Rep. James Priest
Former Representative for Tennessee’s 5th District
Priest was the representative for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1953 to 1956.
He was previously the representative for Tennessee’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1943 to 1952; and the representative for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district as an Ind. Democrat from 1941 to 1942.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1941 to Jul 1956, Priest missed 22 of 1,453 roll call votes, which is 1.5%. This is better than the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jul 1956. 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
