Rep. James Chase

Former Representative from Pennsylvania’s 23^rd District, Republican

Chase, a Republican, was the representative for Pennsylvania's 23^rd congressional district from 1931 to 1933.

He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania's 23^rd congressional district (1927-1931).

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Voting Record

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From Dec 1927 to Mar 1933, Chase missed 156 of 298 roll call votes, which is 52.3%. This is much worse than the median of 16.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1933. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1927-May 1928	54	14	25.9%	71^st
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	18	4	22.2%	54^th
1929 Apr-Jun	14	2	14.3%	45^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	9	6	66.7%	91^st
1930 Mar-May	26	22	84.6%	98^th
1930 Jun-Jul	21	13	61.9%	87^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	33	17	51.5%	93^rd
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	17	8	47.1%	94^th
1932 Mar-May	39	29	74.4%	97^th
1932 Jun-Jul	30	14	46.7%	82^nd
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	37	27	73.0%	96^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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

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