Rep. Douglas Applegate

Former Representative from Ohio's 18^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1977-1994	Representative	Ohio's 18^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Applegate to other members of the House of Representatives in the 103^rd 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 1977 to Nov 1994, Applegate missed 747 of 9,308 roll call votes, which is 8.0%. This is worse than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1994. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1977 Jan-Mar	100	9	9.0%	73^rd
1977 Apr-Jun	273	23	8.4%	62^nd
1977 Jul-Sep	198	12	6.1%	59^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	2	1.5%	26^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	0	0.0%	0^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	49	16.3%	76^th
1978 Jul-Sep	307	16	5.2%	40^th
1978 Oct-Oct	73	27	37.0%	94^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	2	3.2%	53^rd
1979 Apr-Jun	218	14	6.4%	56^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	27	13.6%	83^rd
1979 Oct-Dec	190	29	15.3%	76^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	21	14.2%	77^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	21	10.7%	63^rd
1980 Jul-Sep	192	31	16.1%	86^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	23	34.3%	91^st
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	43^rd
1981 Apr-Jun	89	14	15.7%	88^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	13	12.3%	86^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	31	21.8%	95^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	11	22.9%	84^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	16	13.4%	87^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	32	16.6%	89^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	16	16.2%	80^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	7	16.3%	83^rd
1983 Apr-Jun	182	25	13.7%	85^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	9	6.9%	75^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	18	12.6%	86^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	4	7.5%	61^st
1984 Apr-Jun	223	22	9.9%	73^rd
1984 Jul-Sep	95	4	4.2%	51^st
1984 Oct-Oct	36	3	8.3%	61^st
1985 Jan-Mar	36	8	22.2%	94^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	21	13.6%	94^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	8	7.9%	73^rd
1985 Oct-Dec	148	3	2.0%	37^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	6	9.8%	65^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	2	1.6%	30^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	9	4.5%	64^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	1	1.7%	36^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	5	2.7%	37^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	2	2.1%	43^rd
1987 Oct-Dec	167	11	6.6%	57^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	2	4.1%	42^nd
1988 Apr-Jun	161	9	5.6%	66^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	9	5.9%	64^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	3	3.4%	57^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	2	14.3%	84^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	2	1.9%	32^nd
1989 Jul-Sep	128	2	1.6%	35^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	10	8.3%	82^nd
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	31^st
1990 Apr-Jun	150	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	5	2.7%	50^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	3	2.1%	40^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	2	3.2%	51^st
1991 Apr-Jun	139	2	1.4%	26^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	5	6.2%	69^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	3	1.9%	39^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	3	1.6%	30^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	4	2.0%	44^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	2	4.9%	60^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	4	3.1%	57^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	7	3.7%	60^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	1	0.6%	22^nd
1993 Oct-Nov	134	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	5	5.3%	67^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	5	2.3%	48^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	22	15.5%	92^nd
1994 Oct-Nov	51	26	51.0%	98^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Douglas Applegate [D-OH18, 1977-1994] leaves office as Representative for Ohio's 18th congressional district

Dec 01, 1994

Elections and Offices

Rep. Douglas Applegate [D-OH18, 1977-1994] takes office as Representative for Ohio's 18th congressional district

Jan 04, 1977