Garfield was President of the United States and was a Republican. He served from 1881 to 1881.
He was previously the representative for Ohio’s 19th congressional district as a Republican from 1877 to 1881; the representative for Ohio’s 19th congressional district as a Republican from 1875 to 1877; the representative for Ohio’s 19th congressional district as a Republican from 1873 to 1875; the representative for Ohio’s 19th congressional district as a Republican from 1865 to 1873; and the representative for Ohio’s 19th congressional district as a Republican from 1863 to 1865.
![Photo of President James Garfield [R, 1881-1881]](/static/legislator-photos/404436-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1863 to Jun 1880, Garfield missed 1,307 of 4,577 roll call votes, which is 28.6%. This is on par with the median of 27.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1880. 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
