Rep. John Duncan

Former Representative from Tennessee's 2^nd District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1965-1988	Representative	Tennessee's 2^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Duncan to other members of the House of Representatives in the 100^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 Jun 1988, Duncan missed 351 of 10,361 roll call votes, which is 3.4%. This is better than the median of 5.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1988. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1965 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Oct-Oct	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	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	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	1	1.4%	6^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Oct-Dec	133	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Jul-Sep	100	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	188	2	1.1%	7^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	12^th
1973 Oct-Dec	179	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	1	0.7%	8^th
1974 Oct-Dec	139	17	12.2%	66^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	3	4.4%	44^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	3	1.5%	12^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	1	0.7%	7^th
1975 Oct-Dec	189	5	2.6%	35^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	2	1.9%	26^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	3	1.1%	7^th
1976 Jul-Sep	277	3	1.1%	15^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	1	0.4%	5^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	1	0.5%	10^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	2	1.5%	21^st
1978 Jan-Mar	148	4	2.7%	29^th
1978 Apr-Jun	299	13	4.3%	33^rd
1978 Jul-Sep	308	4	1.3%	10^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	3	4.0%	37^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	2	0.9%	8^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	4	2.0%	17^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	6	3.2%	19^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	0	0.0%	0^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	1	0.5%	4^th
1980 Jul-Sep	191	2	1.0%	13^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	1	1.5%	8^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	2	2.2%	18^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	3	2.8%	36^th
1981 Oct-Dec	137	25	18.2%	89^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	1	2.1%	24^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	2	1.7%	22^nd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	3	1.6%	12^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	9	9.1%	54^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Apr-Jun	181	10	5.5%	45^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	2	1.5%	23^rd
1983 Oct-Nov	142	6	4.2%	43^rd
1984 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Apr-Jun	222	5	2.3%	24^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	1	1.1%	17^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	51^st
1985 Apr-Jun	154	3	1.9%	21^st
1985 Jul-Sep	101	1	1.0%	19^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	3	2.0%	31^st
1986 Jan-Mar	61	3	4.9%	39^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	1	0.8%	14^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	3	1.5%	27^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	1	1.7%	32^nd
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	26	13.9%	91^st
1987 Jul-Sep	95	4	4.2%	58^th
1987 Oct-Dec	166	23	13.9%	88^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	1	2.0%	26^th
1988 Apr-Jun	138	124	89.9%	99^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. John Duncan [R-TN2, 1965-1988] leaves office as Representative for Tennessee's 2nd congressional district

Jun 21, 1988

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Duncan [R-TN2, 1965-1988] takes office as Representative for Tennessee's 2nd congressional district

Jan 04, 1965