Sen. Norris Cotton

Former Senator from New Hampshire

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1957-1975	Senator	New Hampshire
1954-1956	Senator	New Hampshire
1947-1952	Representative	New Hampshire's 2^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

Cotton was a moderate Republican follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Cotton’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Cotton to other members of the Senate in the 94^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

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Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Dec 1954 to Sep 1975, Cotton missed 690 of 5,681 roll call votes, which is 12.1%. This is worse than the median of 11.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Sep 1975. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	3	11.5%	67^th
1955 Apr-Jun	38	4	10.5%	78^th
1955 Jul-Aug	21	3	14.3%	78^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	3	6.4%	83^rd
1956 Apr-Jun	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	32	1	3.1%	65^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	43	2	4.7%	38^th
1957 Jul-Aug	46	3	6.5%	68^th
1958 Feb-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	82	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jul-Aug	72	2	2.8%	59^th
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	127	1	0.8%	12^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	77	2	2.6%	3^rd
1960 May-Aug	122	5	4.1%	44^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	134	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	33	1	3.0%	51^st
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	61	6	9.8%	68^th
1962 Jul-Sep	116	4	3.4%	39^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	2	11.1%	82^nd
1963 Jan-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	71	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	55	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	81	2	2.5%	24^th
1964 Jan-Mar	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	136	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	99	4	4.0%	36^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	32	1	3.1%	9^th
1965 Apr-Jun	105	10	9.5%	43^rd
1965 Jul-Sep	105	9	8.6%	63^rd
1965 Oct-Oct	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	2	7.1%	43^rd
1966 Apr-Jun	56	5	8.9%	19^th
1966 Jul-Sep	119	2	1.7%	8^th
1966 Oct-Oct	34	4	11.8%	33^rd
1967 Jan-Mar	53	7	13.2%	44^th
1967 Apr-Jun	69	3	4.3%	28^th
1967 Jul-Sep	77	3	3.9%	20^th
1967 Oct-Dec	110	6	5.5%	15^th
1968 Jan-Mar	68	5	7.4%	39^th
1968 Apr-Jun	96	18	18.8%	65^th
1968 Jul-Sep	89	22	24.7%	72^nd
1968 Oct-Oct	26	22	84.6%	85^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	1	2.3%	25^th
1969 Oct-Dec	153	2	1.3%	3^rd
1970 Jan-Mar	98	3	3.1%	22^nd
1970 Apr-Jun	90	4	4.4%	26^th
1970 Jul-Sep	120	40	33.3%	78^th
1970 Oct-Dec	103	14	13.6%	39^th
1971 Feb-Mar	24	2	8.3%	34^th
1971 Apr-Jun	88	4	4.5%	8^th
1971 Jul-Sep	108	26	24.1%	81^st
1971 Oct-Dec	200	51	25.5%	88^th
1972 Jan-Mar	116	13	11.2%	48^th
1972 Apr-Jun	129	13	10.1%	36^th
1972 Jul-Sep	205	37	18.0%	73^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	75	3	4.0%	25^th
1973 Jan-Mar	65	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	69	36.5%	96^th
1973 Jul-Sep	164	70	42.7%	98^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	77	45.8%	97^th
1974 Jan-Mar	92	22	23.9%	91^st
1974 Apr-Jun	178	20	11.2%	66^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	16	11.6%	64^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	32	24.1%	78^th
1975 Jul-Sep	21	4	19.0%	84^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. Norris Cotton [R-NH, 1957-1975] leaves office as Senator from New Hampshire

Dec 31, 1975

Elections and Offices

Sen. Norris Cotton [R-NH, 1957-1975] takes office as Senator from New Hampshire

Jan 03, 1957

Elections and Offices

Sen. Norris Cotton [R-NH, 1957-1975] leaves office as Senator from New Hampshire

Jul 27, 1956

Elections and Offices

Sen. Norris Cotton [R-NH, 1957-1975] takes office as Senator from New Hampshire

Jan 01, 1954

Elections and Offices

Sen. Norris Cotton [R-NH, 1957-1975] leaves office as Representative for New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district

Jul 07, 1952