Rep. James Brown Mason
Former Representative for Rhode Island
Mason was the representative for Rhode Island and was a Federalist. He served from 1817 to 1819.
He was previously the representative for Rhode Island as a Federalist from 1815 to 1817.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1815 to Mar 1819, Mason missed 50 of 219 roll call votes, which is 22.8%. This is worse than the median of 15.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1819. 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
