Jones was a senator from Arkansas and was a Democrat. He served from 1891 to 1903.
He was previously a senator from Arkansas as a Democrat from 1885 to 1891; the representative for Arkansas’s 2nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1883 to 1885; and the representative for Arkansas’s 2nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1881 to 1883.
![Photo of Sen. James Kimbrough Jones [D-AR, 1891-1903]](/static/legislator-photos/406124-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1885 to Mar 1903, Jones missed 957 of 3,010 roll call votes, which is 31.8%. This is on par with the median of 31.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1903. 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
