Dixon was a senator from Connecticut and was a Republican. He served from 1863 to 1869.
He was previously a senator from Connecticut as a Republican from 1857 to 1863; the representative for Connecticut’s 1st congressional district as a Whig from 1847 to 1849; and the representative for Connecticut’s 1st congressional district as a Whig from 1845 to 1847.
![Photo of Sen. James Dixon [R-CT, 1863-1869]](/static/legislator-photos/403486-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1857 to Mar 1869, Dixon missed 1,250 of 3,924 roll call votes, which is 31.9%. This is worse than the median of 23.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1869. 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
