Morgan Murphy, former Representative from Illinois's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1980	Representative	Illinois's 2^nd District
1971-1972	Representative	Illinois's 3^rd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Murphy 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 1971 to Dec 1980, Murphy missed 888 of 5,719 roll call votes, which is 15.5%. This is worse 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
1971 Jan-Mar	21	7	33.3%	96^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	25	28.1%	94^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	5	6.9%	43^rd
1971 Oct-Dec	132	19	14.4%	62^nd
1972 Jan-Mar	64	10	15.6%	77^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	11	9.7%	43^rd
1972 Jul-Sep	99	4	4.0%	32^nd
1972 Oct-Oct	48	15	31.3%	85^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	62^nd
1973 Apr-Jun	186	11	5.9%	38^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	7	5.4%	53^rd
1973 Oct-Dec	179	35	19.6%	88^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	11	14.3%	76^th
1974 Apr-Jun	166	22	13.3%	69^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	7	4.7%	47^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	11	7.9%	47^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	8	11.8%	78^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	6	3.1%	32^nd
1976 Jan-Mar	101	11	10.9%	77^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	19	7.1%	43^rd
1976 Jul-Sep	274	28	10.2%	71^st
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	97	4	4.1%	47^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	28	10.3%	72^nd
1977 Jul-Sep	198	24	12.1%	79^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	8	6.0%	51^st
1978 Jan-Mar	149	21	14.1%	81^st
1978 Apr-Jun	295	36	12.2%	72^nd
1978 Jul-Sep	305	29	9.5%	62^nd
1978 Oct-Oct	75	8	10.7%	73^rd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	3	4.8%	55^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	29	13.2%	78^th
1979 Jul-Sep	188	50	26.6%	95^th
1979 Oct-Dec	183	99	54.1%	98^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	148	100.0%	99^th
1980 Apr-Jun	194	47	24.2%	90^th
1980 Jul-Sep	179	55	30.7%	93^rd
1980 Oct-Dec	65	23	35.4%	89^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