Rep. Walter Jones Sr.

Former Representative from North Carolina's 1^st District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1965-1992	Representative	North Carolina's 1^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

Jones was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Jones’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Jones to other members of the House of Representatives in the 102^nd 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 Feb 1966 to Sep 1992, Jones missed 1,484 of 12,053 roll call votes, which is 12.3%. This is worse than the median of 4.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1966 Jan-Mar	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	50	13	26.0%	83^rd
1966 Jul-Sep	69	14	20.3%	69^th
1966 Oct-Oct	31	23	74.2%	86^th
1967 Jan-Mar	30	2	6.7%	96^th
1967 Apr-Jun	55	1	1.8%	84^th
1967 Jul-Sep	58	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	92	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	37	2	5.4%	98^th
1968 Apr-Jun	76	3	3.9%	89^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	2	2.2%	53^rd
1968 Oct-Oct	23	2	8.7%	64^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	1	3.6%	25^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	3	6.7%	42^nd
1969 Oct-Dec	88	9	10.2%	51^st
1970 Jan-Mar	35	3	8.6%	44^th
1970 Apr-Jun	73	4	5.5%	22^nd
1970 Jul-Sep	76	4	5.3%	24^th
1970 Oct-Dec	80	13	16.3%	67^th
1971 Jan-Mar	21	1	4.8%	47^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	5	5.6%	19^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	1	1.4%	11^th
1971 Oct-Dec	132	19	14.4%	68^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Apr-Jun	112	6	5.4%	29^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	7	6.9%	51^st
1972 Oct-Oct	49	4	8.2%	42^nd
1973 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	65^th
1973 Apr-Jun	188	13	6.9%	49^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	16	12.3%	85^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	7	3.9%	31^st
1974 Jan-Mar	77	3	3.9%	27^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	19	11.2%	58^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	11	7.4%	66^th
1974 Oct-Dec	134	72	53.7%	99^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Apr-Jun	198	27	13.6%	86^th
1975 Jul-Sep	144	11	7.6%	64^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	2	1.0%	17^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	3	2.9%	39^th
1976 Apr-Jun	259	19	7.3%	53^rd
1976 Jul-Sep	279	38	13.6%	80^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	98	22	22.4%	95^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	12	4.4%	38^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	2	1.0%	12^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	0	0.0%	0^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	11	7.4%	55^th
1978 Apr-Jun	299	65	21.7%	86^th
1978 Jul-Sep	307	24	7.8%	56^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	2	2.7%	26^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	8	12.7%	78^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	10	4.5%	37^th
1979 Jul-Sep	196	12	6.1%	59^th
1979 Oct-Dec	178	87	48.9%	99^th
1980 Jan-Mar	142	54	38.0%	98^th
1980 Apr-Jun	193	16	8.3%	58^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	11	5.7%	42^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	67	6	9.0%	50^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	5	33.3%	95^th
1981 Apr-Jun	88	10	11.4%	79^th
1981 Jul-Sep	100	37	37.0%	99^th
1981 Oct-Dec	132	77	58.3%	100^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	10	20.8%	82^nd
1982 Apr-Jun	119	24	20.2%	95^th
1982 Jul-Sep	192	31	16.1%	90^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	20	20.2%	85^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	11	25.6%	95^th
1983 Apr-Jun	181	24	13.3%	84^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	24	18.5%	98^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	15	10.5%	79^th
1984 Jan-Mar	52	9	17.3%	87^th
1984 Apr-Jun	221	51	23.1%	97^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	6	6.3%	63^rd
1984 Oct-Oct	36	8	22.2%	90^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	10	27.8%	96^th
1985 Apr-Jun	153	30	19.6%	98^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	21	20.8%	97^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	6	4.1%	53^rd
1986 Jan-Mar	61	1	1.6%	19^th
1986 Apr-Jun	127	15	11.8%	92^nd
1986 Jul-Sep	199	37	18.6%	97^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	38^th
1987 Apr-Jun	180	69	38.3%	98^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	1	1.1%	22^nd
1987 Oct-Dec	166	18	10.8%	83^rd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	10	6.2%	66^th
1988 Jul-Sep	148	17	11.5%	84^th
1988 Oct-Oct	87	22	25.3%	97^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	8	7.6%	82^nd
1989 Jul-Sep	128	4	3.1%	56^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	21	17.4%	97^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	6	10.0%	85^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	3	2.0%	41^st
1990 Jul-Sep	183	3	1.6%	35^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	22	15.4%	95^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	2	3.2%	50^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	4	2.9%	45^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	16	19.8%	93^rd
1991 Oct-Nov	162	7	4.3%	68^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	3	4.5%	54^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	15	8.1%	73^rd
1992 Jul-Sep	139	21	15.1%	87^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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. Walter Jones [D-NC1, 1965-1992] leaves office as Representative for North Carolina's 1st congressional district

Sep 15, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Walter Jones [D-NC1, 1965-1992] takes office as Representative for North Carolina's 1st congressional district

Jan 04, 1965