Sen. Harrison Williams Jr.

Former Senator from New Jersey

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1959-1982	Senator	New Jersey
1953-1956	Representative	New Jersey's 6^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Williams was a far-left Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Williams’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Williams to other members of the Senate in the 97^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 1959 to Mar 1982, Williams missed 875 of 9,170 roll call votes, which is 9.5%. This is worse than the median of 6.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	126	9	7.1%	60^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	77	3	3.9%	10^th
1960 May-Aug	119	4	3.4%	45^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	2	6.5%	58^th
1961 May-Aug	134	7	5.2%	77^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	1	2.8%	46^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	59	3	5.1%	31^st
1962 Jul-Sep	120	5	4.2%	46^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	1	5.6%	54^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	71	9	12.7%	93^rd
1963 Jul-Sep	57	4	7.0%	47^th
1963 Oct-Dec	82	6	7.3%	53^rd
1964 Jan-Mar	58	3	5.2%	60^th
1964 Apr-Jun	136	2	1.5%	53^rd
1964 Jul-Sep	101	10	9.9%	47^th
1965 Jan-Mar	32	13	40.6%	93^rd
1965 Apr-Jun	106	8	7.5%	29^th
1965 Jul-Sep	106	11	10.4%	86^th
1965 Oct-Oct	15	2	13.3%	57^th
1966 Jan-Mar	27	7	25.9%	87^th
1966 Apr-Jun	54	5	9.3%	33^rd
1966 Jul-Sep	119	17	14.3%	87^th
1966 Oct-Oct	35	8	22.9%	53^rd
1967 Jan-Mar	52	3	5.8%	21^st
1967 Apr-Jun	70	10	14.3%	68^th
1967 Jul-Sep	78	10	12.8%	58^th
1967 Oct-Dec	102	8	7.8%	37^th
1968 Jan-Mar	68	5	7.4%	58^th
1968 Apr-Jun	93	8	8.6%	42^nd
1968 Jul-Sep	88	8	9.1%	32^nd
1968 Oct-Oct	27	1	3.7%	21^st
1969 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	2	8.3%	46^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	2	4.5%	46^th
1969 Oct-Dec	149	21	14.1%	50^th
1970 Jan-Mar	98	8	8.2%	38^th
1970 Apr-Jun	91	21	23.1%	88^th
1970 Jul-Sep	116	29	25.0%	58^th
1970 Oct-Dec	105	15	14.3%	38^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	5	20.0%	67^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	17	19.1%	55^th
1971 Jul-Sep	108	15	13.9%	61^st
1971 Oct-Dec	199	18	9.0%	29^th
1972 Jan-Mar	117	6	5.1%	19^th
1972 Apr-Jun	127	37	29.1%	90^th
1972 Jul-Sep	205	24	11.7%	61^st
1972 Oct-Oct	75	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Jan-Mar	65	15	23.1%	79^th
1973 Apr-Jun	186	34	18.3%	87^th
1973 Jul-Sep	165	5	3.0%	37^th
1973 Oct-Dec	167	10	6.0%	34^th
1974 Jan-Mar	93	8	8.6%	43^rd
1974 Apr-Jun	178	11	6.2%	33^rd
1974 Jul-Sep	138	6	4.3%	25^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	17	12.8%	55^th
1975 Jan-Mar	117	5	4.3%	47^th
1975 Apr-Jun	140	7	5.0%	22^nd
1975 Jul-Sep	167	12	7.2%	58^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	4	2.2%	7^th
1976 Jan-Mar	102	7	6.9%	58^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	49	18.6%	78^th
1976 Jul-Sep	312	22	7.1%	22^nd
1976 Oct-Oct	13	1	7.7%	29^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	6	6.5%	45^th
1977 Apr-Jun	177	7	4.0%	35^th
1977 Jul-Sep	233	7	3.0%	27^th
1977 Oct-Dec	132	13	9.8%	56^th
1978 Jan-Mar	75	6	8.0%	55^th
1978 Apr-Jun	119	4	3.4%	31^st
1978 Jul-Sep	234	10	4.3%	29^th
1978 Oct-Oct	85	4	4.7%	32^nd
1979 Feb-Mar	32	3	9.4%	69^th
1979 Apr-Jun	121	22	18.2%	89^th
1979 Jul-Sep	170	1	0.6%	12^th
1979 Oct-Dec	183	18	9.8%	67^th
1980 Jan-Mar	67	5	7.5%	54^th
1980 Apr-Jun	216	21	9.7%	56^th
1980 Jul-Sep	178	7	3.9%	38^th
1980 Oct-Dec	84	5	6.0%	28^th
1981 Jan-Mar	57	10	17.5%	94^th
1981 Apr-Jun	124	36	29.0%	97^th
1981 Jul-Sep	122	13	10.7%	81^st
1981 Oct-Dec	192	15	7.8%	59^th
1982 Feb-Mar	50	36	72.0%	99^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. Harrison Williams [D-NJ, 1959-1982] leaves office as Senator from New Jersey

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Sen. Harrison Williams [D-NJ, 1959-1982] takes office as Senator from New Jersey

Jan 07, 1959

Elections and Offices

Sen. Harrison Williams [D-NJ, 1959-1982] leaves office as Representative for New Jersey's 6th congressional district

Jul 27, 1956

Elections and Offices

Sen. Harrison Williams [D-NJ, 1959-1982] takes office as Representative for New Jersey's 6th congressional district

Jan 03, 1953