Bell was a senator from New Hampshire and was a Republican. He served from 1855 to 1857.
![Photo of Sen. James Bell [R-NH, 1855-1857]](/static/legislator-photos/401329-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1856 to Mar 1857, Bell missed 170 of 477 roll call votes, which is 35.6%. This is worse than the median of 25.7% 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, 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
