McKay was the representative for North Carolina’s 7th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1847 to 1849.
He was previously the representative for North Carolina’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1845 to 1847; the representative for North Carolina’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1843 to 1845; the representative for North Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1839 to 1843; the representative for North Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1837 to 1839; the representative for North Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Jackson from 1835 to 1837; the representative for North Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Jackson from 1833 to 1835; and the representative for North Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Jackson from 1831 to 1833.
![Photo of Rep. James McKay [D-NC7, 1847-1849]](/static/legislator-photos/407484-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1831 to Mar 1849, McKay missed 596 of 5,165 roll call votes, which is 11.5%. This is better than the median of 24.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1849. 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
