Ollie James, former Senator from Kentucky

Dates	Title	Representing
1913-1919	Senator	Kentucky
1907-1913	Representative	Kentucky's 1^st District
1905-1907	Representative	Kentucky's 1^st District
1903-1905	Representative	Kentucky's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Mar 1913 to Aug 1918, James missed 342 of 1,250 roll call votes, which is 27.4%. This is better than the median of 27.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1918. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1913 Apr-Jul	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1913 Aug-Nov	103	3	2.9%	6^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	5	8.5%	18^th
1914 Mar-May	55	16	29.1%	46^th
1914 Jun-Aug	117	41	35.0%	45^th
1914 Sep-Oct	62	27	43.5%	49^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	11	9.4%	9^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	1	20.0%	36^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	39	7	17.9%	39^th
1916 Mar-May	104	45	43.3%	68^th
1916 Jun-Aug	87	21	24.1%	43^rd
1916 Sep-Sep	11	10	90.9%	86^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	155	17	11.0%	11^th
1917 Apr-Jun	59	10	16.9%	46^th
1917 Jul-Sep	103	20	19.4%	56^th
1917 Oct-Oct	10	2	20.0%	52^nd
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	20	60.6%	86^th
1918 Mar-May	50	44	88.0%	94^th
1918 Jun-Aug	42	42	100.0%	97^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^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