Rep. Butler Derrick Jr.

Former Representative from South Carolina's 3^rd District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title / State / District
1975-1994	Representative, South Carolina's 3^rd District

Sponsorship Analysis

Derrick was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Derrick’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Derrick’s bills had a total of 17 cosponsors in the 103^rd Congress.

Use this chart to compare Derrick to other members of the House of Representatives in the 103^rd Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Some of Derrick’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1975 to Nov 1994, Derrick missed 784 of 10,542 roll call votes, which is 7.4%. This is worse than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1994. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1975 Jan-Mar	68	1	1.5%	26^th
1975 Apr-Jun	197	10	5.1%	53^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	145	15	10.3%	75^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	8	4.2%	48^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	5	4.7%	47^th
1976 Apr-Jun	265	25	9.4%	58^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	14	5.0%	44^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	99	7	7.1%	66^th
1977 Apr-Jun	270	51	18.9%	92^nd
1977 Jul-Sep	198	28	14.1%	86^th
1977 Oct-Dec	132	10	7.6%	67^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	11	7.4%	57^th
1978 Apr-Jun	296	16	5.4%	42^nd
1978 Jul-Sep	307	27	8.8%	60^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	7	9.3%	72^nd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	5	7.9%	74^th
1979 Apr-Jun	219	55	25.1%	97^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	9	4.5%	45^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	9	4.7%	22^nd
1980 Jan-Mar	148	19	12.8%	74^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	37	18.9%	86^th
1980 Jul-Sep	190	18	9.5%	65^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	6	9.0%	50^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	3	20.0%	85^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	8	9.0%	72^nd
1981 Jul-Sep	106	11	10.4%	81^st
1981 Oct-Dec	142	17	12.0%	78^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	19	39.6%	95^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	15	12.6%	86^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	20	10.4%	77^th
1982 Oct-Dec	98	10	10.2%	68^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	2	4.7%	34^th
1983 Apr-Jun	177	21	11.9%	78^th
1983 Jul-Sep	127	15	11.8%	92^nd
1983 Oct-Nov	143	18	12.6%	86^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	4	7.5%	61^st
1984 Apr-Jun	223	11	4.9%	45^th
1984 Jul-Sep	94	6	6.4%	68^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	3	8.3%	61^st
1985 Jan-Mar	36	9	25.0%	95^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	17	11.0%	87^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	6	5.9%	65^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	2	1.4%	27^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	8	13.1%	78^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	5	3.9%	55^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	8	4.0%	57^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	6	10.0%	79^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	2	5.1%	61^st
1987 Apr-Jun	187	10	5.3%	65^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	1	0.6%	5^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Apr-Jun	156	4	2.6%	46^th
1988 Jul-Sep	151	10	6.6%	72^nd
1988 Oct-Oct	89	3	3.4%	57^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	4	3.8%	56^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	2	1.6%	35^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	4	3.3%	45^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	4	6.7%	78^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	5	2.7%	50^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	9	6.3%	72^nd
1991 Jan-Mar	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	7	5.0%	68^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	3	3.7%	49^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	4	2.5%	52^nd
1992 Jan-Mar	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	4	2.2%	39^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	1	0.5%	12^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	1	0.8%	23^rd
1993 Apr-Jun	190	12	6.3%	74^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	17	10.4%	94^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	3	2.2%	54^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	8	8.4%	79^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	12	5.5%	74^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	16	11.3%	86^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	1	2.0%	42^nd

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. Butler Derrick [D-SC3, 1975-1994] leaves office as Representative for South Carolina's 3rd congressional district

Dec 01, 1994

Elections and Offices

Rep. Butler Derrick [D-SC3, 1975-1994] takes office as Representative for South Carolina's 3rd congressional district

Jan 14, 1975