Lunsford Preyer, former Representative from North Carolina's 6th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1969-1980	Representative	North Carolina's 6^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Preyer to other members of the House of Representatives in the 96^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 1969 to Dec 1980, Preyer missed 256 of 6,217 roll call votes, which is 4.1%. This is better than the median of 7.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	2	7.1%	42^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	2	4.4%	29^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	7	8.0%	40^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Apr-Jun	73	9	12.3%	36^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	1	1.3%	8^th
1970 Oct-Dec	79	12	15.2%	56^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	4	4.4%	14^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	2	2.8%	22^nd
1971 Oct-Dec	133	3	2.3%	11^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	4	6.3%	39^th
1972 Apr-Jun	112	15	13.4%	57^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	4	4.0%	26^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	1	2.0%	15^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	188	21	11.2%	71^st
1973 Jul-Sep	130	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	2	1.1%	13^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	5	6.5%	39^th
1974 Apr-Jun	167	8	4.8%	29^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	3	2.0%	20^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	9	6.4%	36^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	6	3.0%	29^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	3	2.1%	21^st
1975 Oct-Dec	191	0	0.0%	0^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	17	6.4%	38^th
1976 Jul-Sep	279	2	0.7%	10^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	14	5.1%	42^nd
1977 Jul-Sep	198	4	2.0%	22^nd
1977 Oct-Dec	134	0	0.0%	0^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	4	2.7%	23^rd
1978 Apr-Jun	300	15	5.0%	35^th
1978 Jul-Sep	307	18	5.9%	42^nd
1978 Oct-Oct	75	3	4.0%	35^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	8	3.6%	26^th
1979 Jul-Sep	193	13	6.7%	55^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	4	2.1%	12^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	3	2.0%	11^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	12	6.1%	39^th
1980 Jul-Sep	190	14	7.4%	49^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	2	3.0%	17^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. Lunsford Preyer [D-NC6, 1969-1980] leaves office as Representative for North Carolina's 6th congressional district

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Rep. Lunsford Preyer [D-NC6, 1969-1980] takes office as Representative for North Carolina's 6th congressional district

Jan 03, 1969

Rep. Lunsford Preyer

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices