Rep. James Bede
Former Representative for Minnesota’s 8th District
Bede was the representative for Minnesota’s 8th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1907 to 1909.
He was previously the representative for Minnesota’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from 1905 to 1907; and the representative for Minnesota’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from 1903 to 1905.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Nov 1903 to Mar 1909, Bede missed 168 of 535 roll call votes, which is 31.4%. This is on par with the median of 30.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1909. 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
