Richardson was the representative for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1903 to 1905.
He was previously the representative for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1901 to 1903; the representative for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1899 to 1901; the representative for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1895 to 1899; the representative for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1893 to 1895; the representative for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1891 to 1893; the representative for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1889 to 1891; the representative for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1887 to 1889; and the representative for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1885 to 1887.
![Photo of Rep. James Daniel Richardson [D-TN5, 1903-1905]](/static/legislator-photos/409198-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1885 to Mar 1905, Richardson missed 635 of 2,654 roll call votes, which is 23.9%. This is on par with the median of 29.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1905. 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
