Rep. James Needham
Former Representative for California’s 6th District
Needham was the representative for California’s 6th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1907 to 1913.
He was previously the representative for California’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from Dec 4, 1905 to Mar 3, 1907; the representative for California’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from Nov 9, 1903 to Mar 3, 1905; the representative for California’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from Dec 2, 1901 to Mar 3, 1903; and the representative for California’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from Dec 4, 1899 to Mar 3, 1901.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1899 to Mar 1913, Needham missed 209 of 1,328 roll call votes, which is 15.7%. This is better than the median of 28.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1913. 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
