Rep. John Rousselot

Former Representative from California's 26^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1975-1982	Representative	California's 26^th District
1969-1974	Representative	California's 24^th District
1961-1962	Representative	California's 25^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Rousselot was a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Rousselot’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Rousselot to other members of the House of Representatives in the 97^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 Rousselot’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1961 to Dec 1982, Rousselot missed 835 of 6,853 roll call votes, which is 12.2%. This is worse than the median of 7.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Oct-Oct	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Jul-Sep	75	23	30.7%	89^th
1970 Oct-Dec	75	26	34.7%	91^st
1971 Jan-Mar	21	3	14.3%	81^st
1971 Apr-Jun	88	19	21.6%	87^th
1971 Jul-Sep	71	9	12.7%	74^th
1971 Oct-Dec	127	31	24.4%	87^th
1972 Jan-Mar	61	3	4.9%	40^th
1972 Apr-Jun	109	22	20.2%	78^th
1972 Jul-Sep	98	12	12.2%	67^th
1972 Oct-Oct	47	8	17.0%	64^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	57^th
1973 Apr-Jun	188	14	7.4%	50^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	11^th
1973 Oct-Dec	179	23	12.8%	81^st
1974 Jan-Mar	77	5	6.5%	40^th
1974 Apr-Jun	166	16	9.6%	53^rd
1974 Jul-Sep	147	13	8.8%	80^th
1974 Oct-Dec	136	19	14.0%	71^st
1975 Jan-Mar	65	5	7.7%	67^th
1975 Apr-Jun	198	15	7.6%	63^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	144	15	10.4%	76^th
1975 Oct-Dec	188	10	5.3%	59^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	3	2.8%	31^st
1976 Apr-Jun	258	38	14.7%	80^th
1976 Jul-Sep	276	20	7.2%	61^st
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	98	2	2.0%	32^nd
1977 Apr-Jun	267	20	7.5%	59^th
1977 Jul-Sep	182	17	9.3%	73^rd
1977 Oct-Dec	131	12	9.2%	67^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	10	6.7%	47^th
1978 Apr-Jun	292	32	11.0%	69^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	39	12.7%	73^rd
1978 Oct-Oct	75	1	1.3%	13^th
1979 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	57^th
1979 Apr-Jun	214	28	13.1%	83^rd
1979 Jul-Sep	197	47	23.9%	96^th
1979 Oct-Dec	188	53	28.2%	95^th
1980 Jan-Mar	145	18	12.4%	72^nd
1980 Apr-Jun	193	12	6.2%	44^th
1980 Jul-Sep	185	34	18.4%	89^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	5	7.5%	42^nd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	44^th
1981 Apr-Jun	87	7	8.0%	62^nd
1981 Jul-Sep	103	14	13.6%	86^th
1981 Oct-Dec	140	16	11.4%	74^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	8	16.7%	74^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	17	14.3%	84^th
1982 Jul-Sep	192	45	23.4%	90^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	39	39.4%	91^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 Rousselot [R-CA26, 1975-1982] leaves office as Representative for California's 26th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Rousselot [R-CA26, 1975-1982] takes office as Representative for California's 26th congressional district

Jan 14, 1975

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Rousselot [R-CA26, 1975-1982] leaves office as Representative for California's 24th congressional district

Dec 20, 1974

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Rousselot [R-CA26, 1975-1982] takes office as Representative for California's 24th congressional district

Jan 03, 1969

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Rousselot [R-CA26, 1975-1982] leaves office as Representative for California's 25th congressional district

Oct 13, 1962