James Martin, former Representative from North Carolina's 9th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1984	Representative	North Carolina's 9^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Martin to other members of the House of Representatives 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 1973 to Oct 1984, Martin missed 617 of 6,832 roll call votes, which is 9.0%. This is worse than the median of 6.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1984. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	29^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	9	4.8%	30^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	12^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	6	3.3%	29^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	6	7.8%	45^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	12	7.1%	40^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	6	4.1%	44^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	12	8.6%	54^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	4	5.9%	54^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	17	8.5%	68^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	3	2.1%	23^rd
1975 Oct-Dec	188	15	8.0%	74^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	5	4.8%	52^nd
1976 Apr-Jun	265	31	11.7%	70^th
1976 Jul-Sep	279	16	5.7%	53^rd
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	3	3.0%	35^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	11	4.0%	34^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	13	6.6%	63^rd
1977 Oct-Dec	134	2	1.5%	18^th
1978 Jan-Mar	145	17	11.7%	80^th
1978 Apr-Jun	294	30	10.2%	67^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	4	1.3%	10^th
1978 Oct-Oct	74	12	16.2%	87^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	2	3.2%	50^th
1979 Apr-Jun	219	18	8.2%	61^st
1979 Jul-Sep	196	9	4.6%	45^th
1979 Oct-Dec	188	28	14.9%	78^th
1980 Jan-Mar	147	12	8.2%	50^th
1980 Apr-Jun	195	27	13.8%	81^st
1980 Jul-Sep	192	5	2.6%	22^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	66	8	12.1%	61^st
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	9	10.1%	69^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	7	6.6%	66^th
1981 Oct-Dec	141	14	9.9%	71^st
1982 Feb-Mar	48	1	2.1%	24^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	12	10.1%	80^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	7	3.6%	32^nd
1982 Oct-Dec	99	18	18.2%	81^st
1983 Jan-Mar	42	16	38.1%	99^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	10	5.5%	43^rd
1983 Jul-Sep	130	7	5.4%	64^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	19	13.3%	85^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	3	5.7%	46^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	53	23.8%	95^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	61	64.2%	99^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	35	97.2%	100^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Martin [R-NC9, 1973-1984] leaves office as Representative for North Carolina's 9th congressional district

Oct 12, 1984

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Martin [R-NC9, 1973-1984] takes office as Representative for North Carolina's 9th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Rep. James Martin

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices