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Rep. James Tuten

Former Representative from Georgia’s 8^th District, Democrat

Tuten, a Democrat, was the representative for Georgia's 8^th congressional district from 1963 to 1966.

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Voting Record

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From Jan 1963 to Oct 1966, Tuten missed 59 of 625 roll call votes, which is 9.4%. This is on par with the median of 7.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1966. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	1	1.9%	13^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	2	6.7%	38^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	2	3.9%	15^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	48	66.7%	96^th
1966 Oct-Oct	40	6	15.0%	34^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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