Sen. Rupert Hartke

Former Senator from Indiana

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1959-1976	Senator	Indiana

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Hartke to other members of the Senate in the 94^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 1959 to Oct 1976, Hartke missed 1,601 of 6,410 roll call votes, which is 25.0%. This is worse than the median of 11.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1976. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	56	2	3.6%	69^th
1959 May-Aug	126	5	4.0%	36^th
1959 Sep-Sep	23	8	34.8%	88^th
1960 Jan-Apr	77	2	2.6%	3^rd
1960 May-Aug	120	18	15.0%	85^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	132	12	9.1%	92^nd
1961 Sep-Sep	31	6	19.4%	89^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	1	4.8%	66^th
1962 Apr-Jun	61	5	8.2%	58^th
1962 Jul-Sep	119	12	10.1%	84^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	2	11.1%	82^nd
1963 Jan-Mar	8	2	25.0%	78^th
1963 Apr-Jun	69	14	20.3%	98^th
1963 Jul-Sep	57	14	24.6%	93^rd
1963 Oct-Dec	80	12	15.0%	80^th
1964 Jan-Mar	59	5	8.5%	80^th
1964 Apr-Jun	135	13	9.6%	93^rd
1964 Jul-Sep	103	16	15.5%	84^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	32	4	12.5%	57^th
1965 Apr-Jun	105	19	18.1%	78^th
1965 Jul-Sep	101	7	6.9%	54^th
1965 Oct-Oct	15	11	73.3%	93^rd
1966 Jan-Mar	28	1	3.6%	23^rd
1966 Apr-Jun	55	12	21.8%	75^th
1966 Jul-Sep	117	28	23.9%	90^th
1966 Oct-Oct	35	5	14.3%	35^th
1967 Jan-Mar	52	16	30.8%	83^rd
1967 Apr-Jun	69	27	39.1%	94^th
1967 Jul-Sep	78	16	20.5%	85^th
1967 Oct-Dec	110	18	16.4%	56^th
1968 Jan-Mar	68	15	22.1%	85^th
1968 Apr-Jun	91	27	29.7%	83^rd
1968 Jul-Sep	88	12	13.6%	50^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	19	70.4%	81^st
1969 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	54^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	4	16.7%	68^th
1969 Jul-Sep	42	6	14.3%	88^th
1969 Oct-Dec	152	23	15.1%	71^st
1970 Jan-Mar	100	23	23.0%	78^th
1970 Apr-Jun	89	21	23.6%	91^st
1970 Jul-Sep	117	69	59.0%	94^th
1970 Oct-Dec	105	41	39.0%	77^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	8	32.0%	84^th
1971 Apr-Jun	87	37	42.5%	94^th
1971 Jul-Sep	103	32	31.1%	95^th
1971 Oct-Dec	199	90	45.2%	95^th
1972 Jan-Mar	119	92	77.3%	97^th
1972 Apr-Jun	128	39	30.5%	82^nd
1972 Jul-Sep	205	21	10.2%	55^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	7	9.3%	43^rd
1973 Jan-Mar	67	12	17.9%	70^th
1973 Apr-Jun	192	21	10.9%	67^th
1973 Jul-Sep	166	24	14.5%	79^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	28	16.7%	68^th
1974 Jan-Mar	92	36	39.1%	98^th
1974 Apr-Jun	178	32	18.0%	80^th
1974 Jul-Sep	136	35	25.7%	87^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	34	25.6%	80^th
1975 Jan-Mar	116	15	12.9%	80^th
1975 Apr-Jun	140	13	9.3%	48^th
1975 Jul-Sep	167	44	26.3%	93^rd
1975 Oct-Dec	178	23	12.9%	69^th
1976 Jan-Mar	103	39	37.9%	93^rd
1976 Apr-Jun	262	122	46.6%	94^th
1976 Jul-Sep	309	221	71.5%	97^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	2	15.4%	39^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. Rupert Hartke [D-IN, 1959-1976] leaves office as Senator from Indiana

Oct 01, 1976

Elections and Offices

Sen. Rupert Hartke [D-IN, 1959-1976] takes office as Senator from Indiana

Jan 07, 1959