JS
James French Strother
Representative from West VirginiaHOUSEREPUBLICAN1925–1929ID S001024
LegislationHEADLINE
16%with Dems
of 37 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
16%with Dems
of 37 · both combined
Steepest move
−17 pts
1925 → 1927
still a Republican
Career arc
Legislation leads. Each point is one Congress: how often they sided with the Democratic majority on contested bills, resolutions and amendments.
100%75%50%25%0%sides with Democrats ↑sides with Republicans ↓1925
1927–2870th Congress
Sat as a Republican
0%with Democrats
of 1 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 1925 → 1927, −17 pts — within one party label.
Sat as a DemocratSat as a RepublicanVotes available below
Votes
Every roll call before 1973 has no description. These rows carry a date, usually a bill number, how they voted and which side that matched — nothing is filled in by hand.
DateBillVoteTypeCastSided with
May 25, 1928H.R. 5773LEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
May 3, 1928S. 3555LEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
Dec 5, 1927noneLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, how they voted and which side that matched.Party majoritiesDemocrats Yea · Republicans YeaCounts toward scoreNo — both party majorities voted Yea.
Where this lands
YEAVoted with both majorities — not scored
3 most recent roll calls shown · 1 contested votes scored in the 70th CongressAll votes this Congress →
By policy area
career · legislationThe record carries no policy area for any of these roll calls, so there is nothing to break out.
Service record
2 Congresses69th · 192570th · 1927
Republican · House · WV69th–70th
Term datesexact