Rep. Charles Rose III

Former Representative from North Carolina's 7^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1996	Representative	North Carolina's 7^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Rose to other members of the House of Representatives in the 104^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 1973 to Sep 1996, Rose missed 1,562 of 12,936 roll call votes, which is 12.1%. This is worse than the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	59^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	4	2.1%	12^th
1973 Jul-Sep	129	6	4.7%	60^th
1973 Oct-Dec	179	14	7.8%	62^nd
1974 Jan-Mar	74	9	12.2%	71^st
1974 Apr-Jun	167	42	25.1%	93^rd
1974 Jul-Sep	147	13	8.8%	69^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	12	8.6%	62^nd
1975 Jan-Mar	68	6	8.8%	73^rd
1975 Apr-Jun	197	19	9.6%	71^st
1975 Jul-Sep	138	31	22.5%	97^th
1975 Oct-Dec	187	10	5.3%	56^th
1976 Jan-Mar	104	6	5.8%	54^th
1976 Apr-Jun	259	60	23.2%	90^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	24	8.6%	66^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	12	12.0%	79^th
1977 Apr-Jun	270	44	16.3%	90^th
1977 Jul-Sep	196	47	24.0%	96^th
1977 Oct-Dec	133	13	9.8%	73^rd
1978 Jan-Mar	149	8	5.4%	41^st
1978 Apr-Jun	296	52	17.6%	74^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	35	11.4%	61^st
1978 Oct-Oct	75	5	6.7%	57^th
1979 Jan-Mar	60	3	5.0%	70^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	48	21.8%	94^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	57	28.9%	96^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	35	18.4%	83^rd
1980 Jan-Mar	148	27	18.2%	84^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	34	17.3%	84^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	29	15.1%	80^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	17	25.4%	79^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	6	40.0%	96^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	13	14.6%	85^th
1981 Jul-Sep	105	22	21.0%	97^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	26	18.3%	92^nd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	17	35.4%	96^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	28	23.5%	93^rd
1982 Jul-Sep	191	42	22.0%	93^rd
1982 Oct-Dec	99	19	19.2%	84^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	2	4.7%	30^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	30	16.5%	90^th
1983 Jul-Sep	129	18	14.0%	92^nd
1983 Oct-Nov	143	27	18.9%	94^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	12	22.6%	92^nd
1984 Apr-Jun	223	27	12.1%	81^st
1984 Jul-Sep	95	6	6.3%	62^nd
1984 Oct-Oct	36	9	25.0%	92^nd
1985 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	22^nd
1985 Apr-Jun	154	1	0.6%	8^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	5	5.0%	55^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	13	8.8%	84^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	3	4.9%	44^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	16	12.5%	93^rd
1986 Jul-Sep	201	18	9.0%	81^st
1986 Oct-Oct	60	17	28.3%	95^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	6	15.4%	85^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	15	8.0%	78^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	5	5.3%	70^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	33	19.8%	94^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	7	14.3%	86^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	26	16.1%	93^rd
1988 Jul-Sep	152	11	7.2%	73^rd
1988 Oct-Oct	89	8	9.0%	79^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	54^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	7	6.7%	77^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	6	4.7%	75^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	8	6.6%	73^rd
1990 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	58^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	3	2.0%	40^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	7	3.8%	63^rd
1990 Oct-Oct	143	14	9.8%	85^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	31^st
1991 Apr-Jun	139	14	10.1%	90^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	6	7.4%	73^rd
1991 Oct-Nov	162	13	8.0%	87^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	3	1.6%	29^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	2	1.0%	24^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	6	14.6%	87^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	4	3.1%	58^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	13	6.8%	75^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	21	12.8%	97^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	16	11.9%	96^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	6	6.3%	76^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	23	10.5%	93^rd
1994 Jul-Sep	142	15	10.6%	89^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	2	3.9%	68^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	23	8.2%	93^rd
1995 Apr-Jun	189	11	5.8%	82^nd
1995 Jul-Sep	232	21	9.1%	90^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	20	10.8%	92^nd
1996 Jan-Mar	110	35	31.8%	97^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	16	8.8%	88^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	29	17.8%	96^th

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Charles Rose [D-NC7, 1973-1996] leaves office as Representative for North Carolina's 7th congressional district

Oct 04, 1996

Elections and Offices

Rep. Charles Rose [D-NC7, 1973-1996] takes office as Representative for North Carolina's 7th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973