Sen. Jacob Javits

Former Senator from New York

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1957-1980	Senator	New York
1953-1954	Representative	New York's 21^st District
1947-1952	Representative	New York's 21^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

Javits was a centrist Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Javits’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Javits 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

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Voting Record

From Feb 1957 to Dec 1980, Javits missed 1,040 of 8,817 roll call votes, which is 11.8%. 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
1957 Jan-Mar	12	1	8.3%	80^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	1	2.2%	10^th
1957 Jul-Aug	44	1	2.3%	73^rd
1958 Feb-Mar	36	5	13.9%	91^st
1958 Apr-Jun	82	1	1.2%	36^th
1958 Jul-Aug	73	10	13.7%	91^st
1959 Jan-Apr	56	1	1.8%	56^th
1959 May-Aug	126	5	4.0%	50^th
1959 Sep-Sep	29	1	3.4%	75^th
1960 Jan-Apr	76	8	10.5%	75^th
1960 May-Aug	122	8	6.6%	65^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	136	2	1.5%	37^th
1961 Sep-Sep	33	4	12.1%	68^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	61	1	1.6%	16^th
1962 Jul-Sep	109	9	8.3%	63^rd
1962 Oct-Oct	17	2	11.8%	84^th
1963 Jan-Mar	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	66	13	19.7%	96^th
1963 Jul-Sep	57	2	3.5%	32^nd
1963 Oct-Dec	85	2	2.4%	20^th
1964 Jan-Mar	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	135	7	5.2%	80^th
1964 Jul-Sep	102	7	6.9%	48^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	32	2	6.3%	21^st
1965 Apr-Jun	104	13	12.5%	71^st
1965 Jul-Sep	104	2	1.9%	21^st
1965 Oct-Oct	15	3	20.0%	50^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	5	17.9%	60^th
1966 Apr-Jun	54	6	11.1%	36^th
1966 Jul-Sep	116	5	4.3%	44^th
1966 Oct-Oct	34	8	23.5%	64^th
1967 Jan-Mar	50	17	34.0%	86^th
1967 Apr-Jun	65	25	38.5%	90^th
1967 Jul-Sep	76	6	7.9%	41^st
1967 Oct-Dec	104	15	14.4%	55^th
1968 Jan-Mar	67	7	10.4%	55^th
1968 Apr-Jun	81	22	27.2%	72^nd
1968 Jul-Sep	73	22	30.1%	62^nd
1968 Oct-Oct	20	9	45.0%	62^nd
1969 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	2	8.3%	44^th
1969 Jul-Sep	43	4	9.3%	67^th
1969 Oct-Dec	152	12	7.9%	28^th
1970 Jan-Mar	97	22	22.7%	67^th
1970 Apr-Jun	88	5	5.7%	36^th
1970 Jul-Sep	112	24	21.4%	56^th
1970 Oct-Dec	96	21	21.9%	58^th
1971 Feb-Mar	24	2	8.3%	34^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	15	16.9%	49^th
1971 Jul-Sep	106	20	18.9%	64^th
1971 Oct-Dec	201	40	19.9%	71^st
1972 Jan-Mar	119	4	3.4%	16^th
1972 Apr-Jun	127	9	7.1%	29^th
1972 Jul-Sep	203	36	17.7%	71^st
1972 Oct-Oct	75	5	6.7%	33^rd
1973 Jan-Mar	67	14	20.9%	75^th
1973 Apr-Jun	177	19	10.7%	69^th
1973 Jul-Sep	157	15	9.6%	69^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	31	18.5%	69^th
1974 Jan-Mar	93	9	9.7%	48^th
1974 Apr-Jun	178	26	14.6%	69^th
1974 Jul-Sep	135	32	23.7%	78^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	21	15.8%	54^th
1975 Jan-Mar	117	1	0.9%	19^th
1975 Apr-Jun	140	10	7.1%	40^th
1975 Jul-Sep	165	28	17.0%	87^th
1975 Oct-Dec	178	10	5.6%	37^th
1976 Jan-Mar	102	2	2.0%	17^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	34	12.9%	60^th
1976 Jul-Sep	312	28	9.0%	33^rd
1976 Oct-Oct	13	5	38.5%	59^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	4	4.3%	28^th
1977 Apr-Jun	177	13	7.3%	46^th
1977 Jul-Sep	233	26	11.2%	78^th
1977 Oct-Dec	130	24	18.5%	83^rd
1978 Jan-Mar	78	3	3.8%	18^th
1978 Apr-Jun	119	7	5.9%	53^rd
1978 Jul-Sep	235	24	10.2%	54^th
1978 Oct-Oct	85	7	8.2%	54^th
1979 Feb-Mar	32	3	9.4%	70^th
1979 Apr-Jun	121	9	7.4%	53^rd
1979 Jul-Sep	170	6	3.5%	25^th
1979 Oct-Dec	183	12	6.6%	43^rd
1980 Jan-Mar	67	5	7.5%	53^rd
1980 Apr-Jun	216	38	17.6%	79^th
1980 Jul-Sep	177	65	36.7%	92^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	84	30	35.7%	87^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. Jacob Javits [R-NY, 1957-1980] leaves office as Senator from New York

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Sen. Jacob Javits [R-NY, 1957-1980] takes office as Senator from New York

Jan 03, 1957

Elections and Offices

Sen. Jacob Javits [R-NY, 1957-1980] leaves office as Representative for New York's 21st congressional district

Dec 02, 1954

Elections and Offices

Sen. Jacob Javits [R-NY, 1957-1980] takes office as Representative for New York's 21st congressional district

Jan 03, 1953

Elections and Offices

Sen. Jacob Javits [R-NY, 1957-1980] leaves office as Representative for New York's 21st congressional district

Jul 07, 1952