James Clarke, former Representative from North Carolina's 11th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1987-1990	Representative	North Carolina's 11^th District
1983-1984	Representative	North Carolina's 11^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Clarke was a moderate Democratic follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Clarke’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Clarke to other members of the House of Representatives in the 101^st 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 1983 to Oct 1990, Clarke missed 129 of 2,747 roll call votes, which is 4.7%. This is worse than the median of 4.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1990. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1983 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	18^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	9	4.9%	42^nd
1983 Jul-Sep	130	4	3.1%	42^nd
1983 Oct-Nov	143	9	6.3%	57^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	1	1.9%	23^rd
1984 Apr-Jun	223	19	8.5%	66^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	10	10.5%	79^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	3	8.3%	58^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	12	6.4%	66^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	2	2.1%	40^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	22	13.2%	90^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	3	6.1%	56^th
1988 Apr-Jun	160	7	4.4%	56^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	3	2.0%	26^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	10	11.2%	82^nd
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	1	1.0%	17^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	2	1.6%	34^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	3	2.5%	30^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	1	0.7%	18^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	4	2.2%	39^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	3	2.1%	35^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills