James Barbour, former Senator for Virginia

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Barbour was a senator from Virginia and was a Republican. He served from 1821 to 1825.

He was previously a senator from Virginia as a Republican from 1815 to 1821.

Photo of Sen. James Barbour [R-VA, 1821-1825]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1814 to Mar 1825, Barbour missed 150 of 765 roll call votes, which is 19.6%. This is much worse than the median of 10.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1825. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1814-Feb 1815	49	5	10.2%	60^th
1815 Mar-Mar	6	1	16.7%	80^th
Dec 1815-Apr 1816	136	44	32.4%	67^th
Dec 1816-Mar 1817	53	12	22.6%	62^nd
Dec 1817-Apr 1818	67	17	25.4%	71^st
Dec 1818-Mar 1819	65	16	24.6%	88^th
1820 Jan-May	68	13	19.1%	73^rd
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	52	8	15.4%	64^th
1822 Jan-May	62	10	16.1%	64^th
Dec 1822-Mar 1823	29	7	24.1%	72^nd
Dec 1823-May 1824	130	9	6.9%	35^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	48	8	16.7%	65^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

Sen. James Barbour

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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