Sen. James Heflin

Former Senator from Alabama, Democrat

Heflin, a Democrat, was a senator from Alabama from 1925 to 1931.

He was previously a senator from Alabama (1920-1925); the representative for Alabama's 5^th congressional district (1915-1920); the representative for Alabama's 5^th congressional district (1907-1915); the representative for Alabama's 5^th congressional district (1905-1907); and the representative for Alabama's 5^th congressional district (1903-1905).

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Voting Record

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From Dec 1920 to Mar 1931, Heflin missed 275 of 1,936 roll call votes, which is 14.2%. This is better than the median of 22.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1931. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	87	7	8.0%	9^th
1921 Apr-Jun	66	5	7.6%	10^th
1921 Jul-Sep	40	7	17.5%	10^th
1921 Oct-Nov	90	11	12.2%	33^rd
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	40	2	5.0%	14^th
1922 Mar-May	199	64	32.2%	55^th
1922 Jun-Aug	215	10	4.7%	8^th
1922 Sep-Sep	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1922 Nov-Nov	13	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	72	5	6.9%	5^th
1921 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	54	34	63.0%	66^th
1924 Mar-May	86	15	17.4%	58^th
1924 Jun-Jun	18	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	77	1	1.3%	5^th
1926 Jan-Feb	59	5	8.5%	34^th
1926 Mar-May	51	9	17.6%	49^th
1926 Jun-Jul	38	1	2.6%	7^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	77	8	10.4%	23^rd
1925 Mar-Mar	11	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	125	13	10.4%	27^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1929 May-Jun	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1929 Sep-Sep	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1929 Oct-Nov	55	3	5.5%	18^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	100	18	18.0%	52^nd
1930 Mar-May	142	20	14.1%	29^th
1930 Jun-Jul	23	18	78.3%	80^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	63	10	15.9%	35^th
1930 Jul-Jul	9	9	100.0%	74^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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

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