Sen. Jennings Randolph

Former Senator from West Virginia

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1961-1984	Senator	West Virginia
1958-1960	Senator	West Virginia
1939-1946	Representative	West Virginia's 2^nd District
1937-1938	Representative	West Virginia's 2^nd District
1935-1936	Representative	West Virginia's 2^nd District
1933-1934	Representative	West Virginia's 2^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Randolph to other members of the Senate 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

Some of Randolph’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1959 to Oct 1984, Randolph missed 547 of 10,109 roll call votes, which is 5.4%. This is better than the median of 6.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1984. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	56	1	1.8%	63^rd
1959 May-Aug	123	11	8.9%	63^rd
1959 Sep-Sep	28	3	10.7%	75^th
1960 Jan-Apr	73	3	4.1%	13^th
1960 May-Aug	119	9	7.6%	67^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	4	12.9%	90^th
1961 May-Aug	130	5	3.8%	73^rd
1961 Sep-Sep	33	3	9.1%	64^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	59	3	5.1%	36^th
1962 Jul-Sep	120	2	1.7%	36^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	2	25.0%	85^th
1963 Apr-Jun	70	6	8.6%	92^nd
1963 Jul-Sep	51	1	2.0%	23^rd
1963 Oct-Dec	85	6	7.1%	46^th
1964 Jan-Mar	50	10	20.0%	85^th
1964 Apr-Jun	125	9	7.2%	77^th
1964 Jul-Sep	102	11	10.8%	54^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	1	100.0%	80^th
1965 Jan-Mar	31	3	9.7%	50^th
1965 Apr-Jun	98	8	8.2%	42^nd
1965 Jul-Sep	101	9	8.9%	83^rd
1965 Oct-Oct	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	27	1	3.7%	42^nd
1966 Apr-Jun	52	4	7.7%	25^th
1966 Jul-Sep	116	6	5.2%	67^th
1966 Oct-Oct	34	13	38.2%	83^rd
1967 Jan-Mar	50	3	6.0%	31^st
1967 Apr-Jun	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	75	5	6.7%	50^th
1967 Oct-Dec	99	8	8.1%	44^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	3	4.3%	25^th
1968 Apr-Jun	86	9	10.5%	44^th
1968 Jul-Sep	81	5	6.2%	19^th
1968 Oct-Oct	22	5	22.7%	63^rd
1969 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	2	8.3%	43^rd
1969 Jul-Sep	44	3	6.8%	57^th
1969 Oct-Dec	150	8	5.3%	13^th
1970 Jan-Mar	99	7	7.1%	30^th
1970 Apr-Jun	91	3	3.3%	9^th
1970 Jul-Sep	118	17	14.4%	35^th
1970 Oct-Dec	105	8	7.6%	26^th
1971 Feb-Mar	24	4	16.7%	63^rd
1971 Apr-Jun	87	8	9.2%	29^th
1971 Jul-Sep	105	3	2.9%	14^th
1971 Oct-Dec	197	27	13.7%	46^th
1972 Jan-Mar	115	6	5.2%	18^th
1972 Apr-Jun	126	6	4.8%	18^th
1972 Jul-Sep	199	12	6.0%	39^th
1972 Oct-Oct	73	16	21.9%	61^st
1973 Jan-Mar	67	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	186	7	3.8%	20^th
1973 Jul-Sep	156	1	0.6%	20^th
1973 Oct-Dec	166	4	2.4%	17^th
1974 Jan-Mar	92	12	13.0%	65^th
1974 Apr-Jun	177	12	6.8%	43^rd
1974 Jul-Sep	137	7	5.1%	24^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	7	5.3%	35^th
1975 Jan-Mar	116	1	0.9%	31^st
1975 Apr-Jun	137	12	8.8%	52^nd
1975 Jul-Sep	167	4	2.4%	14^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	5	2.8%	12^th
1976 Jan-Mar	101	2	2.0%	17^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	7	2.7%	10^th
1976 Jul-Sep	312	10	3.2%	14^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	1	7.7%	31^st
1977 Jan-Mar	91	3	3.3%	32^nd
1977 Apr-Jun	174	6	3.4%	32^nd
1977 Jul-Sep	233	14	6.0%	51^st
1977 Oct-Dec	132	8	6.1%	32^nd
1978 Jan-Mar	71	2	2.8%	19^th
1978 Apr-Jun	117	5	4.3%	44^th
1978 Jul-Sep	234	28	12.0%	58^th
1978 Oct-Oct	84	14	16.7%	77^th
1979 Feb-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	121	6	5.0%	45^th
1979 Jul-Sep	168	8	4.8%	37^th
1979 Oct-Dec	184	4	2.2%	13^th
1980 Jan-Mar	67	5	7.5%	57^th
1980 Apr-Jun	216	3	1.4%	10^th
1980 Jul-Sep	178	4	2.2%	22^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	84	7	8.3%	40^th
1981 Jan-Mar	57	2	3.5%	58^th
1981 Apr-Jun	124	6	4.8%	68^th
1981 Jul-Sep	122	1	0.8%	21^st
1981 Oct-Dec	191	7	3.7%	35^th
1982 Feb-Mar	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	127	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Jul-Sep	176	5	2.8%	44^th
1982 Oct-Dec	86	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Feb-Mar	52	3	5.8%	64^th
1983 Apr-Jun	121	2	1.7%	30^th
1983 Jul-Sep	92	3	3.3%	47^th
1983 Oct-Nov	101	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Jan-Mar	45	1	2.2%	23^rd
1984 Apr-Jun	144	2	1.4%	10^th
1984 Jul-Sep	68	4	5.9%	50^th
1984 Oct-Oct	35	0	0.0%	0^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. Jennings Randolph [D-WV, 1961-1984] leaves office as Senator from West Virginia

Oct 12, 1984

Elections and Offices

Sen. Jennings Randolph [D-WV, 1961-1984] takes office as Senator from West Virginia

Jan 03, 1961

Elections and Offices

Sen. Jennings Randolph [D-WV, 1961-1984] leaves office as Senator from West Virginia

Sep 01, 1960

Elections and Offices

Sen. Jennings Randolph [D-WV, 1961-1984] takes office as Senator from West Virginia

Jan 01, 1958

Elections and Offices

Sen. Jennings Randolph [D-WV, 1961-1984] leaves office as Representative for West Virginia's 2nd congressional district

Aug 02, 1946