Hiram Fong, former Senator from Hawaii

Dates	Title	Representing
1959-1976	Senator	Hawaii

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Fong to other members of the Senate in the 94^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 Aug 1959 to Oct 1976, Fong missed 803 of 6,253 roll call votes, which is 12.8%. This is worse than the median of 11.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1976. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 May-Aug	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	1	3.3%	64^th
1960 Jan-Apr	75	5	6.7%	39^th
1960 May-Aug	122	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	133	1	0.8%	30^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	1	2.8%	30^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	1	4.8%	66^th
1962 Apr-Jun	61	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	120	1	0.8%	8^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	64	5	7.8%	76^th
1963 Jul-Sep	54	4	7.4%	49^th
1963 Oct-Dec	83	2	2.4%	18^th
1964 Jan-Mar	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	134	1	0.7%	42^nd
1964 Jul-Sep	103	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Apr-Jun	102	26	25.5%	93^rd
1965 Jul-Sep	106	4	3.8%	30^th
1965 Oct-Oct	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	53	16	30.2%	88^th
1966 Jul-Sep	108	9	8.3%	56^th
1966 Oct-Oct	33	7	21.2%	48^th
1967 Jan-Mar	53	7	13.2%	44^th
1967 Apr-Jun	69	18	26.1%	87^th
1967 Jul-Sep	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	110	20	18.2%	65^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	1	1.4%	4^th
1968 Apr-Jun	96	14	14.6%	48^th
1968 Jul-Sep	88	11	12.5%	44^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	1	3.7%	24^th
1969 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	23	13	56.5%	97^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	1	2.3%	25^th
1969 Oct-Dec	154	7	4.5%	15^th
1970 Jan-Mar	99	3	3.0%	20^th
1970 Apr-Jun	88	3	3.4%	20^th
1970 Jul-Sep	121	33	27.3%	68^th
1970 Oct-Dec	103	62	60.2%	97^th
1971 Feb-Mar	23	4	17.4%	63^rd
1971 Apr-Jun	89	16	18.0%	55^th
1971 Jul-Sep	109	12	11.0%	42^nd
1971 Oct-Dec	202	10	5.0%	18^th
1972 Jan-Mar	119	13	10.9%	43^rd
1972 Apr-Jun	129	17	13.2%	43^rd
1972 Jul-Sep	205	23	11.2%	56^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	9	12.0%	52^nd
1973 Jan-Mar	67	12	17.9%	70^th
1973 Apr-Jun	186	29	15.6%	80^th
1973 Jul-Sep	166	14	8.4%	52^nd
1973 Oct-Dec	168	33	19.6%	73^rd
1974 Jan-Mar	93	6	6.5%	34^th
1974 Apr-Jun	178	36	20.2%	84^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	37	26.8%	90^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	26	19.5%	67^th
1975 Jan-Mar	116	7	6.0%	50^th
1975 Apr-Jun	140	18	12.9%	66^th
1975 Jul-Sep	167	9	5.4%	27^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	51	28.3%	95^th
1976 Jan-Mar	103	16	15.5%	70^th
1976 Apr-Jun	262	54	20.6%	80^th
1976 Jul-Sep	313	60	19.2%	66^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	13	100.0%	76^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. Hiram Fong [R-HI, 1959-1976] leaves office as Senator from Hawaii

Oct 01, 1976

Elections and Offices

Sen. Hiram Fong [R-HI, 1959-1976] takes office as Senator from Hawaii

Jan 07, 1959

Sen. Hiram Fong

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

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