Sen. James Pearson

Former Senator from Kansas

Elected Positions

Dates	Title / State / District
1962-1978	Senator, Kansas

Sponsorship Analysis

Pearson was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Pearson’s time serving in the Senate. Pearson’s bills had a total of 67 cosponsors in the 95^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Pearson to other members of the Senate in the 95^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 Pearson’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Feb 1962 to Oct 1978, Pearson missed 860 of 6,907 roll call votes, which is 12.5%. This is worse than the median of 10.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1962 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	60	5	8.3%	63^rd
1962 Jul-Sep	105	16	15.2%	89^th
1962 Oct-Oct	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	2	25.0%	82^nd
1963 Apr-Jun	69	3	4.3%	62^nd
1963 Jul-Sep	53	3	5.7%	44^th
1963 Oct-Dec	75	16	21.3%	85^th
1964 Jan-Mar	53	2	3.8%	71^st
1964 Apr-Jun	134	5	3.7%	82^nd
1964 Jul-Sep	94	22	23.4%	91^st
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	26	9	34.6%	88^th
1965 Apr-Jun	89	20	22.5%	94^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	25	25.5%	91^st
1965 Oct-Oct	13	4	30.8%	66^th
1966 Jan-Mar	25	1	4.0%	33^rd
1966 Apr-Jun	56	5	8.9%	18^th
1966 Jul-Sep	110	23	20.9%	79^th
1966 Oct-Oct	31	16	51.6%	74^th
1967 Jan-Mar	53	3	5.7%	18^th
1967 Apr-Jun	70	1	1.4%	8^th
1967 Jul-Sep	77	4	5.2%	28^th
1967 Oct-Dec	110	6	5.5%	18^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	3	4.3%	18^th
1968 Apr-Jun	91	8	8.8%	28^th
1968 Jul-Sep	89	5	5.6%	20^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	2	7.4%	33^rd
1969 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	55^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	1	4.2%	22^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	44	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Oct-Dec	155	13	8.4%	31^st
1970 Jan-Mar	99	13	13.1%	57^th
1970 Apr-Jun	91	12	13.2%	59^th
1970 Jul-Sep	116	8	6.9%	16^th
1970 Oct-Dec	104	11	10.6%	38^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	3	12.0%	42^nd
1971 Apr-Jun	89	8	9.0%	28^th
1971 Jul-Sep	109	20	18.3%	62^nd
1971 Oct-Dec	202	8	4.0%	14^th
1972 Jan-Mar	119	6	5.0%	21^st
1972 Apr-Jun	129	6	4.7%	19^th
1972 Jul-Sep	206	10	4.9%	31^st
1972 Oct-Oct	75	21	28.0%	71^st
1973 Jan-Mar	67	6	9.0%	51^st
1973 Apr-Jun	192	11	5.7%	32^nd
1973 Jul-Sep	166	46	27.7%	93^rd
1973 Oct-Dec	168	42	25.0%	87^th
1974 Jan-Mar	93	9	9.7%	52^nd
1974 Apr-Jun	178	6	3.4%	22^nd
1974 Jul-Sep	138	14	10.1%	58^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	19	14.3%	56^th
1975 Jan-Mar	117	5	4.3%	39^th
1975 Apr-Jun	140	21	15.0%	72^nd
1975 Jul-Sep	167	5	3.0%	12^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	25	13.9%	77^th
1976 Jan-Mar	103	5	4.9%	34^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	45	17.1%	71^st
1976 Jul-Sep	313	18	5.8%	20^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	13	100.0%	84^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	5	5.4%	31^st
1977 Apr-Jun	178	28	15.7%	79^th
1977 Jul-Sep	233	11	4.7%	36^th
1977 Oct-Dec	132	62	47.0%	95^th
1978 Jan-Mar	78	8	10.3%	54^th
1978 Apr-Jun	119	26	21.8%	89^th
1978 Jul-Sep	235	48	20.4%	77^th
1978 Oct-Oct	85	32	37.6%	89^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. James Pearson [R-KS, 1962-1978] leaves office as Senator from Kansas

Oct 15, 1978

Elections and Offices

Sen. James Pearson [R-KS, 1962-1978] takes office as Senator from Kansas

Jan 01, 1962