Sen. Ollie James
Former Senator for Kentucky
James was a senator from Kentucky and was a Democrat. He served from 1913 to 1919.
He was previously the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1907 to 1913; the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1905 to 1907; and the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1903 to 1905.
![Photo of Sen. Ollie James [D-KY, 1913-1919]](/static/legislator-photos/405956-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1913 to Aug 1918, James missed 369 of 1,286 roll call votes, which is 28.7%. This is on par with the median of 29.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1918. 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
