Beck was a senator from Kentucky and was a Democrat. He served from 1889 to 1891.
He was previously a senator from Kentucky as a Democrat from 1883 to 1889; a senator from Kentucky as a Democrat from 1877 to 1883; the representative for Kentucky’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1873 to 1875; and the representative for Kentucky’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1867 to 1873.
![Photo of Sen. James Burnie Beck [D-KY, 1889-1891]](/static/legislator-photos/401282-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1877 to May 1890, Beck missed 1,108 of 3,541 roll call votes, which is 31.3%. This is on par with the median of 35.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in May 1890. 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.
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
