Thomas Corcoran, former Representative from Illinois's 14th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1984	Representative	Illinois's 14^th District
1977-1982	Representative	Illinois's 15^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Corcoran was a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Corcoran’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Corcoran to other members of the House of Representatives in the 98^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 1977 to Oct 1984, Corcoran missed 308 of 4,468 roll call votes, which is 6.9%. This is worse than the median of 6.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1984. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1977 Jan-Mar	100	1	1.0%	14^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	1	0.4%	6^th
1977 Jul-Sep	197	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	21	15.7%	91^st
1978 Jan-Mar	149	3	2.0%	18^th
1978 Apr-Jun	298	17	5.7%	43^rd
1978 Jul-Sep	305	15	4.9%	37^th
1978 Oct-Oct	72	2	2.8%	37^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	219	5	2.3%	20^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	7	3.5%	34^th
1979 Oct-Dec	188	8	4.3%	26^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	9	6.1%	36^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	7	3.6%	24^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	1	0.5%	5^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	11	16.4%	71^st
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	88	1	1.1%	16^th
1981 Jul-Sep	104	2	1.9%	36^th
1981 Oct-Dec	136	16	11.8%	77^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	3	6.3%	52^nd
1982 Apr-Jun	118	3	2.5%	39^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	4	2.1%	17^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	6	6.1%	37^th
1983 Jan-Mar	40	12	30.0%	97^th
1983 Apr-Jun	174	14	8.0%	60^th
1983 Jul-Sep	125	17	13.6%	93^rd
1983 Oct-Nov	135	49	36.3%	98^th
1984 Jan-Mar	43	41	95.3%	99^th
1984 Apr-Jun	221	7	3.2%	32^nd
1984 Jul-Sep	94	22	23.4%	94^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	3	8.3%	56^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