Harold Collier, former Representative for Illinois's 6th Congressional District

Collier was the representative for Illinois’s 6^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1973 to 1974.

He was previously the representative for Illinois’s 10^th congressional district as a Republican from 1957 to 1972.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Collier sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (24%) Labor and Employment (16%) Crime and Law Enforcement (12%) Taxation (12%) Transportation and Public Works (10%) Social Welfare (10%) Law (10%) Private Legislation (6%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1957 to Dec 1974, Collier missed 447 of 3,886 roll call votes, which is 11.5%. This is on par with 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 and major life events.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1957 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jul-Aug	52	3	5.8%	77^th
1958 Jan-Mar	21	1	4.8%	68^th
1958 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jul-Aug	40	3	7.5%	82^nd
1959 Jan-Apr	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	54	2	3.7%	68^th
1959 Sep-Sep	17	1	5.9%	76^th
1960 Feb-Apr	23	1	4.3%	72^nd
1960 May-Aug	70	1	1.4%	62^nd
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	65	3	4.6%	77^th
1961 Sep-Sep	29	2	6.9%	72^nd
1962 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	49	3	6.1%	88^th
1962 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	4	12.9%	97^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	1	3.6%	66^th
1963 Oct-Dec	50	6	12.0%	89^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	2	7.7%	88^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	2	5.9%	82^nd
1964 Jul-Sep	49	2	4.1%	67^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	2	7.1%	46^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	9	17.0%	72^nd
1965 Jul-Sep	98	11	11.2%	62^nd
1965 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	4	13.3%	61^st
1966 Apr-Jun	51	8	15.7%	64^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	9	12.5%	45^th
1966 Oct-Oct	40	2	5.0%	20^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	2	6.5%	80^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	1	1.8%	50^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	3	5.1%	70^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	4	4.1%	71^st
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	79	2	2.5%	50^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	1	1.1%	17^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	3	12.0%	50^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.2%	54^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	5	17.9%	72^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	7	15.6%	74^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	18	20.5%	75^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	1	2.9%	17^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	11	14.9%	48^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	13	17.1%	66^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	24	29.6%	75^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	29^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	8	8.9%	30^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	6	8.1%	47^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	26	19.4%	74^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	11	17.2%	76^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	11	9.6%	38^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	7	6.9%	40^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	4	8.0%	32^nd
1973 Jan-Mar	36	18	50.0%	96^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	12	6.3%	34^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	15	11.5%	76^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	33	18.1%	81^st
1974 Jan-Mar	79	17	21.5%	86^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	37	21.8%	83^rd
1974 Jul-Sep	148	32	21.6%	87^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	31	22.0%	76^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

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