Rep. James Johnson
Former Representative for Virginia’s 20th District
Johnson was the representative for Virginia’s 20th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1819 to 1821.
He was previously the representative for Virginia’s 20th congressional district as a Republican from 1817 to 1819; the representative for Virginia’s 20th congressional district as a Republican from 1815 to 1817; and the representative for Virginia’s 20th congressional district as a Republican from 1813 to 1815.
Legislators who enslaved Black people
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From May 1813 to May 1820, Johnson missed 194 of 618 roll call votes, which is 31.4%. This is much worse than the median of 14.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 1820. 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
