Rep. James Gillett
Former Representative for California’s 1st District
Gillett was the representative for California’s 1st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1905 to 1907.
He was previously the representative for California’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1903 to 1905.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Nov 1903 to Jun 1906, Gillett missed 69 of 189 roll call votes, which is 36.5%. This is on par with the median of 30.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1906. 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
