James Cameron, former Senator for Pennsylvania

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Cameron was a senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican. He served from 1891 to 1897.

He was previously a senator from Pennsylvania as a Republican from 1885 to 1891; and a senator from Pennsylvania as a Republican from 1877 to 1885.

Photo of Sen. James Cameron [R-PA, 1891-1897]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Oct 1877 to Mar 1897, Cameron missed 2,784 of 4,896 roll call votes, which is 56.9%. This is much worse than the median of 35.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1897. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1877 Oct-Dec	71	8	11.3%	50^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	19	27.5%	58^th
1878 Mar-May	110	44	40.0%	75^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	67	80.7%	92^nd
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	52	22.0%	42^nd
1879 Mar-Jul	191	81	42.4%	64^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	29	59.2%	86^th
1880 Mar-May	127	56	44.1%	57^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	34	87.2%	85^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	108	65.9%	86^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	96	59	61.5%	91^st
1882 Apr-Jul	212	83	39.2%	77^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	4	10.5%	43^rd
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	256	63.8%	90^th
1881 Mar-Mar	178	104	58.4%	81^st
1881 Oct-Oct	61	44	72.1%	68^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	65	100.0%	95^th
1884 Mar-May	114	109	95.6%	95^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	33	42.3%	55^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	171	137	80.1%	95^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	28	44.4%	76^th
1886 Apr-Jul	234	115	49.1%	83^rd
1886 Aug-Aug	12	7	58.3%	69^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	143	42	29.4%	69^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	2	22.2%	39^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	50	29	58.0%	95^th
1888 Mar-May	64	37	57.8%	73^rd
1888 Jun-Aug	62	47	75.8%	89^th
1888 Sep-Oct	14	8	57.1%	65^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	199	138	69.3%	95^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	20	64.5%	78^th
1890 Mar-May	114	96	84.2%	98^th
1890 Jun-Aug	150	60	40.0%	49^th
1890 Sep-Sep	79	23	29.1%	52^nd
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	93	65.0%	88^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	5	55.6%	63^rd
1892 Jan-Mar	26	21	80.8%	86^th
1892 Apr-Jul	78	35	44.9%	54^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	71	67.6%	88^th
1893 Aug-Oct	77	54	70.1%	89^th
1894 Jan-Mar	35	23	65.7%	91^st
1894 Apr-Jul	321	262	81.6%	94^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	16	76.2%	85^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	101	34	33.7%	45^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	4	66.7%	63^rd
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	6	16.7%	18^th
1896 Mar-May	66	54	81.8%	91^st
1896 Jun-Jun	24	24	100.0%	83^rd
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	38	53.5%	71^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 Cameron

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