Rep. James Hanley

Former Representative from New York's 32^nd District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1980	Representative	New York's 32^nd District
1971-1972	Representative	New York's 35^th District
1965-1971	Representative	New York's 34^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Hanley to other members of the House of Representatives 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 Dec 1895 to Dec 1980, Hanley missed 549 of 7,216 roll call votes, which is 7.6%. This is better than the median of 7.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	17	3	17.6%	0^th
1896 Mar-May	54	38	70.4%	0^th
1896 Jun-Jun	28	28	100.0%	0^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	38	61.3%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	4	14.3%	88^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	1	1.0%	13^th
1965 Oct-Oct	19	5	26.3%	87^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	1	2.0%	18^th
1966 Jul-Sep	71	11	15.5%	64^th
1966 Oct-Oct	39	2	5.1%	26^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	58^th
1967 Apr-Jun	56	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	4	8.9%	51^st
1969 Oct-Dec	86	5	5.8%	32^nd
1970 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	38^th
1970 Apr-Jun	73	9	12.3%	36^th
1970 Jul-Sep	75	9	12.0%	55^th
1970 Oct-Dec	78	14	17.9%	65^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	58^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	12	13.5%	59^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	1	1.4%	11^th
1971 Oct-Dec	131	9	6.9%	36^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	2	3.1%	20^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	2	1.8%	14^th
1972 Jul-Sep	99	3	3.0%	25^th
1972 Oct-Oct	49	13	26.5%	75^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	6	3.2%	18^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	8	6.2%	59^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	12	6.7%	51^st
1974 Jan-Mar	77	2	2.6%	19^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	14	8.3%	43^rd
1974 Jul-Sep	148	5	3.4%	32^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	139	9	6.5%	40^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	2	2.9%	30^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	3	1.5%	13^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	4	2.7%	27^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	8	4.2%	43^rd
1976 Jan-Mar	105	1	1.0%	22^nd
1976 Apr-Jun	263	15	5.7%	35^th
1976 Jul-Sep	279	21	7.5%	61^st
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	99	2	2.0%	30^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	9	3.3%	28^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	2	1.0%	12^th
1977 Oct-Dec	132	10	7.6%	63^rd
1978 Jan-Mar	149	8	5.4%	38^th
1978 Apr-Jun	298	15	5.0%	37^th
1978 Jul-Sep	306	15	4.9%	35^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	6	8.0%	62^nd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	10	15.9%	79^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	7	3.2%	22^nd
1979 Jul-Sep	197	21	10.7%	69^th
1979 Oct-Dec	182	35	19.2%	82^nd
1980 Jan-Mar	148	13	8.8%	49^th
1980 Apr-Jun	194	15	7.7%	49^th
1980 Jul-Sep	190	26	13.7%	74^th
1980 Oct-Dec	65	26	40.0%	92^nd

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

Rep. James Hanley [D-NY32, 1973-1980] leaves office as Representative for New York's 32nd congressional district

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Hanley [D-NY32, 1973-1980] takes office as Representative for New York's 32nd congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Hanley [D-NY32, 1973-1980] leaves office as Representative for New York's 35th congressional district

Oct 18, 1972

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Hanley [D-NY32, 1973-1980] takes office as Representative for New York's 35th congressional district

Jan 21, 1971

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Hanley [D-NY32, 1973-1980] leaves office as Representative for New York's 34th congressional district

Jan 02, 1971