James Tawney, former Representative from Minnesota's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1911	Representative	Minnesota's 1^st District
1905-1907	Representative	Minnesota's 1^st District
1903-1905	Representative	Minnesota's 1^st District
1901-1903	Representative	Minnesota's 1^st District
1899-1901	Representative	Minnesota's 1^st District
1895-1899	Representative	Minnesota's 1^st District
1893-1895	Representative	Minnesota's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Aug 1893 to Mar 1911, Tawney missed 548 of 1,764 roll call votes, which is 31.1%. This is worse than the median of 26.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1911. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1893 Aug-Nov	66	33	50.0%	48^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	92	69.2%	45^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	71	70.3%	84^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	9	45.0%	61^st
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	9	18.8%	52^nd
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	18	1	5.6%	17^th
1896 Mar-May	54	17	31.5%	40^th
1896 Jun-Jun	28	5	17.9%	25^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	26	41.9%	60^th
1897 Mar-Jul	37	7	18.9%	26^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	29	6	20.7%	41^st
1898 Mar-May	53	13	24.5%	46^th
1898 Jun-Jul	26	10	38.5%	63^rd
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	15	40.5%	69^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	19	10	52.6%	94^th
1900 Mar-May	49	10	20.4%	35^th
1900 Jun-Jun	16	1	6.3%	21^st
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	23	37.1%	62^nd
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	17	2	11.8%	32^nd
1902 Mar-May	22	3	13.6%	11^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	3	10.7%	11^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	21	18.6%	44^th
1903 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	4	8.2%	9^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	1	3.1%	3^rd
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1906 Mar-May	55	13	23.6%	38^th
1906 Jun-Jun	20	2	10.0%	21^st
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	34	4	11.8%	33^rd
Dec 1907-May 1908	269	97	36.1%	59^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	42	6	14.3%	25^th
1909 Mar-Aug	35	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1909-Feb 1910	18	5	27.8%	54^th
1910 Mar-May	60	12	20.0%	37^th
1910 Jun-Jun	18	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	64	17	26.6%	49^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