Rep. Dan Kuykendall

Former Representative for Tennessee’s 8^th District

Kuykendall was the representative for Tennessee’s 8^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1973 to 1974.

He was previously the representative for Tennessee’s 9^th congressional district as a Republican from 1967 to 1972.

Bioguide

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Kuykendall is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1974 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Kuykendall sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Dec 20, 1974. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Kuykendall sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Transportation and Public Works (38%) Law (12%) Labor and Employment (12%) International Affairs (8%) Education (8%) Agriculture and Food (8%) Social Welfare (8%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Kuykendall recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1967 to Dec 1974, Kuykendall missed 547 of 2,648 roll call votes, which is 20.7%. This is much worse than the median of 9.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1974. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	48^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	2	3.5%	70^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	1	1.7%	40^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	7	7.1%	89^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	3	7.9%	90^th
1968 Apr-Jun	79	1	1.3%	23^rd
1968 Jul-Sep	91	8	8.8%	75^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	5	20.0%	71^st
1969 Jan-Mar	16	3	18.8%	86^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	11	39.3%	96^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	8	17.8%	78^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	25	28.4%	87^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	8	22.9%	78^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	20	27.0%	79^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	20	26.3%	81^st
1970 Oct-Dec	81	26	32.1%	79^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	50^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	13	14.4%	53^rd
1971 Jul-Sep	74	16	21.6%	84^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	37	27.6%	87^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	18	28.1%	92^nd
1972 Apr-Jun	114	26	22.8%	76^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	33	32.7%	91^st
1972 Oct-Oct	50	39	78.0%	97^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	36^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	20	10.5%	57^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	18	13.7%	80^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	22	12.1%	66^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	16	20.3%	85^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	32	18.8%	77^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	35	23.6%	89^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	69	48.9%	95^th

Primary Sources

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

unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
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
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills