Rep. Elwood Hillis

Former Representative from Indiana's 5^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1971-1986	Representative	Indiana's 5^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Hillis to other members of the House of Representatives in the 99^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 1971 to Oct 1986, Hillis missed 1,060 of 8,369 roll call votes, which is 12.7%. This is worse than the median of 5.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1986. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1971 Jan-Mar	22	4	18.2%	80^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	18	20.2%	84^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	11	15.3%	77^th
1971 Oct-Dec	132	22	16.7%	75^th
1972 Jan-Mar	62	12	19.4%	82^nd
1972 Apr-Jun	112	10	8.9%	43^rd
1972 Jul-Sep	98	19	19.4%	81^st
1972 Oct-Oct	50	7	14.0%	55^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	24	12.7%	76^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	8	6.2%	58^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	22	12.2%	76^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	7	9.1%	50^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	12	7.1%	38^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	8	5.4%	55^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	30	21.4%	89^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	1	1.5%	18^th
1975 Apr-Jun	197	10	5.1%	51^st
1975 Jul-Sep	146	11	7.5%	64^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	23	12.0%	89^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	11	10.5%	74^th
1976 Apr-Jun	266	39	14.7%	79^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	19	6.8%	58^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	6	85.7%	93^rd
1977 Jan-Mar	100	11	11.0%	79^th
1977 Apr-Jun	269	54	20.1%	95^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	5	2.5%	29^th
1977 Oct-Dec	130	22	16.9%	92^nd
1978 Jan-Mar	149	14	9.4%	67^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	20	6.7%	46^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	24	7.8%	55^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	25	33.3%	93^rd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	5	7.9%	71^st
1979 Apr-Jun	220	31	14.1%	85^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	21	10.7%	74^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	22	11.6%	64^th
1980 Jan-Mar	147	26	17.7%	82^nd
1980 Apr-Jun	195	11	5.6%	41^st
1980 Jul-Sep	192	20	10.4%	67^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	15	22.4%	82^nd
1981 Jan-Mar	13	3	23.1%	93^rd
1981 Apr-Jun	89	24	27.0%	96^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	6	5.7%	58^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	13	9.2%	65^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	2	4.2%	37^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	5	4.2%	50^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	22	11.4%	77^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	12	12.1%	68^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	10	23.3%	93^rd
1983 Apr-Jun	182	9	4.9%	41^st
1983 Jul-Sep	130	13	10.0%	87^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	11	7.7%	62^nd
1984 Jan-Mar	53	15	28.3%	94^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	12	5.4%	45^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	6	6.3%	59^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	7	19.4%	86^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	18	50.0%	99^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	9	5.8%	59^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	22	21.8%	97^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	39	26.4%	99^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	12	19.7%	84^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	27	21.1%	94^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	86	42.8%	98^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	17	28.3%	94^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Elwood Hillis [R-IN5, 1971-1986] leaves office as Representative for Indiana's 5th congressional district

Oct 18, 1986

Elections and Offices

Rep. Elwood Hillis [R-IN5, 1971-1986] takes office as Representative for Indiana's 5th congressional district

Jan 21, 1971