Rep. James Faran

Former Representative for Ohio’s 1^st District

Faran was the representative for Ohio’s 1^st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1847 to 1849.

He was previously the representative for Ohio’s 1^st congressional district as a Democrat from 1845 to 1847.

Bioguide

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1845 to Mar 1849, Faran missed 226 of 1,120 roll call votes, which is 20.2%. This is on par with the median of 24.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1849. 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 1845-Mar 1846	149	40	26.8%	59^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	52	19.8%	35^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	5	9.8%	21^st
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	179	47	26.3%	51^st
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	101	24	23.8%	50^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	36	23.8%	45^th
1848 Aug-Aug	71	6	8.5%	10^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	16	10.3%	21^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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources