Rep. James McAndrews

Former Representative from Illinois’s 9^th District, Democrat

McAndrews, a Democrat, was the representative for Illinois's 9^th congressional district from 1935 to 1940.

He was previously the representative for Illinois's 6^th congressional district (1915-1921); the representative for Illinois's 6^th congressional district (1913-1915); the representative for Illinois's 5^th congressional district (1903-1905); and the representative for Illinois's 4^th congressional district (1901-1903).

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Voting Record

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From Dec 1901 to Dec 1940, McAndrews missed 509 of 1,910 roll call votes, which is 26.6%. This is much worse than the median of 7.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1940. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	19	6	31.6%	0^th
1902 Mar-May	22	15	68.2%	0^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	23	82.1%	0^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	114	32	28.1%	33^rd
1903 Nov-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	28	57.1%	75^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	16	50.0%	75^th
1913 Apr-Jul	22	3	13.6%	17^th
1913 Aug-Nov	43	24	55.8%	42^nd
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	1	4.2%	11^th
1914 Mar-May	34	8	23.5%	53^rd
1914 Jun-Aug	62	53	85.5%	89^th
1914 Sep-Oct	29	20	69.0%	74^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	67	11	16.4%	55^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	16	1	6.3%	27^th
1916 Mar-May	53	12	22.6%	82^nd
1916 Jun-Aug	23	8	34.8%	68^th
1916 Sep-Sep	3	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	62	9	14.5%	73^rd
1917 Apr-Jun	43	16	37.2%	91^st
1917 Jul-Sep	10	1	10.0%	31^st
1917 Oct-Oct	4	2	50.0%	66^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1918 Mar-May	65	18	27.7%	73^rd
1918 Jun-Aug	33	6	18.2%	29^th
1918 Sep-Oct	14	2	14.3%	21^st
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	63	31	49.2%	91^st
1919 May-Jul	62	9	14.5%	43^rd
1919 Aug-Oct	52	28	53.8%	74^th
1919 Nov-Nov	16	10	62.5%	77^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	39	4	10.3%	30^th
1920 Mar-May	70	29	41.4%	78^th
1920 Jun-Jun	8	1	12.5%	51^st
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	92	25	27.2%	79^th
1935 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Apr-Jun	40	2	5.0%	44^th
1935 Jul-Aug	60	5	8.3%	58^th
1936 Jan-Jun	80	18	22.5%	56^th
1937 Jan-Mar	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Apr-Jun	41	8	19.5%	58^th
1937 Jul-Aug	28	5	17.9%	46^th
1937 Dec-Dec	9	1	11.1%	74^th
1938 Jan-Jun	61	4	6.6%	65^th
1939 Jan-Mar	30	2	6.7%	58^th
1939 Apr-Jun	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jul-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Oct-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	32	4	12.5%	75^th
1940 Apr-Jun	63	1	1.6%	33^rd
1940 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Oct-Dec	10	7	70.0%	99^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

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