Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson

Former Senator from Washington

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1959-1983	Senator	Washington
1953-1958	Senator	Washington
1947-1952	Representative	Washington's 2^nd District
1941-1946	Representative	Washington's 2^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Jackson to other members of the Senate in the 98^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 1953 to Oct 1984, Jackson missed 603 of 10,561 roll call votes, which is 5.7%. This is better than the median of 6.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1984. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1953 Jan-Mar	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	91	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Apr-Jun	38	3	7.9%	60^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	6	26.1%	80^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	2	4.4%	40^th
1957 Jul-Aug	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Feb-Mar	37	4	10.8%	83^rd
1958 Apr-Jun	80	6	7.5%	50^th
1958 Jul-Aug	76	5	6.6%	83^rd
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	125	2	1.6%	25^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	77	1	1.3%	0^th
1960 May-Aug	121	1	0.8%	11^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	137	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	62	2	3.2%	27^th
1962 Jul-Sep	122	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	1	5.6%	55^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	71	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	56	10	17.9%	77^th
1963 Oct-Dec	82	5	6.1%	38^th
1964 Jan-Mar	58	1	1.7%	38^th
1964 Apr-Jun	136	4	2.9%	69^th
1964 Jul-Sep	90	20	22.2%	77^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	1	100.0%	80^th
1965 Jan-Mar	32	6	18.8%	83^rd
1965 Apr-Jun	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jul-Sep	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Oct-Oct	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	56	1	1.8%	0^th
1966 Jul-Sep	118	1	0.8%	8^th
1966 Oct-Oct	35	2	5.7%	25^th
1967 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	68	5	7.4%	38^th
1967 Jul-Sep	78	3	3.8%	31^st
1967 Oct-Dec	106	7	6.6%	31^st
1968 Jan-Mar	69	4	5.8%	38^th
1968 Apr-Jun	86	5	5.8%	31^st
1968 Jul-Sep	89	1	1.1%	6^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	5	18.5%	44^th
1969 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	1	4.2%	22^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	44	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Oct-Dec	147	20	13.6%	48^th
1970 Jan-Mar	94	10	10.6%	39^th
1970 Apr-Jun	88	1	1.1%	4^th
1970 Jul-Sep	118	33	28.0%	74^th
1970 Oct-Dec	105	8	7.6%	26^th
1971 Feb-Mar	24	2	8.3%	37^th
1971 Apr-Jun	83	27	32.5%	86^th
1971 Jul-Sep	107	34	31.8%	96^th
1971 Oct-Dec	195	69	35.4%	93^rd
1972 Jan-Mar	106	102	96.2%	96^th
1972 Apr-Jun	126	19	15.1%	61^st
1972 Jul-Sep	206	1	0.5%	4^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	2	2.7%	14^th
1973 Jan-Mar	67	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	192	1	0.5%	6^th
1973 Jul-Sep	166	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	1	0.6%	6^th
1974 Jan-Mar	93	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Apr-Jun	178	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Oct-Dec	132	3	2.3%	19^th
1975 Jan-Mar	113	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Apr-Jun	140	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Jul-Sep	167	7	4.2%	24^th
1975 Oct-Dec	179	18	10.1%	52^nd
1976 Jan-Mar	92	49	53.3%	98^th
1976 Apr-Jun	260	43	16.5%	71^st
1976 Jul-Sep	313	0	0.0%	0^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Apr-Jun	178	1	0.6%	5^th
1977 Jul-Sep	233	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Oct-Dec	132	3	2.3%	11^th
1978 Jan-Mar	78	2	2.6%	7^th
1978 Apr-Jun	119	0	0.0%	0^th
1978 Jul-Sep	235	0	0.0%	0^th
1978 Oct-Oct	85	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Feb-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	121	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Jul-Sep	170	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Oct-Dec	184	0	0.0%	0^th
1980 Jan-Mar	67	0	0.0%	0^th
1980 Apr-Jun	216	1	0.5%	6^th
1980 Jul-Sep	178	1	0.6%	9^th
1980 Oct-Dec	84	5	6.0%	30^th
1981 Jan-Mar	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	124	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Jul-Sep	122	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Oct-Dec	190	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	85	25	29.4%	94^th
1983 Feb-Mar	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Apr-Jun	120	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Jul-Sep	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Jul-Sep	2	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^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 “Scoop” Jackson [D-WA, 1959-1983] leaves office as Senator from Washington

Sep 01, 1983

Elections and Offices

Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson [D-WA, 1959-1983] takes office as Senator from Washington

Jan 07, 1959

Elections and Offices

Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson [D-WA, 1959-1983] leaves office as Senator from Washington

Aug 24, 1958

Elections and Offices

Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson [D-WA, 1959-1983] takes office as Senator from Washington

Jan 03, 1953

Elections and Offices

Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson [D-WA, 1959-1983] leaves office as Representative for Washington's 2nd congressional district

Jul 07, 1952