Rep. Ancher Nelsen
Former Representative from Minnesota's 2nd District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Minnesota's 2nd District | |
| Representative | Minnesota's 2nd District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Nelsen was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Nelsen’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Nelsen to other members of the House of Representatives in the 93rd 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
Some of Nelsen’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 16883 (93rd): Eastern Wilderness Areas Act
- H.R. 15868 (93rd): A bill to amend section 5051 of the Internal Revenue Code of ...
- H.R. 15345 (93rd): A bill to prohibit the importation of fresh, chilled, or frozen cattle ...
- H.R. 15247 (93rd): Coal Research Laboratory and Energy Research Fellowship Act
- H.J.Res. 1050 (93rd): A joint Resolution designating the premises occupied by the Chief of Naval ...
- H.R. 14814 (93rd): Combined Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance-Income Tax Reporting Amendments
- H.R. 13987 (93rd): Health Resources Planning Act
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Voting Record
From Jan 1959 to Dec 1974, Nelsen missed 307 of 3,631 roll call votes, which is 8.5%. This is better than the median of 8.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1974. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills