Rep. James Igoe

Former Representative for Illinois’s 6^th District

Igoe was the representative for Illinois’s 6^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1931 to 1933.

He was previously the representative for Illinois’s 6^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1927 to 1931.

Bioguide

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1927 to Mar 1933, Igoe missed 221 of 298 roll call votes, which is 74.2%. This is much worse than the median of 16.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1933. 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 1927-May 1928	54	34	63.0%	97^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	18	12	66.7%	95^th
1929 Apr-Jun	14	6	42.9%	89^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	9	7	77.8%	95^th
1930 Mar-May	26	18	69.2%	94^th
1930 Jun-Jul	21	19	90.5%	96^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	33	19	57.6%	95^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	17	9	52.9%	96^th
1932 Mar-May	39	36	92.3%	99^th
1932 Jun-Jul	30	27	90.0%	97^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	37	34	91.9%	98^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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