Rep. Edward Patten

Former Representative from New Jersey's 15^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1963-1980	Representative	New Jersey's 15^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Patten to other members of the House of Representatives in the 96^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 1963 to Dec 1980, Patten missed 293 of 7,315 roll call votes, which is 4.0%. This is better than the median of 7.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1963 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	50	1	2.0%	96^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	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Oct-Oct	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	3	6.8%	46^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	19	25.7%	78^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	1	1.2%	10^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	1	1.1%	4^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Oct-Dec	133	2	1.5%	8^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Jul-Sep	100	11	11.0%	62^nd
1972 Oct-Oct	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	8	22.2%	86^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	6	3.2%	18^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	1	0.6%	8^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	4	5.2%	32^nd
1974 Apr-Jun	169	6	3.6%	20^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	5	3.5%	22^nd
1975 Jan-Mar	68	3	4.4%	39^th
1975 Apr-Jun	198	5	2.5%	28^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	12	8.2%	67^th
1975 Oct-Dec	190	5	2.6%	30^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	1	0.9%	15^th
1976 Apr-Jun	265	12	4.5%	25^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	2	0.7%	7^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	3	3.0%	32^nd
1977 Apr-Jun	272	13	4.8%	39^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	2	1.0%	12^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	4	3.0%	28^th
1978 Jan-Mar	147	3	2.0%	22^nd
1978 Apr-Jun	296	36	12.2%	71^st
1978 Jul-Sep	306	16	5.2%	39^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	7	9.3%	68^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	10	15.9%	79^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	7	3.2%	22^nd
1979 Jul-Sep	198	3	1.5%	11^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	24	12.6%	66^th
1980 Jan-Mar	147	16	10.9%	62^nd
1980 Apr-Jun	196	24	12.2%	68^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	12	6.3%	42^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	66	5	7.6%	41^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. Edward Patten [D-NJ15, 1963-1980] leaves office as Representative for New Jersey's 15th congressional district

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Rep. Edward Patten [D-NJ15, 1963-1980] takes office as Representative for New Jersey's 15th congressional district

Jan 09, 1963