Sen. Thomas Eagleton

Former Senator from Missouri

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1968-1986	Senator	Missouri

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Eagleton to other members of the Senate in the 99^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 1969 to Oct 1986, Eagleton missed 956 of 8,583 roll call votes, which is 11.1%. This is worse than the median of 5.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1986. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1969 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	78^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	1	4.2%	22^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	42	2	4.8%	56^th
1969 Oct-Dec	155	19	12.3%	50^th
1970 Jan-Mar	100	3	3.0%	22^nd
1970 Apr-Jun	91	6	6.6%	28^th
1970 Jul-Sep	119	25	21.0%	67^th
1970 Oct-Dec	104	24	23.1%	61^st
1971 Feb-Mar	25	4	16.0%	45^th
1971 Apr-Jun	88	28	31.8%	83^rd
1971 Jul-Sep	109	14	12.8%	61^st
1971 Oct-Dec	202	27	13.4%	52^nd
1972 Jan-Mar	118	13	11.0%	48^th
1972 Apr-Jun	129	8	6.2%	22^nd
1972 Jul-Sep	204	66	32.4%	87^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	24	32.0%	74^th
1973 Jan-Mar	66	8	12.1%	66^th
1973 Apr-Jun	192	8	4.2%	24^th
1973 Jul-Sep	166	15	9.0%	62^nd
1973 Oct-Dec	168	19	11.3%	62^nd
1974 Jan-Mar	93	17	18.3%	71^st
1974 Apr-Jun	178	12	6.7%	39^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	15	10.9%	65^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	39	29.3%	81^st
1975 Jan-Mar	117	18	15.4%	83^rd
1975 Apr-Jun	140	26	18.6%	81^st
1975 Jul-Sep	166	11	6.6%	58^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	5	2.8%	11^th
1976 Jan-Mar	102	1	1.0%	8^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	32	12.2%	61^st
1976 Jul-Sep	313	37	11.8%	42^nd
1976 Oct-Oct	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	8	8.7%	53^rd
1977 Apr-Jun	178	13	7.3%	47^th
1977 Jul-Sep	232	13	5.6%	47^th
1977 Oct-Dec	132	6	4.5%	24^th
1978 Jan-Mar	78	8	10.3%	61^st
1978 Apr-Jun	119	11	9.2%	71^st
1978 Jul-Sep	235	18	7.7%	41^st
1978 Oct-Oct	85	22	25.9%	90^th
1979 Feb-Mar	32	3	9.4%	69^th
1979 Apr-Jun	121	16	13.2%	78^th
1979 Jul-Sep	170	32	18.8%	91^st
1979 Oct-Dec	184	8	4.3%	26^th
1980 Jan-Mar	67	20	29.9%	96^th
1980 Apr-Jun	216	24	11.1%	65^th
1980 Jul-Sep	178	38	21.3%	90^th
1980 Oct-Dec	84	5	6.0%	33^rd
1981 Jan-Mar	57	1	1.8%	32^nd
1981 Apr-Jun	124	5	4.0%	57^th
1981 Jul-Sep	121	1	0.8%	28^th
1981 Oct-Dec	191	21	11.0%	78^th
1982 Feb-Mar	77	1	1.3%	31^st
1982 Apr-Jun	127	6	4.7%	57^th
1982 Jul-Sep	175	1	0.6%	23^rd
1982 Oct-Dec	86	3	3.5%	57^th
1983 Feb-Mar	54	4	7.4%	65^th
1983 Apr-Jun	120	9	7.5%	76^th
1983 Jul-Sep	92	9	9.8%	77^th
1983 Oct-Nov	101	7	6.9%	52^nd
1984 Jan-Mar	45	10	22.2%	88^th
1984 Apr-Jun	144	16	11.1%	78^th
1984 Jul-Sep	68	3	4.4%	42^nd
1984 Oct-Oct	35	6	17.1%	87^th
1985 Jan-Mar	22	4	18.2%	90^th
1985 Apr-Jun	116	8	6.9%	81^st
1985 Jul-Sep	60	2	3.3%	56^th
1985 Oct-Dec	178	17	9.6%	83^rd
1986 Jan-Mar	51	6	11.8%	86^th
1986 Apr-Jun	102	16	15.7%	94^th
1986 Jul-Sep	149	25	16.8%	96^th
1986 Oct-Oct	56	2	3.6%	66^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. Thomas Eagleton [D-MO, 1968-1986] leaves office as Senator from Missouri

Oct 18, 1986

Elections and Offices

Sen. Thomas Eagleton [D-MO, 1968-1986] takes office as Senator from Missouri

Jan 01, 1968