James Brady, former Senator for Idaho

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Brady was a senator from Idaho and was a Republican. He served from 1915 to 1919.

He was previously a senator from Idaho as a Republican from 1913 to 1915.

Photo of Sen. James Brady [R-ID, 1915-1919]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Feb 1913 to Jan 1918, Brady missed 476 of 1,224 roll call votes, which is 38.9%. This is worse than the median of 29.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1918. 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 1912-Mar 1913	59	14	23.7%	51^st
1913 Apr-Jul	38	5	13.2%	27^th
1913 Aug-Nov	109	22	20.2%	46^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	4	6.8%	10^th
1914 Mar-May	58	17	29.3%	45^th
1914 Jun-Aug	121	31	25.6%	27^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	32	50.0%	60^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	64	54.7%	85^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	5	100.0%	80^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	40	100.0%	97^th
1916 Mar-May	106	85	80.2%	96^th
1916 Jun-Aug	88	33	37.5%	62^nd
1916 Sep-Sep	13	4	30.8%	53^rd
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	159	59	37.1%	69^th
1917 Apr-Jun	63	18	28.6%	75^th
1917 Jul-Sep	103	35	34.0%	76^th
1917 Oct-Oct	11	1	9.1%	24^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	9	7	77.8%	92^nd
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^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 Brady

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Missed Votes

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