William Hendon, former Representative from North Carolina's 11th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1985-1986	Representative	North Carolina's 11^th District
1981-1982	Representative	North Carolina's 11^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Hendon to other members of the House of Representatives 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 1981 to Oct 1986, Hendon missed 74 of 1,697 roll call votes, which is 4.4%. This is better than the median of 5.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1986. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	4	3.8%	42^nd
1981 Oct-Dec	141	6	4.3%	40^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	14	29.2%	92^nd
1982 Apr-Jun	119	4	3.4%	40^th
1982 Jul-Sep	192	9	4.7%	44^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	10	10.1%	57^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	35^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	3	1.9%	21^st
1985 Jul-Sep	100	3	3.0%	45^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	6	4.1%	49^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	2	3.3%	26^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	6	4.7%	57^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	3	1.5%	25^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	2	3.3%	42^nd

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