

Dates	Title	Representing
1905-1911	Senator	Florida
1899-1905	Senator	Florida

Voting Record

From Dec 1899 to Mar 1911, Taliaferro missed 285 of 808 roll call votes, which is 35.3%. This is worse than the median of 24.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1911. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	4	20.0%	45^th
1900 Mar-May	53	30	56.6%	80^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	3	25.0%	41^st
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	77	21	27.3%	50^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	24	1	4.2%	22^nd
1902 Mar-May	48	6	12.5%	46^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	2	8.7%	24^th
1903 Jan-Mar	16	5	31.3%	54^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	65^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	32	88.9%	98^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	12	21.4%	53^rd
1906 Jan-Feb	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1906 Mar-May	48	5	10.4%	39^th
1906 Jun-Jun	28	9	32.1%	44^th
1907 Jan-Mar	32	10	31.3%	60^th
1908 Mar-May	43	24	55.8%	74^th
1909 Jan-Mar	31	10	32.3%	63^rd
1909 Apr-Aug	123	23	18.7%	61^st
1910 Jan-Feb	6	5	83.3%	86^th
1910 Mar-May	35	27	77.1%	91^st
1910 Jun-Jun	40	40	100.0%	87^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	48	15	31.3%	64^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