Rep. James Gholson
Former Representative for Virginia’s 4th District
Gholson was the representative for Virginia’s 4th congressional district and was an Anti Jacksonian. He served from 1833 to 1835.
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Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1833 to Mar 1835, Gholson missed 57 of 327 roll call votes, which is 17.4%. This is on par with the median of 18.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1835. 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
