Rep. John Young

Former Representative from Texas's 14^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1961-1978	Representative	Texas's 14^th District
1959-1960	Representative	Texas's 14^th District
1957-1958	Representative	Texas's 14^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Young was a moderate Democratic follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Young’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Young to other members of the House of Representatives 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 1957 to Oct 1978, Young missed 803 of 6,647 roll call votes, which is 12.1%. This is worse than the median of 8.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1957 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jul-Aug	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jul-Aug	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Jan-Apr	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Sep-Sep	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Feb-Apr	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 May-Aug	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Apr-Jun	52	9	17.3%	82^nd
1965 Jul-Sep	98	12	12.2%	75^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	6	27.3%	89^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	4	7.8%	38^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	1	1.4%	10^th
1966 Oct-Oct	39	2	5.1%	24^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	1	1.8%	73^rd
1967 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	96	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	3	3.3%	65^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	2	8.0%	51^st
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	27	9	33.3%	96^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	9	20.0%	86^th
1969 Oct-Dec	87	14	16.1%	71^st
1970 Jan-Mar	35	4	11.4%	60^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	8	10.8%	30^th
1970 Jul-Sep	74	14	18.9%	76^th
1970 Oct-Dec	80	17	21.3%	71^st
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	58^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	9	10.1%	44^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	3	4.2%	30^th
1971 Oct-Dec	133	10	7.5%	37^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	9	14.1%	71^st
1972 Apr-Jun	113	19	16.8%	67^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	3	3.0%	19^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	6	3.2%	19^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	9	6.9%	63^rd
1973 Oct-Dec	180	8	4.4%	36^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	7	4.1%	24^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	3	2.0%	19^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	1	0.7%	9^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	14	7.0%	59^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	1	0.7%	8^th
1975 Oct-Dec	190	2	1.1%	16^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	6	5.7%	55^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	42	15.7%	81^st
1976 Jul-Sep	280	28	10.0%	69^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	11	11.0%	77^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	13	4.8%	36^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	32	16.2%	86^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	17	12.7%	78^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	61	40.9%	98^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	164	54.7%	97^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	164	53.2%	97^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	44	58.7%	96^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 Young [D-TX14, 1961-1978] leaves office as Representative for Texas's 14th congressional district

Oct 15, 1978

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Young [D-TX14, 1961-1978] takes office as Representative for Texas's 14th congressional district

Jan 03, 1961

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Young [D-TX14, 1961-1978] leaves office as Representative for Texas's 14th congressional district

Sep 01, 1960

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Young [D-TX14, 1961-1978] takes office as Representative for Texas's 14th congressional district

Jan 07, 1959

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Young [D-TX14, 1961-1978] leaves office as Representative for Texas's 14th congressional district

Aug 24, 1958