James Berry, former Senator for Arkansas

Berry was a senator from Arkansas and was a Democrat. He served from 1901 to 1907.

He was previously a senator from Arkansas as a Democrat from 1895 to 1901; a senator from Arkansas as a Democrat from 1889 to 1895; and a senator from Arkansas as a Democrat from 1885 to 1889.

Photo of Sen. James Berry [D-AR, 1901-1907]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1885 to Mar 1907, Berry missed 499 of 3,221 roll call votes, which is 15.5%. This is better than the median of 29.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1907. 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 1885-Mar 1886	63	3	4.8%	0^th
1886 Apr-Jul	234	10	4.3%	0^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	1	8.3%	0^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	143	12	8.4%	0^th
1885 Mar-Apr	2	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	50	9	18.0%	25^th
1888 Mar-May	64	5	7.8%	0^th
1888 Jun-Aug	62	12	19.4%	8^th
1888 Sep-Oct	14	1	7.1%	8^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	199	38	19.1%	0^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	2	6.5%	0^th
1890 Mar-May	114	20	17.5%	25^th
1890 Jun-Aug	150	24	16.0%	23^rd
1890 Sep-Sep	79	21	26.6%	67^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	31	21.7%	15^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	1	11.1%	17^th
1892 Jan-Mar	26	1	3.8%	0^th
1892 Apr-Jul	78	15	19.2%	12^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	18	17.1%	12^th
1893 Aug-Oct	77	7	9.1%	6^th
1894 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	6^th
1894 Apr-Jul	321	57	17.8%	6^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	6	28.6%	33^rd
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	101	30	29.7%	45^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	2	33.3%	31^st
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	2	5.6%	0^th
1896 Mar-May	66	7	10.6%	4^th
1896 Jun-Jun	24	2	8.3%	7^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	11	15.5%	0^th
1897 Mar-Jul	200	45	22.5%	36^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	26	1	3.8%	6^th
1898 Mar-May	51	4	7.8%	6^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	9	17.0%	41^st
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	5	9.8%	6^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	2	10.0%	10^th
1900 Mar-May	57	6	10.5%	7^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	1	8.3%	18^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	80	6	7.5%	7^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	3	11.5%	28^th
1902 Mar-May	49	8	16.3%	51^st
1902 Jun-Jun	23	1	4.3%	12^th
1903 Jan-Mar	18	3	16.7%	12^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	7	19.4%	21^st
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	10	17.9%	36^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	8	100.0%	92^nd
1906 Mar-May	49	12	24.5%	66^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	11	35.5%	41^st
1907 Jan-Mar	38	7	18.4%	31^st

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 Berry

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Missed Votes

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