Charles James, former Senator for Rhode Island

James was a senator from Rhode Island and was a Democrat. He served from 1851 to 1857.

Photo of Sen. Charles James [D-RI, 1851-1857]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1851 to Mar 1857, James missed 582 of 1,353 roll call votes, which is 43.0%. This is much worse than the median of 27.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1857. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	14	36.8%	55^th
1852 Apr-Jul	80	27	33.8%	58^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	29	31.9%	74^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	127	61	48.0%	97^th
1851 Mar-Mar	22	19	86.4%	79^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	51	28	54.9%	82^nd
1854 Apr-Jul	230	91	39.6%	72^nd
1854 Aug-Aug	64	26	40.6%	73^rd
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	66	37.1%	72^nd
1853 Mar-Apr	23	11	47.8%	64^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	24	75.0%	95^th
1856 Apr-Jul	133	65	48.9%	73^rd
1856 Aug-Aug	124	56	45.2%	76^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	16	100.0%	80^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	49	34.0%	67^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

@unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
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

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Sen. Charles James

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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