Rep. James Mattox

Former Representative for Texas’s 5^th District

Mattox was the representative for Texas’s 5^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1977 to 1982.

Bioguide

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Mattox is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1982 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 Mattox sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 1977 to Dec 21, 1982. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Mattox sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Private Legislation (31%) Taxation (23%) Social Welfare (15%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) International Affairs (8%) Arts, Culture, Religion (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Mattox recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1977 to Dec 1982, Mattox missed 477 of 3,628 roll call votes, which is 13.1%. This is much worse than the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. 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
1977 Jan-Mar	100	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	2	0.7%	8^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	2	1.0%	13^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	18	13.3%	78^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	2	1.3%	11^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	6	2.0%	12^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	11	3.6%	25^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	10	13.2%	77^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	10	4.5%	30^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	5	2.5%	19^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	31	16.3%	78^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	12	8.1%	47^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	11	5.6%	33^rd
1980 Jul-Sep	192	65	33.9%	98^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	17	25.4%	83^rd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	14	15.6%	80^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	19	17.9%	90^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	53	37.3%	96^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	23	47.9%	95^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	46	38.7%	97^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	83	43.0%	95^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	37	37.4%	90^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