Sen. Howard Cannon

Former Senator from Nevada

Elected Positions

Dates	Title / State / District
1959-1982	Senator, Nevada

Sponsorship Analysis

Cannon was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Cannon’s time serving in the Senate. Cannon’s bills had a total of 136 cosponsors in the 97^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Cannon to other members of the Senate in the 97^th 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 Cannon’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1959 to Dec 1982, Cannon missed 1,283 of 9,525 roll call votes, which is 13.5%. This is worse than the median of 6.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	127	3	2.4%	30^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	75	7	9.3%	60^th
1960 May-Aug	120	9	7.5%	64^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	135	3	2.2%	38^th
1961 Sep-Sep	32	2	6.3%	62^nd
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	59	5	8.5%	54^th
1962 Jul-Sep	118	7	5.9%	62^nd
1962 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	2	25.0%	80^th
1963 Apr-Jun	65	6	9.2%	87^th
1963 Jul-Sep	53	6	11.3%	60^th
1963 Oct-Dec	83	3	3.6%	20^th
1964 Jan-Mar	51	7	13.7%	80^th
1964 Apr-Jun	136	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	104	14	13.5%	60^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Apr-Jun	100	11	11.0%	86^th
1965 Jul-Sep	102	3	2.9%	43^rd
1965 Oct-Oct	14	3	21.4%	79^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	9	32.1%	93^rd
1966 Apr-Jun	56	3	5.4%	20^th
1966 Jul-Sep	115	6	5.2%	67^th
1966 Oct-Oct	34	9	26.5%	67^th
1967 Jan-Mar	51	7	13.7%	68^th
1967 Apr-Jun	69	1	1.4%	16^th
1967 Jul-Sep	77	8	10.4%	53^rd
1967 Oct-Dec	107	38	35.5%	89^th
1968 Jan-Mar	68	4	5.9%	42^nd
1968 Apr-Jun	96	8	8.3%	37^th
1968 Jul-Sep	89	13	14.6%	58^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	5	18.5%	47^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	3	18.8%	92^nd
1969 Apr-Jun	24	1	4.2%	23^rd
1969 Jul-Sep	44	7	15.9%	88^th
1969 Oct-Dec	147	33	22.4%	85^th
1970 Jan-Mar	99	1	1.0%	8^th
1970 Apr-Jun	91	20	22.0%	77^th
1970 Jul-Sep	113	76	67.3%	96^th
1970 Oct-Dec	105	48	45.7%	88^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	1	4.0%	23^rd
1971 Apr-Jun	89	22	24.7%	71^st
1971 Jul-Sep	109	5	4.6%	23^rd
1971 Oct-Dec	200	24	12.0%	42^nd
1972 Jan-Mar	116	21	18.1%	68^th
1972 Apr-Jun	125	24	19.2%	74^th
1972 Jul-Sep	204	55	27.0%	81^st
1972 Oct-Oct	72	12	16.7%	55^th
1973 Jan-Mar	67	6	9.0%	50^th
1973 Apr-Jun	186	32	17.2%	84^th
1973 Jul-Sep	166	14	8.4%	58^th
1973 Oct-Dec	165	15	9.1%	53^rd
1974 Jan-Mar	92	18	19.6%	78^th
1974 Apr-Jun	178	6	3.4%	25^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	7	5.1%	28^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	13	9.8%	50^th
1975 Jan-Mar	115	4	3.5%	44^th
1975 Apr-Jun	140	17	12.1%	69^th
1975 Jul-Sep	167	28	16.8%	93^rd
1975 Oct-Dec	179	13	7.3%	42^nd
1976 Jan-Mar	103	0	0.0%	0^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	9	3.4%	13^th
1976 Jul-Sep	312	90	28.8%	91^st
1976 Oct-Oct	13	1	7.7%	29^th
1977 Jan-Mar	90	19	21.1%	84^th
1977 Apr-Jun	178	18	10.1%	60^th
1977 Jul-Sep	230	5	2.2%	26^th
1977 Oct-Dec	131	21	16.0%	82^nd
1978 Jan-Mar	75	1	1.3%	8^th
1978 Apr-Jun	114	14	12.3%	77^th
1978 Jul-Sep	235	6	2.6%	15^th
1978 Oct-Oct	82	7	8.5%	56^th
1979 Feb-Mar	32	1	3.1%	43^rd
1979 Apr-Jun	121	15	12.4%	77^th
1979 Jul-Sep	168	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Oct-Dec	182	31	17.0%	84^th
1980 Jan-Mar	67	11	16.4%	85^th
1980 Apr-Jun	216	39	18.1%	87^th
1980 Jul-Sep	178	11	6.2%	51^st
1980 Oct-Dec	84	42	50.0%	98^th
1981 Jan-Mar	57	10	17.5%	94^th
1981 Apr-Jun	124	51	41.1%	99^th
1981 Jul-Sep	118	14	11.9%	85^th
1981 Oct-Dec	191	56	29.3%	97^th
1982 Feb-Mar	77	12	15.6%	86^th
1982 Apr-Jun	126	27	21.4%	95^th
1982 Jul-Sep	172	31	18.0%	97^th
1982 Oct-Dec	86	13	15.1%	88^th

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Howard Cannon [D-NV, 1959-1982] leaves office as Senator from Nevada

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Sen. Howard Cannon [D-NV, 1959-1982] takes office as Senator from Nevada

Jan 07, 1959