Gordon Humphrey, former Senator from New Hampshire

Dates	Title	Representing
1979-1990	Senator	New Hampshire

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Humphrey to other members of the Senate in the 101^st 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 Feb 1979 to Oct 1990, Humphrey missed 183 of 4,848 roll call votes, which is 3.8%. This is better than the median of 4.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1990. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Feb-Mar	32	1	3.1%	47^th
1979 Apr-Jun	121	3	2.5%	22^nd
1979 Jul-Sep	170	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Oct-Dec	184	1	0.5%	7^th
1980 Jan-Mar	66	5	7.6%	69^th
1980 Apr-Jun	216	9	4.2%	29^th
1980 Jul-Sep	178	15	8.4%	66^th
1980 Oct-Dec	84	2	2.4%	18^th
1981 Jan-Mar	57	2	3.5%	63^rd
1981 Apr-Jun	124	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Jul-Sep	122	7	5.7%	64^th
1981 Oct-Dec	192	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Feb-Mar	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	127	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Jul-Sep	176	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Oct-Dec	86	2	2.3%	51^st
1983 Feb-Mar	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Apr-Jun	121	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Jul-Sep	92	11	12.0%	84^th
1983 Oct-Nov	101	15	14.9%	77^th
1984 Jan-Mar	45	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Apr-Jun	144	7	4.9%	41^st
1984 Jul-Sep	68	1	1.5%	21^st
1984 Oct-Oct	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	22	5	22.7%	96^th
1985 Apr-Jun	116	9	7.8%	83^rd
1985 Jul-Sep	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Oct-Dec	183	7	3.8%	52^nd
1986 Jan-Mar	51	2	3.9%	56^th
1986 Apr-Jun	103	11	10.7%	92^nd
1986 Jul-Sep	149	3	2.0%	55^th
1986 Oct-Oct	56	1	1.8%	62^nd
1987 Jan-Mar	50	1	2.0%	29^th
1987 Apr-Jun	123	2	1.6%	28^th
1987 Jul-Sep	120	4	3.3%	46^th
1987 Oct-Dec	127	6	4.7%	65^th
1988 Jan-Mar	84	9	10.7%	76^th
1988 Apr-Jun	136	6	4.4%	56^th
1988 Jul-Sep	127	6	4.7%	55^th
1988 Oct-Oct	31	6	19.4%	78^th
1989 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	77	9	11.7%	96^th
1989 Jul-Sep	118	4	3.4%	78^th
1989 Oct-Nov	91	2	2.2%	71^st
1990 Jan-Mar	48	2	4.2%	77^th
1990 Apr-Jun	95	4	4.2%	71^st
1990 Jul-Sep	114	3	2.6%	73^rd
1990 Oct-Oct	69	0	0.0%	0^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Gordon Humphrey [R-NH, 1979-1990] leaves office as Senator from New Hampshire

Oct 28, 1990

Elections and Offices

Sen. Gordon Humphrey [R-NH, 1979-1990] takes office as Senator from New Hampshire

Jan 15, 1979

Sen. Gordon Humphrey

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

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