Rep. James Flick

Former Representative for Iowa’s 8^th District

Flick was the representative for Iowa’s 8^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1891 to 1893.

He was previously the representative for Iowa’s 8^th congressional district as a Republican from 1889 to 1891.

Bioguide

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1889 to Mar 1893, Flick missed 227 of 891 roll call votes, which is 25.5%. This is better than the median of 34.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1893. 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 1889-Feb 1890	80	10	12.5%	9^th
1890 Mar-May	109	11	10.1%	6^th
1890 Jun-Aug	172	14	8.1%	5^th
1890 Sep-Sep	53	11	20.8%	17^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	50	28.9%	49^th
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	58	29	50.0%	80^th
1892 Apr-Jul	161	74	46.0%	59^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	81	28	34.6%	47^th

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

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