Sen. Charles Percy

Former Senator from Illinois

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1967-1984	Senator	Illinois

Sponsorship Analysis

Percy was a centrist Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Percy’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Percy to other members of the Senate in the 98^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

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Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Jan 1967 to Oct 1984, Percy missed 1,303 of 8,311 roll call votes, which is 15.7%. This is worse than the median of 6.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1984. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jan-Mar	50	7	14.0%	69^th
1967 Apr-Jun	66	13	19.7%	81^st
1967 Jul-Sep	72	13	18.1%	75^th
1967 Oct-Dec	107	26	24.3%	75^th
1968 Jan-Mar	64	24	37.5%	94^th
1968 Apr-Jun	90	9	10.0%	38^th
1968 Jul-Sep	80	29	36.3%	69^th
1968 Oct-Oct	26	4	15.4%	38^th
1969 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	83^rd
1969 Apr-Jun	23	2	8.7%	61^st
1969 Jul-Sep	44	5	11.4%	78^th
1969 Oct-Dec	149	26	17.4%	57^th
1970 Jan-Mar	88	20	22.7%	65^th
1970 Apr-Jun	82	18	22.0%	78^th
1970 Jul-Sep	114	31	27.2%	70^th
1970 Oct-Dec	100	28	28.0%	70^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	4	16.0%	44^th
1971 Apr-Jun	87	9	10.3%	32^nd
1971 Jul-Sep	108	30	27.8%	89^th
1971 Oct-Dec	197	41	20.8%	79^th
1972 Jan-Mar	114	19	16.7%	64^th
1972 Apr-Jun	127	12	9.4%	36^th
1972 Jul-Sep	202	55	27.2%	82^nd
1972 Oct-Oct	75	3	4.0%	21^st
1973 Jan-Mar	67	13	19.4%	74^th
1973 Apr-Jun	188	14	7.4%	40^th
1973 Jul-Sep	158	16	10.1%	66^th
1973 Oct-Dec	156	43	27.6%	86^th
1974 Jan-Mar	93	9	9.7%	46^th
1974 Apr-Jun	174	37	21.3%	84^th
1974 Jul-Sep	135	42	31.1%	92^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	129	41	31.8%	84^th
1975 Jan-Mar	114	21	18.4%	88^th
1975 Apr-Jun	140	14	10.0%	57^th
1975 Jul-Sep	165	26	15.8%	88^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	22	12.2%	60^th
1976 Jan-Mar	102	15	14.7%	74^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	43	16.3%	67^th
1976 Jul-Sep	313	27	8.6%	31^st
1976 Oct-Oct	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	5	5.4%	37^th
1977 Apr-Jun	177	17	9.6%	53^rd
1977 Jul-Sep	233	54	23.2%	93^rd
1977 Oct-Dec	130	19	14.6%	81^st
1978 Jan-Mar	78	4	5.1%	32^nd
1978 Apr-Jun	118	13	11.0%	72^nd
1978 Jul-Sep	235	49	20.9%	82^nd
1978 Oct-Oct	85	17	20.0%	82^nd
1979 Feb-Mar	32	9	28.1%	96^th
1979 Apr-Jun	120	24	20.0%	93^rd
1979 Jul-Sep	169	1	0.6%	12^th
1979 Oct-Dec	184	13	7.1%	51^st
1980 Jan-Mar	67	1	1.5%	17^th
1980 Apr-Jun	216	21	9.7%	57^th
1980 Jul-Sep	178	6	3.4%	31^st
1980 Oct-Dec	84	29	34.5%	95^th
1981 Jan-Mar	57	3	5.3%	76^th
1981 Apr-Jun	124	6	4.8%	68^th
1981 Jul-Sep	121	7	5.8%	68^th
1981 Oct-Dec	192	8	4.2%	36^th
1982 Feb-Mar	77	2	2.6%	56^th
1982 Apr-Jun	127	19	15.0%	89^th
1982 Jul-Sep	175	13	7.4%	80^th
1982 Oct-Dec	86	4	4.7%	67^th
1983 Feb-Mar	54	8	14.8%	89^th
1983 Apr-Jun	120	10	8.3%	78^th
1983 Jul-Sep	92	19	20.7%	91^st
1983 Oct-Nov	101	25	24.8%	91^st
1984 Jan-Mar	45	19	42.2%	94^th
1984 Apr-Jun	144	22	15.3%	85^th
1984 Jul-Sep	68	20	29.4%	96^th
1984 Oct-Oct	35	24	68.6%	99^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. Charles Percy [R-IL, 1967-1984] leaves office as Senator from Illinois

Oct 12, 1984

Elections and Offices

Sen. Charles Percy [R-IL, 1967-1984] takes office as Senator from Illinois

Jan 10, 1967