Sen. Lee Metcalf

Former Senator from Montana

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1961-1978	Senator	Montana
1959-1960	Representative	Montana's 1^st District
1957-1958	Representative	Montana's 1^st District
1953-1956	Representative	Montana's 1^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Metcalf 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 1961 to Feb 1978, Metcalf missed 1,304 of 6,588 roll call votes, which is 19.8%. 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
1961 Jan-Apr	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	132	1	0.8%	35^th
1961 Sep-Sep	34	1	2.9%	46^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	63^rd
1962 Apr-Jun	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	111	4	3.6%	44^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	64	1	1.6%	32^nd
1963 Jul-Sep	53	7	13.2%	68^th
1963 Oct-Dec	82	6	7.3%	62^nd
1964 Jan-Mar	56	2	3.6%	62^nd
1964 Apr-Jun	135	2	1.5%	65^th
1964 Jul-Sep	103	5	4.9%	41^st
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	31	12	38.7%	94^th
1965 Apr-Jun	104	5	4.8%	13^th
1965 Jul-Sep	103	4	3.9%	41^st
1965 Oct-Oct	15	1	6.7%	28^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	1	3.6%	24^th
1966 Apr-Jun	55	10	18.2%	59^th
1966 Jul-Sep	116	45	38.8%	97^th
1966 Oct-Oct	32	30	93.8%	88^th
1967 Jan-Mar	51	4	7.8%	38^th
1967 Apr-Jun	66	19	28.8%	88^th
1967 Jul-Sep	76	40	52.6%	98^th
1967 Oct-Dec	110	12	10.9%	43^rd
1968 Jan-Mar	68	10	14.7%	68^th
1968 Apr-Jun	93	11	11.8%	40^th
1968 Jul-Sep	88	12	13.6%	48^th
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%	73^rd
1969 Jul-Sep	42	2	4.8%	49^th
1969 Oct-Dec	150	27	18.0%	69^th
1970 Jan-Mar	99	57	57.6%	96^th
1970 Apr-Jun	90	19	21.1%	78^th
1970 Jul-Sep	118	22	18.6%	59^th
1970 Oct-Dec	102	2	2.0%	10^th
1971 Feb-Mar	23	7	30.4%	81^st
1971 Apr-Jun	84	29	34.5%	91^st
1971 Jul-Sep	109	21	19.3%	67^th
1971 Oct-Dec	200	26	13.0%	52^nd
1972 Jan-Mar	119	28	23.5%	78^th
1972 Apr-Jun	128	48	37.5%	83^rd
1972 Jul-Sep	203	64	31.5%	86^th
1972 Oct-Oct	73	73	100.0%	98^th
1973 Jan-Mar	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	190	15	7.9%	49^th
1973 Jul-Sep	166	8	4.8%	39^th
1973 Oct-Dec	167	14	8.4%	46^th
1974 Jan-Mar	91	6	6.6%	40^th
1974 Apr-Jun	172	29	16.9%	78^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	13	9.4%	51^st
1974 Oct-Dec	133	5	3.8%	18^th
1975 Jan-Mar	114	6	5.3%	54^th
1975 Apr-Jun	139	46	33.1%	96^th
1975 Jul-Sep	166	23	13.9%	73^rd
1975 Oct-Dec	178	21	11.8%	62^nd
1976 Jan-Mar	103	12	11.7%	65^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	28	10.6%	45^th
1976 Jul-Sep	313	116	37.1%	95^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	90	13	14.4%	74^th
1977 Apr-Jun	177	52	29.4%	96^th
1977 Jul-Sep	233	147	63.1%	97^th
1977 Oct-Dec	125	74	59.2%	97^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. Lee Metcalf [D-MT, 1961-1978] leaves office as Senator from Montana

Oct 15, 1978

Elections and Offices

Sen. Lee Metcalf [D-MT, 1961-1978] takes office as Senator from Montana

Jan 03, 1961

Elections and Offices

Sen. Lee Metcalf [D-MT, 1961-1978] leaves office as Representative for Montana's 1st congressional district

Sep 01, 1960

Elections and Offices

Sen. Lee Metcalf [D-MT, 1961-1978] takes office as Representative for Montana's 1st congressional district

Jan 07, 1959

Elections and Offices

Sen. Lee Metcalf [D-MT, 1961-1978] leaves office as Representative for Montana's 1st congressional district

Aug 24, 1958