Sen. John Pastore

Former Senator from Rhode Island

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1959-1976	Senator	Rhode Island
1953-1958	Senator	Rhode Island
1950-1952	Senator	Rhode Island

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Pastore to other members of the Senate in the 94^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 1949 to Oct 1976, Pastore missed 669 of 7,868 roll call votes, which is 8.5%. This is better than the median of 11.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1976. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1949 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	86	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	82	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	55	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	85	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	78	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	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Apr-Jun	70	2	2.9%	56^th
1951 Jul-Sep	92	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Oct-Oct	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Apr-Jun	94	2	2.1%	44^th
1952 Jul-Jul	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	88	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	1	3.8%	50^th
1955 Apr-Jun	37	1	2.7%	28^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	1	4.3%	44^th
1956 Jan-Mar	45	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	48	5	10.4%	88^th
1956 Jul-Jul	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	3	6.7%	43^rd
1957 Jul-Aug	46	4	8.7%	82^nd
1958 Feb-Mar	37	2	5.4%	59^th
1958 Apr-Jun	81	4	4.9%	73^rd
1958 Jul-Aug	76	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Jan-Apr	56	3	5.4%	78^th
1959 May-Aug	125	8	6.4%	55^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	76	6	7.9%	42^nd
1960 May-Aug	118	8	6.8%	59^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	137	3	2.2%	41^st
1961 Sep-Sep	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	53^rd
1962 Apr-Jun	58	7	12.1%	76^th
1962 Jul-Sep	117	16	13.7%	87^th
1962 Oct-Oct	17	2	11.8%	87^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	2	25.0%	78^th
1963 Apr-Jun	70	2	2.9%	33^rd
1963 Jul-Sep	56	2	3.6%	24^th
1963 Oct-Dec	77	5	6.5%	58^th
1964 Jan-Mar	56	5	8.9%	84^th
1964 Apr-Jun	135	3	2.2%	71^st
1964 Jul-Sep	103	10	9.7%	67^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	1	100.0%	87^th
1965 Jan-Mar	32	3	9.4%	46^th
1965 Apr-Jun	105	10	9.5%	43^rd
1965 Jul-Sep	102	11	10.8%	85^th
1965 Oct-Oct	13	2	15.4%	52^nd
1966 Jan-Mar	26	1	3.8%	36^th
1966 Apr-Jun	54	13	24.1%	81^st
1966 Jul-Sep	119	8	6.7%	48^th
1966 Oct-Oct	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jan-Mar	52	5	9.6%	37^th
1967 Apr-Jun	70	4	5.7%	30^th
1967 Jul-Sep	76	9	11.8%	52^nd
1967 Oct-Dec	103	19	18.4%	69^th
1968 Jan-Mar	33	33	100.0%	98^th
1968 Apr-Jun	90	13	14.4%	46^th
1968 Jul-Sep	88	5	5.7%	22^nd
1968 Oct-Oct	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	4	16.7%	68^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Oct-Dec	147	15	10.2%	48^th
1970 Jan-Mar	93	8	8.6%	49^th
1970 Apr-Jun	88	4	4.5%	29^th
1970 Jul-Sep	119	23	19.3%	55^th
1970 Oct-Dec	101	24	23.8%	62^nd
1971 Feb-Mar	25	1	4.0%	17^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	12	13.5%	40^th
1971 Jul-Sep	108	31	28.7%	92^nd
1971 Oct-Dec	200	1	0.5%	1^st
1972 Jan-Mar	118	4	3.4%	16^th
1972 Apr-Jun	129	37	28.7%	77^th
1972 Jul-Sep	204	5	2.5%	16^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	1	1.3%	13^th
1973 Jan-Mar	65	18	27.7%	84^th
1973 Apr-Jun	187	2	1.1%	6^th
1973 Jul-Sep	160	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Oct-Dec	167	14	8.4%	43^rd
1974 Jan-Mar	92	10	10.9%	57^th
1974 Apr-Jun	173	4	2.3%	16^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	5	3.6%	18^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	13	9.8%	43^rd
1975 Jan-Mar	117	10	8.5%	67^th
1975 Apr-Jun	139	9	6.5%	34^th
1975 Jul-Sep	165	17	10.3%	62^nd
1975 Oct-Dec	179	16	8.9%	47^th
1976 Jan-Mar	99	23	23.2%	84^th
1976 Apr-Jun	258	50	19.4%	77^th
1976 Jul-Sep	310	53	17.1%	60^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	10	76.9%	69^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 Pastore [D-RI, 1959-1976] leaves office as Senator from Rhode Island

Oct 01, 1976

Elections and Offices

Sen. John Pastore [D-RI, 1959-1976] takes office as Senator from Rhode Island

Jan 07, 1959

Elections and Offices

Sen. John Pastore [D-RI, 1959-1976] leaves office as Senator from Rhode Island

Aug 24, 1958

Elections and Offices

Sen. John Pastore [D-RI, 1959-1976] takes office as Senator from Rhode Island

Jan 03, 1953

Elections and Offices

Sen. John Pastore [D-RI, 1959-1976] leaves office as Senator from Rhode Island

Jul 07, 1952