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]](/static/legislator-photos/405951-200px.jpeg)
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.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
