Lawrence McDonald, former Representative from Georgia's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1975-1984	Representative	Georgia's 7^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare McDonald to other members of the House of Representatives in the 98^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 1975 to Aug 1983, McDonald missed 366 of 5,091 roll call votes, which is 7.2%. This is worse than the median of 6.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 1983. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1975 Jan-Mar	68	3	4.4%	42^nd
1975 Apr-Jun	199	4	2.0%	18^th
1975 Jul-Sep	145	1	0.7%	13^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	3	1.6%	22^nd
1976 Jan-Mar	106	13	12.3%	80^th
1976 Apr-Jun	248	54	21.8%	91^st
1976 Jul-Sep	278	8	2.9%	30^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	3	3.0%	35^th
1977 Apr-Jun	270	4	1.5%	17^th
1977 Jul-Sep	196	6	3.1%	35^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	18	13.4%	85^th
1978 Jan-Mar	144	29	20.1%	95^th
1978 Apr-Jun	298	13	4.4%	34^th
1978 Jul-Sep	275	38	13.8%	76^th
1978 Oct-Oct	74	3	4.1%	47^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	18	8.2%	59^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	6	3.0%	27^th
1979 Oct-Dec	188	16	8.5%	50^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	22	14.9%	77^th
1980 Apr-Jun	194	12	6.2%	44^th
1980 Jul-Sep	188	16	8.5%	60^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	9	13.4%	62^nd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	2	13.3%	73^rd
1981 Apr-Jun	84	9	10.7%	72^nd
1981 Jul-Sep	106	2	1.9%	28^th
1981 Oct-Dec	124	37	29.8%	97^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	1	2.1%	24^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	1	0.8%	11^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	2	1.0%	8^th
1982 Oct-Dec	98	2	2.0%	20^th
1983 Jan-Mar	39	2	5.1%	47^th
1983 Apr-Jun	181	3	1.7%	18^th
1983 Jul-Sep	85	6	7.1%	76^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

Rep. Lawrence McDonald [D-GA7, 1975-1984] leaves office as Representative for Georgia's 7th congressional district

Oct 12, 1984

Elections and Offices

Rep. Lawrence McDonald [D-GA7, 1975-1984] takes office as Representative for Georgia's 7th congressional district

Jan 14, 1975

Rep. Lawrence McDonald

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices