Rep. John Buchanan Jr.

Former Representative from Alabama's 6^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1965-1980	Representative	Alabama's 6^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Buchanan was a centrist Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Buchanan’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Buchanan 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 Jan 1965 to Dec 1980, Buchanan missed 492 of 7,059 roll call votes, which is 7.0%. 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
1965 Jan-Mar	28	2	7.1%	56^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	1	1.9%	20^th
1965 Jul-Sep	97	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Oct-Oct	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	2	3.9%	26^th
1966 Jul-Sep	71	1	1.4%	12^th
1966 Oct-Oct	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	58^th
1967 Apr-Jun	56	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	97	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	88	8	9.1%	90^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	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Oct-Dec	86	10	11.6%	59^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	6	17.1%	74^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	11	14.9%	44^th
1970 Jul-Sep	75	10	13.3%	62^nd
1970 Oct-Dec	79	7	8.9%	33^rd
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	4	4.4%	14^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	5	6.9%	43^rd
1971 Oct-Dec	133	2	1.5%	8^th
1972 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	19^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Jul-Sep	100	8	8.0%	51^st
1972 Oct-Oct	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	13	6.9%	43^rd
1973 Jul-Sep	130	11	8.5%	71^st
1973 Oct-Dec	177	66	37.3%	96^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	3	3.9%	26^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	36	21.3%	89^th
1974 Jul-Sep	147	4	2.7%	29^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	1	0.7%	9^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	1	0.5%	6^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	9	4.7%	50^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	5	4.7%	46^th
1976 Apr-Jun	261	49	18.8%	87^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	2	0.7%	7^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	1	1.0%	13^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	5	1.8%	16^th
1977 Jul-Sep	197	6	3.0%	34^th
1977 Oct-Dec	131	9	6.9%	59^th
1978 Jan-Mar	145	35	24.1%	97^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	25	8.3%	54^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	22	7.1%	49^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	1	1.3%	13^th
1979 Jan-Mar	61	11	18.0%	85^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	11	5.0%	36^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	10	5.1%	43^rd
1979 Oct-Dec	190	12	6.3%	33^rd
1980 Jan-Mar	148	3	2.0%	11^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	31	15.8%	81^st
1980 Jul-Sep	189	23	12.2%	68^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	8	11.9%	51^st

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. John Buchanan [R-AL6, 1965-1980] leaves office as Representative for Alabama's 6th congressional district

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Buchanan [R-AL6, 1965-1980] takes office as Representative for Alabama's 6th congressional district

Jan 04, 1965