Pugh was a senator from Alabama and was a Democrat. He served from 1891 to 1897.
He was previously a senator from Alabama as a Democrat from 1885 to 1891; a senator from Alabama as a Democrat from 1880 to 1885; and the representative for Alabama’s 2nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1859 to 1861.
![Photo of Sen. James Pugh [D-AL, 1891-1897]](/static/legislator-photos/408944-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1880 to Mar 1897, Pugh missed 849 of 3,921 roll call votes, which is 21.7%. This is better than the median of 35.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1897. 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
