Sen. Robert Griffin

Former Senator from Michigan

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1966-1978	Senator	Michigan
1961-1964	Representative	Michigan's 9^th District
1959-1960	Representative	Michigan's 9^th District
1957-1958	Representative	Michigan's 9^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Griffin 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 May 1966 to Oct 1978, Griffin missed 1,051 of 5,915 roll call votes, which is 17.8%. This is worse than the median of 10.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1966 Apr-Jun	45	9	20.0%	65^th
1966 Jul-Sep	113	33	29.2%	94^th
1966 Oct-Oct	32	18	56.3%	79^th
1967 Jan-Mar	52	8	15.4%	60^th
1967 Apr-Jun	70	9	12.9%	63^rd
1967 Jul-Sep	76	8	10.5%	55^th
1967 Oct-Dec	110	13	11.8%	45^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	4	5.8%	30^th
1968 Apr-Jun	95	15	15.8%	58^th
1968 Jul-Sep	89	31	34.8%	75^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	4	14.8%	40^th
1969 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	2	8.3%	43^rd
1969 Jul-Sep	44	4	9.1%	67^th
1969 Oct-Dec	146	9	6.2%	24^th
1970 Jan-Mar	98	17	17.3%	67^th
1970 Apr-Jun	89	1	1.1%	10^th
1970 Jul-Sep	115	16	13.9%	37^th
1970 Oct-Dec	105	7	6.7%	25^th
1971 Feb-Mar	24	2	8.3%	32^nd
1971 Apr-Jun	87	12	13.8%	47^th
1971 Jul-Sep	105	17	16.2%	57^th
1971 Oct-Dec	198	15	7.6%	31^st
1972 Jan-Mar	118	16	13.6%	50^th
1972 Apr-Jun	127	26	20.5%	64^th
1972 Jul-Sep	203	78	38.4%	91^st
1972 Oct-Oct	74	29	39.2%	78^th
1973 Jan-Mar	67	4	6.0%	42^nd
1973 Apr-Jun	191	32	16.8%	83^rd
1973 Jul-Sep	166	41	24.7%	92^nd
1973 Oct-Dec	167	7	4.2%	25^th
1974 Jan-Mar	93	6	6.5%	36^th
1974 Apr-Jun	178	12	6.7%	48^th
1974 Jul-Sep	136	9	6.6%	38^th
1974 Oct-Dec	132	10	7.6%	40^th
1975 Jan-Mar	115	5	4.3%	45^th
1975 Apr-Jun	136	21	15.4%	73^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	167	34	20.4%	89^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	7	3.9%	23^rd
1976 Jan-Mar	102	7	6.9%	50^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	50	19.0%	83^rd
1976 Jul-Sep	311	60	19.3%	77^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	1	7.7%	29^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	40	43.5%	98^th
1977 Apr-Jun	177	48	27.1%	94^th
1977 Jul-Sep	233	73	31.3%	95^th
1977 Oct-Dec	131	54	41.2%	91^st
1978 Jan-Mar	78	9	11.5%	64^th
1978 Apr-Jun	118	18	15.3%	80^th
1978 Jul-Sep	234	81	34.6%	91^st
1978 Oct-Oct	83	19	22.9%	78^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. Robert Griffin [R-MI, 1966-1978] leaves office as Senator from Michigan

Oct 15, 1978

Elections and Offices

Sen. Robert Griffin [R-MI, 1966-1978] takes office as Senator from Michigan

Jan 01, 1966

Elections and Offices

Sen. Robert Griffin [R-MI, 1966-1978] leaves office as Representative for Michigan's 9th congressional district

Oct 03, 1964

Elections and Offices

Sen. Robert Griffin [R-MI, 1966-1978] takes office as Representative for Michigan's 9th congressional district

Jan 03, 1961

Elections and Offices

Sen. Robert Griffin [R-MI, 1966-1978] leaves office as Representative for Michigan's 9th congressional district

Sep 01, 1960