Tennyson Guyer, former Representative from Ohio's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1982	Representative	Ohio's 4^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Guyer to other members of the House of Representatives in the 97^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 1973 to Apr 1981, Guyer missed 396 of 5,096 roll call votes, which is 7.8%. This is worse than the median of 7.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Apr 1981. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	35	3	8.6%	65^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	15	7.9%	53^rd
1973 Jul-Sep	129	10	7.8%	69^th
1973 Oct-Dec	178	9	5.1%	43^rd
1974 Jan-Mar	77	2	2.6%	21^st
1974 Apr-Jun	167	17	10.2%	53^rd
1974 Jul-Sep	147	3	2.0%	28^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	8	5.7%	34^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	2	2.9%	31^st
1975 Apr-Jun	199	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Jul-Sep	143	5	3.5%	40^th
1975 Oct-Dec	188	14	7.4%	71^st
1976 Jan-Mar	99	54	54.5%	99^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	19	7.2%	46^th
1976 Jul-Sep	278	36	12.9%	79^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	97	11	11.3%	84^th
1977 Apr-Jun	271	8	3.0%	28^th
1977 Jul-Sep	193	15	7.8%	66^th
1977 Oct-Dec	132	14	10.6%	74^th
1978 Jan-Mar	139	16	11.5%	77^th
1978 Apr-Jun	297	11	3.7%	28^th
1978 Jul-Sep	305	41	13.4%	75^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	2	2.7%	22^nd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	11	17.5%	84^th
1979 Apr-Jun	216	14	6.5%	53^rd
1979 Jul-Sep	197	6	3.0%	31^st
1979 Oct-Dec	189	21	11.1%	61^st
1980 Jan-Mar	148	10	6.8%	42^nd
1980 Apr-Jun	194	9	4.6%	33^rd
1980 Jul-Sep	189	4	2.1%	22^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	67	3	4.5%	27^th
1981 Jan-Mar	14	3	21.4%	91^st
1981 Apr-Jun	3	0	0.0%	0^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. Tennyson Guyer [R-OH4, 1973-1982] leaves office as Representative for Ohio's 4th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. Tennyson Guyer [R-OH4, 1973-1982] takes office as Representative for Ohio's 4th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Rep. Tennyson Guyer

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices