Maguire was the representative for California’s 4th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1895 to 1899.
He was previously the representative for California’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1893 to 1895.
![Photo of Rep. James Maguire [D-CA4, 1895-1899]](/static/legislator-photos/407087-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Aug 1893 to Mar 1899, Maguire missed 259 of 718 roll call votes, which is 36.1%. This is on par with the median of 34.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1899. 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
