Sen. Abraham Ribicoff

Former Senator from Connecticut

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1963-1980	Senator	Connecticut
1949-1952	Representative	Connecticut's 1^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

Ribicoff was a far-left Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Ribicoff’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Ribicoff to other members of the Senate in the 96^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Jan 1963 to Dec 1980, Ribicoff missed 993 of 7,726 roll call votes, which is 12.9%. This is worse than the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1963 Jan-Mar	8	2	25.0%	80^th
1963 Apr-Jun	71	2	2.8%	32^nd
1963 Jul-Sep	53	3	5.7%	48^th
1963 Oct-Dec	84	3	3.6%	28^th
1964 Jan-Mar	57	2	3.5%	60^th
1964 Apr-Jun	135	3	2.2%	72^nd
1964 Jul-Sep	103	8	7.8%	52^nd
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	8	28.6%	83^rd
1965 Apr-Jun	103	5	4.9%	17^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	3	3.1%	42^nd
1965 Oct-Oct	15	1	6.7%	29^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	4	14.3%	48^th
1966 Apr-Jun	56	12	21.4%	68^th
1966 Jul-Sep	117	3	2.6%	24^th
1966 Oct-Oct	34	3	8.8%	36^th
1967 Jan-Mar	52	9	17.3%	66^th
1967 Apr-Jun	68	5	7.4%	38^th
1967 Jul-Sep	77	6	7.8%	38^th
1967 Oct-Dec	104	25	24.0%	72^nd
1968 Jan-Mar	62	6	9.7%	52^nd
1968 Apr-Jun	83	15	18.1%	55^th
1968 Jul-Sep	85	15	17.6%	52^nd
1968 Oct-Oct	24	23	95.8%	83^rd
1969 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	64^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	6	25.0%	87^th
1969 Jul-Sep	40	4	10.0%	77^th
1969 Oct-Dec	148	15	10.1%	41^st
1970 Jan-Mar	97	11	11.3%	51^st
1970 Apr-Jun	86	12	14.0%	59^th
1970 Jul-Sep	113	37	32.7%	79^th
1970 Oct-Dec	105	9	8.6%	28^th
1971 Feb-Mar	23	2	8.7%	39^th
1971 Apr-Jun	88	26	29.5%	82^nd
1971 Jul-Sep	107	21	19.6%	69^th
1971 Oct-Dec	199	14	7.0%	24^th
1972 Jan-Mar	118	27	22.9%	80^th
1972 Apr-Jun	122	37	30.3%	87^th
1972 Jul-Sep	204	25	12.3%	64^th
1972 Oct-Oct	69	9	13.0%	49^th
1973 Jan-Mar	67	13	19.4%	69^th
1973 Apr-Jun	190	10	5.3%	31^st
1973 Jul-Sep	166	2	1.2%	17^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	2	1.2%	6^th
1974 Jan-Mar	93	7	7.5%	37^th
1974 Apr-Jun	178	11	6.2%	35^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	15	10.9%	61^st
1974 Oct-Dec	133	10	7.5%	35^th
1975 Jan-Mar	117	8	6.8%	59^th
1975 Apr-Jun	139	5	3.6%	19^th
1975 Jul-Sep	167	10	6.0%	40^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	13	7.2%	46^th
1976 Jan-Mar	103	6	5.8%	46^th
1976 Apr-Jun	262	26	9.9%	46^th
1976 Jul-Sep	313	24	7.7%	25^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	8	61.5%	65^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	7	7.6%	50^th
1977 Apr-Jun	178	23	12.9%	71^st
1977 Jul-Sep	233	4	1.7%	20^th
1977 Oct-Dec	126	17	13.5%	73^rd
1978 Jan-Mar	78	10	12.8%	74^th
1978 Apr-Jun	119	6	5.0%	45^th
1978 Jul-Sep	234	36	15.4%	78^th
1978 Oct-Oct	85	9	10.6%	63^rd
1979 Feb-Mar	32	3	9.4%	70^th
1979 Apr-Jun	121	17	14.0%	74^th
1979 Jul-Sep	170	52	30.6%	97^th
1979 Oct-Dec	183	45	24.6%	91^st
1980 Jan-Mar	67	16	23.9%	90^th
1980 Apr-Jun	215	55	25.6%	88^th
1980 Jul-Sep	177	43	24.3%	84^th
1980 Oct-Dec	84	58	69.0%	98^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Abraham Ribicoff [D-CT, 1963-1980] leaves office as Senator from Connecticut

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Sen. Abraham Ribicoff [D-CT, 1963-1980] takes office as Senator from Connecticut

Jan 09, 1963

Elections and Offices

Sen. Abraham Ribicoff [D-CT, 1963-1980] leaves office as Representative for Connecticut's 1st congressional district

Jul 07, 1952

Elections and Offices

Sen. Abraham Ribicoff [D-CT, 1963-1980] takes office as Representative for Connecticut's 1st congressional district

Jan 03, 1949