Sen. John McClellan

Former Senator from Arkansas

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1961-1977	Senator	Arkansas
1943-1960	Senator	Arkansas
1937-1938	Representative	Arkansas's 6^th District
1935-1936	Representative	Arkansas's 6^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

McClellan was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from McClellan’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare McClellan to other members of the Senate in the 95^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 1943 to Feb 1978, McClellan missed 1,233 of 9,247 roll call votes, which is 13.3%. This is worse than the median of 10.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Feb 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1943 Jan-Mar	20	3	15.0%	0^th
1943 Apr-Jun	47	3	6.4%	0^th
1943 Jul-Sep	20	1	5.0%	0^th
1943 Oct-Dec	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Jan-Mar	51	2	3.9%	33^rd
1944 Apr-Jun	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Aug-Sep	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Nov-Dec	17	1	5.9%	0^th
1945 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	17^th
1945 Apr-Jun	40	2	5.0%	0^th
1945 Jul-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Oct-Dec	23	1	4.3%	0^th
1946 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Apr-Jun	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Jul-Aug	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jan-Mar	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Apr-Jun	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jul-Jul	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Nov-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Feb-Mar	27	1	3.7%	43^rd
1948 Apr-Jun	73	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Aug-Aug	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	86	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	55	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	82	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Mar	20	2	10.0%	63^rd
1951 Apr-Jun	70	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jul-Sep	87	1	1.1%	38^th
1951 Oct-Oct	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Apr-Jun	94	6	6.4%	75^th
1952 Jul-Jul	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Apr-Jun	33	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	4	17.4%	77^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	43	5	11.6%	81^st
1957 Jul-Aug	45	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Feb-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jul-Aug	76	3	3.9%	59^th
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	127	14	11.0%	77^th
1959 Sep-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	77	8	10.4%	64^th
1960 May-Aug	121	6	5.0%	52^nd
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	134	3	2.2%	58^th
1961 Sep-Sep	34	1	2.9%	46^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	57	1	1.8%	30^th
1962 Jul-Sep	121	4	3.3%	33^rd
1962 Oct-Oct	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	71	1	1.4%	26^th
1963 Jul-Sep	56	3	5.4%	41^st
1963 Oct-Dec	84	4	4.8%	38^th
1964 Jan-Mar	59	1	1.7%	29^th
1964 Apr-Jun	130	1	0.8%	59^th
1964 Jul-Sep	105	1	1.0%	9^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Apr-Jun	104	14	13.5%	75^th
1965 Jul-Sep	101	8	7.9%	69^th
1965 Oct-Oct	15	4	26.7%	63^rd
1966 Jan-Mar	28	2	7.1%	36^th
1966 Apr-Jun	55	7	12.7%	35^th
1966 Jul-Sep	119	28	23.5%	88^th
1966 Oct-Oct	35	3	8.6%	26^th
1967 Jan-Mar	52	2	3.8%	13^th
1967 Apr-Jun	63	2	3.2%	25^th
1967 Jul-Sep	77	5	6.5%	35^th
1967 Oct-Dec	109	11	10.1%	40^th
1968 Jan-Mar	68	17	25.0%	88^th
1968 Apr-Jun	96	10	10.4%	33^rd
1968 Jul-Sep	89	4	4.5%	15^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	15	55.6%	73^rd
1969 Jan-Mar	17	3	17.6%	90^th
1969 Apr-Jun	23	2	8.7%	63^rd
1969 Jul-Sep	44	3	6.8%	55^th
1969 Oct-Dec	155	28	18.1%	71^st
1970 Jan-Mar	97	13	13.4%	59^th
1970 Apr-Jun	91	12	13.2%	59^th
1970 Jul-Sep	121	13	10.7%	29^th
1970 Oct-Dec	105	23	21.9%	63^rd
1971 Feb-Mar	25	5	20.0%	65^th
1971 Apr-Jun	85	7	8.2%	24^th
1971 Jul-Sep	109	4	3.7%	16^th
1971 Oct-Dec	202	18	8.9%	36^th
1972 Jan-Mar	113	49	43.4%	90^th
1972 Apr-Jun	128	92	71.9%	91^st
1972 Jul-Sep	206	9	4.4%	22^nd
1972 Oct-Oct	75	2	2.7%	19^th
1973 Jan-Mar	67	2	3.0%	20^th
1973 Apr-Jun	187	10	5.3%	30^th
1973 Jul-Sep	166	15	9.0%	61^st
1973 Oct-Dec	168	3	1.8%	8^th
1974 Jan-Mar	93	2	2.2%	21^st
1974 Apr-Jun	177	11	6.2%	42^nd
1974 Jul-Sep	138	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	5	3.8%	18^th
1975 Jan-Mar	116	23	19.8%	93^rd
1975 Apr-Jun	140	3	2.1%	7^th
1975 Jul-Sep	163	18	11.0%	70^th
1975 Oct-Dec	178	8	4.5%	30^th
1976 Jan-Mar	100	13	13.0%	71^st
1976 Apr-Jun	255	114	44.7%	96^th
1976 Jul-Sep	311	28	9.0%	37^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	3	3.3%	18^th
1977 Apr-Jun	176	140	79.5%	99^th
1977 Jul-Sep	232	210	90.5%	99^th
1977 Oct-Dec	126	125	99.2%	99^th
1978 Jan-Mar	1	1	100.0%	97^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. John McClellan [D-AR, 1961-1977] leaves office as Senator from Arkansas

Dec 31, 1977

Elections and Offices

Sen. John McClellan [D-AR, 1961-1977] takes office as Senator from Arkansas

Jan 03, 1961

Elections and Offices

Sen. John McClellan [D-AR, 1961-1977] leaves office as Senator from Arkansas

Sep 01, 1960

Elections and Offices

Sen. John McClellan [D-AR, 1961-1977] takes office as Senator from Arkansas

Jan 06, 1943

Elections and Offices

Sen. John McClellan [D-AR, 1961-1977] leaves office as Representative for Arkansas's 6th congressional district

Jun 16, 1938