James Breckinridge, former Representative for Virginia's 5th Congressional District

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James Breckinridge </h1> <p> Former Representative for Virginia’s 5<sup>th</sup> District </p> </div> <div class="action-row clearfix"> </div> <div class="row group"> <div id="track_panel_base" class="col-sm-8 col-md-6"> <div style="margin: .5em 0 1em 0"> <p> Breckinridge was the representative for <a href="/congress/members/VA">Virginia</a>’s 5<sup>th</sup> congressional district and was a Federalist. He served from 1815 to 1817. </p> <p>He was previously the representative for <a href="/congress/members/VA">Virginia</a>’s 5<sup>th</sup> congressional district as a Federalist from Nov 4, 1811 to Mar 3, 1815; and the representative for <a href="/congress/members/VA">Virginia</a>’s 5<sup>th</sup> congressional district as a Federalist from May 22, 1809 to Mar 3, 1811.</p> </div> <div id="seealso-links" style="margin-bottom: 30px;"> <span> <a href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000785" target="_blank"><i class="fa-solid fa-user" style="margin-right: 7px"></i>Bioguide</a> </span> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div> </div> <div class="aside col-sm-4 col-md-3"> <div id="event_subscribe_inline_container"> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-3 hidden-xs hidden-sm"> <div class="ads" data-zone="sidebar"> <div class="explainer">(<a href="/advertising">About Ads</a> | <a href="/accounts/membership">Hide These Ads</a>)</div> </div>  </div> </div>      <h2><span>Legislators who enslaved Black people</span></h2> <div style="margin-bottom: 1em"> Breckinridge was among more than 1,800 legislators who enslaved Black people. The Washington Post compiled the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/?itid=sf_local_dont-miss-brights_p004_f001">first database of slaveholding members of Congress</a> by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents. Breckinridge was one of them. </div>  <style> #contact_modal .list-group-item input[type=radio] { float: left; text-align: right; width: 7%; } #contact_modal h4 { margin-top: -3px; } #contact_modal .list-group-item > div { float: left; width: 93%; } #contact_modal .list-group-item label { font-weight: normal; } #contact_modal .list-group-item .contact_expando { display: none; padding-top: .75em; } .list-group-item.active .list-group-item, .list-group-item.active .list-group-item .list-group-item-text { text-shadow: none; color: #444; /* .list-group-item.active inverts color */ } .list-group-item.active .list-group-item.active, .list-group-item.active .list-group-item.active .list-group-item-text { color: #FFE; /* now override our override to kind of put it back */ } #contact_modal .contact_expando a { color: #FFE; } #contact_modal .list-group-item.active { background-color: #9D2146; } </style> <div id="contact_modal" class="modal fade" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="contact_modalTitle" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog" role="document"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header"> <h2 class="modal-title" id="contact_modalTitle">Contact Rep. 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Choose from the options above to find the right way to contact Breckinridge.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>  <div id="member-details"> <div class="ads footer leaderboard" data-zone="footer"> <div class="explainer">(<a href="/advertising">About Ads</a> | <a href="/accounts/membership">Hide These Ads</a>)</div> </div> <section id="voting-record"> <h2><span>Voting Record</span></h2> <h3>Missed Votes</h3> <p>From May 1809 to Mar 1817, Breckinridge missed 264 of 1,072 roll call votes, which is 24.6%. This is worse than the median of 16.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1817. The chart below reports missed votes over time.</p> <p><i> We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office. </i></p> <div id="voting_record_chart"> </div> <p style="text-align: center; margin-top: .5em; font-size: 90%;"><a href="#" onclick="$('#missedvotestable').slideDown(); $(this).hide(); return false;">Show the numbers...</a></p> <table id="missedvotestable" style="display: none"> <tr> <th>Time Period</th> <th>Votes Eligible</th> <th>Missed Votes</th> <th>Percent</th> <th>Percentile</th> </tr> <tr><td title="11th Congress, 1, House, Q1"> 1809 May-Jun </td> <td style="text-align: center">36</td> <td style="text-align: center">19</td> <td style="text-align: center">52.8%</td> <td style="text-align: center">93<sup>rd</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="11th Congress, 2, House, Q1"> Dec 1809-Jan 1810 </td> <td style="text-align: center">29</td> <td style="text-align: center">2</td> <td style="text-align: center">6.9%</td> <td style="text-align: center">21<sup>st</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="11th Congress, 2, House, Q2"> 1810 Feb-Apr </td> <td style="text-align: center">121</td> <td style="text-align: center">22</td> <td style="text-align: center">18.2%</td> <td style="text-align: center">43<sup>rd</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="11th Congress, 2, House, Q3"> 1810 May-May </td> <td style="text-align: center">3</td> <td style="text-align: center">0</td> <td style="text-align: center">0.0%</td> <td style="text-align: center">0<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="11th Congress, 3, House, Q1"> Dec 1810-Mar 1811 </td> <td style="text-align: center">104</td> <td style="text-align: center">25</td> <td style="text-align: center">24.0%</td> <td style="text-align: center">62<sup>nd</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="12th Congress, 1, House, Q1"> Nov 1811-Feb 1812 </td> <td style="text-align: center">82</td> <td style="text-align: center">7</td> <td style="text-align: center">8.5%</td> <td style="text-align: center">50<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="12th Congress, 1, House, Q2"> 1812 Mar-Jun </td> <td style="text-align: center">128</td> <td style="text-align: center">9</td> <td style="text-align: center">7.0%</td> <td style="text-align: center">29<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="12th Congress, 1, House, Q3"> 1812 Jul-Jul </td> <td style="text-align: center">14</td> <td style="text-align: center">4</td> <td style="text-align: center">28.6%</td> <td style="text-align: center">60<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="12th Congress, 2, House, Q1"> Nov 1812-Mar 1813 </td> <td style="text-align: center">90</td> <td style="text-align: center">33</td> <td style="text-align: center">36.7%</td> <td style="text-align: center">86<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="13th Congress, 1, House, Q1"> 1813 May-Aug </td> <td style="text-align: center">72</td> <td style="text-align: center">5</td> <td style="text-align: center">6.9%</td> <td style="text-align: center">32<sup>nd</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="13th Congress, 2, House, Q1"> Dec 1813-Apr 1814 </td> <td style="text-align: center">110</td> <td style="text-align: center">32</td> <td style="text-align: center">29.1%</td> <td style="text-align: center">79<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="13th Congress, 3, House, Q1"> 1814 Sep-Nov </td> <td style="text-align: center">54</td> <td style="text-align: center">54</td> <td style="text-align: center">100.0%</td> <td style="text-align: center">99<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="13th Congress, 3, House, Q2"> Dec 1814-Feb 1815 </td> <td style="text-align: center">106</td> <td style="text-align: center">26</td> <td style="text-align: center">24.5%</td> <td style="text-align: center">69<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="13th Congress, 3, House, Q3"> 1815 Mar-Mar </td> <td style="text-align: center">10</td> <td style="text-align: center">10</td> <td style="text-align: center">100.0%</td> <td style="text-align: center">83<sup>rd</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="14th Congress, 1, House, Q1"> Dec 1815-Apr 1816 </td> <td style="text-align: center">72</td> <td style="text-align: center">6</td> <td style="text-align: center">8.3%</td> <td style="text-align: center">16<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="14th Congress, 2, House, Q1"> 1817 Jan-Mar </td> <td style="text-align: center">41</td> <td style="text-align: center">10</td> <td style="text-align: center">24.4%</td> <td style="text-align: center">74<sup>th</sup></td></tr> </table>  </section> <section> <h2><span>Primary Sources</span></h2> <p>The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:</p> <ul style="list-style: none; padding: 0;"> <li><a href="https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators">unitedstates/congress-legislators</a>, a community project gathering congressional information</li> <li><a href="http://voteview.com/dwnl.htm">United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990</a> by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole. </li> <li>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</li> </ul> </section> </div> <div id="pronunciation_modal" class="modal fade" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="pronunciationModalTitle" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog" role="document"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header"> <h2 class="modal-title" id="pronunciationModalTitle">Pronunciation Guide</h2> <button type="button" class="btn-close btn-close-white" data-bs-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"></button> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <center> <p>James Breckinridge is pronounced:</p> <p style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold; font-family: monospace;"></p> <p>The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:</p> <p>Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.</p> </center> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div>  <footer id="footer"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <nav class="col-6 col-md-2"> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/about">About GovTrack</a></li> <li><a href="/about-our-data">About the Data</a></li> <li><a href="/contact">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="/legal">Privacy & Legal</a></li> </ul> </nav> <nav class="col-6 col-md-2"> <ul> <li><a href="/posts/news"><i class="fas fa-list fa-fw"></i>Site News</a></li> <li><a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.social/@GovTrack"><i class="fab fa-mastodon fa-fw"></i>Mastodon</a></li> <li><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/govtrack.us"><i class="fab fa-bluesky fa-fw"></i>Bluesky</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/govtrack"><i class="fas fa-dollar-sign fa-fw"></i><span>Patreon</span></a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/govtrack"><i class="fab fa-github fa-fw"></i><span>GitHub</span></a></li> </ul> </nav> <section class="col-12 col-md-8"> <p>GovTrack helps everyone learn about and track the activities of the United States Congress. 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