Henry Bellmon, former Senator from Oklahoma

Dates	Title	Representing
1969-1980	Senator	Oklahoma

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Bellmon to other members of the Senate 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

Some of Bellmon’s most recently sponsored bills include...

S. 3236 (96th): A bill to provide that royalties received by the United States from ...
S. 3208 (96th): Food and Population Centers Act
S. 3128 (96th): A bill to remove certain lands from the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, ...
S. 3022 (96th): A bill to encourage States to provide unemployment benefits to certain partially ...
S. 2952 (96th): A bill to provide for the use and distribution of Seminole judgment ...
S. 2826 (96th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect ...
S. 2600 (96th): A bill to amend the charter of the United States Olympic Committee ...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1969 to Dec 1980, Bellmon missed 1,071 of 6,237 roll call votes, which is 17.2%. This is worse than the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1969 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	1	4.2%	21^st
1969 Jul-Sep	44	4	9.1%	64^th
1969 Oct-Dec	153	14	9.2%	36^th
1970 Jan-Mar	97	8	8.2%	44^th
1970 Apr-Jun	91	5	5.5%	28^th
1970 Jul-Sep	120	34	28.3%	74^th
1970 Oct-Dec	105	50	47.6%	90^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	4	16.0%	50^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	18	20.2%	60^th
1971 Jul-Sep	109	29	26.6%	82^nd
1971 Oct-Dec	202	50	24.8%	84^th
1972 Jan-Mar	119	28	23.5%	82^nd
1972 Apr-Jun	129	29	22.5%	71^st
1972 Jul-Sep	206	46	22.3%	73^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	75	10	13.3%	51^st
1973 Jan-Mar	67	11	16.4%	65^th
1973 Apr-Jun	192	38	19.8%	87^th
1973 Jul-Sep	166	27	16.3%	90^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	35	20.8%	75^th
1974 Jan-Mar	93	13	14.0%	67^th
1974 Apr-Jun	178	55	30.9%	91^st
1974 Jul-Sep	138	73	52.9%	96^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	105	78.9%	96^th
1975 Jan-Mar	117	9	7.7%	63^rd
1975 Apr-Jun	140	20	14.3%	68^th
1975 Jul-Sep	167	29	17.4%	89^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	6	3.3%	19^th
1976 Jan-Mar	103	1	1.0%	5^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	48	18.3%	75^th
1976 Jul-Sep	312	26	8.3%	30^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	13	100.0%	86^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	6	6.5%	41^st
1977 Apr-Jun	178	12	6.7%	43^rd
1977 Jul-Sep	232	28	12.1%	81^st
1977 Oct-Dec	132	3	2.3%	13^th
1978 Jan-Mar	78	18	23.1%	90^th
1978 Apr-Jun	119	9	7.6%	61^st
1978 Jul-Sep	235	33	14.0%	71^st
1978 Oct-Oct	85	4	4.7%	31^st
1979 Feb-Mar	32	1	3.1%	38^th
1979 Apr-Jun	121	1	0.8%	9^th
1979 Jul-Sep	170	27	15.9%	84^th
1979 Oct-Dec	184	22	12.0%	69^th
1980 Jan-Mar	67	11	16.4%	81^st
1980 Apr-Jun	216	17	7.9%	45^th
1980 Jul-Sep	177	32	18.1%	80^th
1980 Oct-Dec	84	8	9.5%	39^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. Henry Bellmon [R-OK, 1969-1980] leaves office as Senator from Oklahoma

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Sen. Henry Bellmon [R-OK, 1969-1980] takes office as Senator from Oklahoma

Jan 03, 1969

Sen. Henry Bellmon

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices