Rep. Delwin Clawson

Former Representative from California's 33^rd District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1975-1978	Representative	California's 33^rd District
1963-1974	Representative	California's 23^rd District

Sponsorship Analysis

Clawson was a moderate Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Clawson’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Clawson to other members of the House of Representatives in the 95^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 Jun 1963 to Oct 1978, Clawson missed 966 of 5,837 roll call votes, which is 16.5%. This is worse than the median of 8.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1963 Apr-Jun	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	25	1	4.0%	57^th
1965 Apr-Jun	47	9	19.1%	85^th
1965 Jul-Sep	96	21	21.9%	92^nd
1965 Oct-Oct	17	5	29.4%	93^rd
1966 Jan-Mar	29	5	17.2%	83^rd
1966 Apr-Jun	48	16	33.3%	89^th
1966 Jul-Sep	71	3	4.2%	28^th
1966 Oct-Oct	33	21	63.6%	83^rd
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	56	1	1.8%	85^th
1967 Jul-Sep	56	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	96	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	73	1	1.4%	76^th
1968 Jul-Sep	85	9	10.6%	93^rd
1968 Oct-Oct	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	25	3	12.0%	71^st
1969 Jul-Sep	45	4	8.9%	51^st
1969 Oct-Dec	85	11	12.9%	65^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	36^th
1970 Apr-Jun	73	12	16.4%	58^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	10	13.2%	56^th
1970 Oct-Dec	71	24	33.8%	91^st
1971 Jan-Mar	22	7	31.8%	97^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	10	11.2%	48^th
1971 Jul-Sep	69	8	11.6%	70^th
1971 Oct-Dec	131	20	15.3%	67^th
1972 Jan-Mar	62	16	25.8%	93^rd
1972 Apr-Jun	112	36	32.1%	92^nd
1972 Jul-Sep	99	8	8.1%	53^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	50	8	16.0%	59^th
1973 Jan-Mar	34	3	8.8%	61^st
1973 Apr-Jun	187	34	18.2%	86^th
1973 Jul-Sep	128	19	14.8%	88^th
1973 Oct-Dec	178	58	32.6%	95^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	5	6.5%	39^th
1974 Apr-Jun	168	20	11.9%	62^nd
1974 Jul-Sep	148	13	8.8%	72^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	136	47	34.6%	96^th
1975 Jan-Mar	67	4	6.0%	58^th
1975 Apr-Jun	197	26	13.2%	84^th
1975 Jul-Sep	144	16	11.1%	79^th
1975 Oct-Dec	187	27	14.4%	91^st
1976 Jan-Mar	103	8	7.8%	64^th
1976 Apr-Jun	259	50	19.3%	87^th
1976 Jul-Sep	278	10	3.6%	36^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	4	4.0%	39^th
1977 Apr-Jun	251	77	30.7%	96^th
1977 Jul-Sep	189	48	25.4%	95^th
1977 Oct-Dec	128	28	21.9%	94^th
1978 Jan-Mar	145	23	15.9%	82^nd
1978 Apr-Jun	279	54	19.4%	83^rd
1978 Jul-Sep	305	116	38.0%	94^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	5	6.7%	51^st

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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Delwin Clawson [R-CA33, 1975-1978] leaves office as Representative for California's 33rd congressional district

Oct 15, 1978

Elections and Offices

Rep. Delwin Clawson [R-CA33, 1975-1978] takes office as Representative for California's 33rd congressional district

Jan 14, 1975

Elections and Offices

Rep. Delwin Clawson [R-CA33, 1975-1978] leaves office as Representative for California's 23rd congressional district

Dec 20, 1974

Elections and Offices

Rep. Delwin Clawson [R-CA33, 1975-1978] takes office as Representative for California's 23rd congressional district

Jan 09, 1963