Sen. James Fair

Former Senator for Nevada

Fair was a senator from Nevada and was a Democrat. He served from 1881 to 1887.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. James Fair [D-NV, 1881-1887]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1881 to Mar 1887, Fair missed 1,426 of 1,875 roll call votes, which is 76.1%. This is much worse than the median of 30.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1887. 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 1881-Mar 1882	96	53	55.2%	84^th
1882 Apr-Jul	212	154	72.6%	94^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	38	100.0%	92^nd
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	394	98.3%	98^th
1881 Mar-Mar	178	125	70.2%	90^th
1881 Oct-Oct	61	61	100.0%	98^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	14	21.5%	27^th
1884 Mar-May	114	81	71.1%	90^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	35	44.9%	63^rd
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	171	108	63.2%	92^nd
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	61	96.8%	96^th
1886 Apr-Jul	234	195	83.3%	95^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	12	100.0%	84^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	143	88	61.5%	86^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	7	77.8%	92^nd

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources