Edward Brooke III, former Senator from Massachusetts

Dates	Title	Representing
1967-1978	Senator	Massachusetts

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Brooke to other members of the Senate 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 Jan 1967 to Oct 1978, Brooke missed 667 of 5,687 roll call votes, which is 11.7%. This is worse than the median of 10.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jan-Mar	47	14	29.8%	80^th
1967 Apr-Jun	69	10	14.5%	70^th
1967 Jul-Sep	65	4	6.2%	33^rd
1967 Oct-Dec	96	16	16.7%	60^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	9	13.0%	58^th
1968 Apr-Jun	92	8	8.7%	25^th
1968 Jul-Sep	85	9	10.6%	38^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	3	11.1%	35^th
1969 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	55^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	7	29.2%	92^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	44	4	9.1%	67^th
1969 Oct-Dec	146	14	9.6%	41^st
1970 Jan-Mar	97	6	6.2%	35^th
1970 Apr-Jun	89	6	6.7%	41^st
1970 Jul-Sep	121	9	7.4%	18^th
1970 Oct-Dec	105	1	1.0%	4^th
1971 Feb-Mar	24	2	8.3%	32^nd
1971 Apr-Jun	66	14	21.2%	69^th
1971 Jul-Sep	109	23	21.1%	72^nd
1971 Oct-Dec	200	15	7.5%	29^th
1972 Jan-Mar	116	3	2.6%	10^th
1972 Apr-Jun	127	19	15.0%	47^th
1972 Jul-Sep	203	16	7.9%	45^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	6	8.0%	36^th
1973 Jan-Mar	67	16	23.9%	85^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	37	19.4%	87^th
1973 Jul-Sep	161	18	11.2%	73^rd
1973 Oct-Dec	168	28	16.7%	70^th
1974 Jan-Mar	93	3	3.2%	26^th
1974 Apr-Jun	178	14	7.9%	59^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	13	9.4%	51^st
1974 Oct-Dec	132	6	4.5%	30^th
1975 Jan-Mar	117	9	7.7%	62^nd
1975 Apr-Jun	139	23	16.5%	75^th
1975 Jul-Sep	167	15	9.0%	57^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	10	5.6%	37^th
1976 Jan-Mar	103	14	13.6%	72^nd
1976 Apr-Jun	263	34	12.9%	60^th
1976 Jul-Sep	313	15	4.8%	16^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	10	10.9%	60^th
1977 Apr-Jun	178	14	7.9%	45^th
1977 Jul-Sep	233	11	4.7%	36^th
1977 Oct-Dec	131	16	12.2%	61^st
1978 Jan-Mar	78	10	12.8%	70^th
1978 Apr-Jun	119	23	19.3%	86^th
1978 Jul-Sep	235	83	35.3%	93^rd
1978 Oct-Oct	85	26	30.6%	84^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. Edward Brooke [R-MA, 1967-1978] leaves office as Senator from Massachusetts

Oct 15, 1978

Elections and Offices

Sen. Edward Brooke [R-MA, 1967-1978] takes office as Senator from Massachusetts

Jan 10, 1967

Sen. Edward Brooke III

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

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