Beryl Anthony Jr., former Representative from Arkansas's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1979-1992	Representative	Arkansas's 4^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Anthony was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Anthony’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Anthony to other members of the House of Representatives in the 102^nd 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 1979 to Oct 1992, Anthony missed 708 of 6,607 roll call votes, which is 10.7%. This is worse than the median of 4.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	63	2	3.2%	50^th
1979 Apr-Jun	219	20	9.1%	72^nd
1979 Jul-Sep	194	19	9.8%	72^nd
1979 Oct-Dec	184	16	8.7%	49^th
1980 Jan-Mar	146	26	17.8%	84^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	19	9.7%	61^st
1980 Jul-Sep	191	17	8.9%	64^th
1980 Oct-Dec	65	18	27.7%	89^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	3	20.0%	84^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	3	3.4%	27^th
1981 Jul-Sep	105	15	14.3%	89^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	15	10.6%	72^nd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	118	9	7.6%	72^nd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	16	8.3%	67^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	15	15.2%	75^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	2	4.7%	34^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	16	8.8%	64^th
1983 Jul-Sep	129	9	7.0%	77^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	24	16.8%	94^th
1984 Jan-Mar	52	8	15.4%	85^th
1984 Apr-Jun	220	46	20.9%	96^th
1984 Jul-Sep	91	24	26.4%	97^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	5	13.9%	78^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	53^rd
1985 Apr-Jun	154	11	7.1%	71^st
1985 Jul-Sep	101	6	5.9%	65^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	7	4.7%	59^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	10	16.4%	82^nd
1986 Apr-Jun	125	15	12.0%	93^rd
1986 Jul-Sep	199	12	6.0%	71^st
1986 Oct-Oct	60	2	3.3%	47^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	2	5.1%	61^st
1987 Apr-Jun	184	21	11.4%	88^th
1987 Jul-Sep	94	5	5.3%	71^st
1987 Oct-Dec	167	16	9.6%	74^th
1988 Feb-Mar	46	6	13.0%	86^th
1988 Apr-Jun	159	4	2.5%	44^th
1988 Jul-Sep	148	8	5.4%	63^rd
1988 Oct-Oct	89	5	5.6%	66^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	4	3.8%	54^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	11	8.6%	91^st
1989 Oct-Nov	119	11	9.2%	83^rd
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	31^st
1990 Apr-Jun	150	6	4.0%	62^nd
1990 Jul-Sep	183	6	3.3%	53^rd
1990 Oct-Oct	143	5	3.5%	50^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	5	8.1%	82^nd
1991 Apr-Jun	139	11	7.9%	81^st
1991 Jul-Sep	81	5	6.2%	64^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	9	5.6%	75^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	6	9.1%	75^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	77	41.6%	98^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	61	31.1%	95^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	10	24.4%	92^nd

Primary Sources

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

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Beryl Anthony [D-AR4, 1979-1992] leaves office as Representative for Arkansas's 4th congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Beryl Anthony [D-AR4, 1979-1992] takes office as Representative for Arkansas's 4th congressional district

Jan 15, 1979

Rep. Beryl Anthony Jr.

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices