Sen. Henry Bellmon

Former Senator for Oklahoma

Bellmon was a senator from Oklahoma and was a Republican. He served from 1969 to 1980.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Henry Bellmon [R-OK, 1969-1980]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Bellmon is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 1980 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 Bellmon sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 15, 1975 to Dec 16, 1980. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Bellmon was the primary sponsor of 6 bills that were enacted:

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Does 6 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Bellmon sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (18%) Agriculture and Food (18%) Taxation (15%) Education (12%) Health (12%) Water Resources Development (9%) Economics and Public Finance (8%) Labor and Employment (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Bellmon recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1969 to Dec 1980, Bellmon missed 1,085 of 6,280 roll call votes, which is 17.3%. This is much worse than the median of 9.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1980. 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
1969 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	26	1	3.8%	15^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	4	9.1%	51^st
1969 Oct-Dec	158	16	10.1%	28^th
1970 Jan-Mar	100	11	11.0%	41^st
1970 Apr-Jun	92	5	5.4%	23^rd
1970 Jul-Sep	123	36	29.3%	62^nd
1970 Oct-Dec	106	50	47.2%	88^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	4	16.0%	45^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	18	20.2%	53^rd
1971 Jul-Sep	109	29	26.6%	82^nd
1971 Oct-Dec	202	50	24.8%	80^th
1972 Jan-Mar	119	28	23.5%	76^th
1972 Apr-Jun	130	29	22.3%	69^th
1972 Jul-Sep	206	46	22.3%	73^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	75	10	13.3%	47^th
1973 Jan-Mar	67	11	16.4%	63^rd
1973 Apr-Jun	192	38	19.8%	83^rd
1973 Jul-Sep	167	27	16.2%	87^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	35	20.8%	75^th
1974 Jan-Mar	94	13	13.8%	63^rd
1974 Apr-Jun	179	55	30.7%	89^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	73	52.9%	96^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	105	78.9%	96^th
1975 Jan-Mar	118	9	7.6%	62^nd
1975 Apr-Jun	141	20	14.2%	66^th
1975 Jul-Sep	170	31	18.2%	89^th
1975 Oct-Dec	182	6	3.3%	19^th
1976 Jan-Mar	109	1	0.9%	5^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	48	18.3%	75^th
1976 Jul-Sep	315	28	8.9%	30^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	13	100.0%	86^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	6	6.5%	39^th
1977 Apr-Jun	178	12	6.7%	40^th
1977 Jul-Sep	233	29	12.4%	81^st
1977 Oct-Dec	133	3	2.3%	12^th
1978 Jan-Mar	78	18	23.1%	90^th
1978 Apr-Jun	119	9	7.6%	57^th
1978 Jul-Sep	237	34	14.3%	71^st
1978 Oct-Oct	86	4	4.7%	31^st
1979 Feb-Mar	32	1	3.1%	37^th
1979 Apr-Jun	121	1	0.8%	9^th
1979 Jul-Sep	171	27	15.8%	84^th
1979 Oct-Dec	184	22	12.0%	69^th
1980 Jan-Mar	67	11	16.4%	80^th
1980 Apr-Jun	216	17	7.9%	45^th
1980 Jul-Sep	179	33	18.4%	79^th
1980 Oct-Dec	84	8	9.5%	38^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills