Rep. John Myers

Former Representative from Indiana's 7^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title / State / District
1967-1996	Representative, Indiana's 7^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Myers was a centrist Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Myers’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Myers’s bills had a total of 30 cosponsors in the 104^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Myers to other members of the House of Representatives in the 104^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 Myers’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1967 to Sep 1996, Myers missed 549 of 14,513 roll call votes, which is 3.8%. This is worse than the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	72^nd
1967 Apr-Jun	55	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	88	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	3	12.0%	67^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	2	12.5%	79^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	4	9.1%	60^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	1	1.1%	29^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	13	37.1%	86^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	6	7.9%	38^th
1970 Oct-Dec	78	11	14.1%	52^nd
1971 Jan-Mar	21	3	14.3%	64^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	4	4.4%	24^th
1971 Jul-Sep	71	1	1.4%	24^th
1971 Oct-Dec	133	4	3.0%	8^th
1972 Jan-Mar	63	3	4.8%	24^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	2	1.8%	16^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	5	5.0%	28^th
1972 Oct-Oct	49	3	6.1%	35^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	9	25.0%	80^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	10	5.3%	45^th
1973 Jul-Sep	128	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	12	6.7%	55^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	6	7.8%	48^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	23	13.6%	67^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	6	4.1%	43^rd
1974 Oct-Dec	141	4	2.8%	19^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	3	4.4%	51^st
1975 Apr-Jun	199	3	1.5%	12^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	9	6.2%	51^st
1975 Oct-Dec	191	0	0.0%	0^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	3	2.9%	34^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	7	2.6%	14^th
1976 Jul-Sep	279	2	0.7%	10^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	97	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Apr-Jun	269	30	11.2%	77^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	4	2.0%	23^rd
1977 Oct-Dec	134	5	3.7%	43^rd
1978 Jan-Mar	149	5	3.4%	31^st
1978 Apr-Jun	299	7	2.3%	23^rd
1978 Jul-Sep	308	10	3.2%	27^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	6	8.0%	61^st
1979 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	37^th
1979 Apr-Jun	219	4	1.8%	22^nd
1979 Jul-Sep	196	8	4.1%	44^th
1979 Oct-Dec	188	14	7.4%	42^nd
1980 Jan-Mar	148	9	6.1%	35^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	1	0.5%	5^th
1980 Jul-Sep	191	1	0.5%	9^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	6	6.7%	56^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	1	0.9%	16^th
1981 Oct-Dec	140	5	3.6%	40^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	3	6.3%	56^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	4	2.1%	19^th
1982 Oct-Dec	98	3	3.1%	34^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	2	4.7%	30^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	3	1.6%	17^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	10	7.7%	77^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	1	0.7%	7^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	13	5.8%	53^rd
1984 Jul-Sep	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	28^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	153	7	4.6%	59^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	1	1.0%	23^rd
1985 Oct-Dec	148	6	4.1%	54^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	2	3.3%	30^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	3	2.3%	41^st
1986 Jul-Sep	201	2	1.0%	22^nd
1986 Oct-Oct	60	2	3.3%	47^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	3	7.7%	72^nd
1987 Apr-Jun	187	7	3.7%	51^st
1987 Jul-Sep	95	9	9.5%	82^nd
1987 Oct-Dec	167	8	4.8%	39^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	21	13.0%	91^st
1988 Jul-Sep	152	7	4.6%	55^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	12	2	16.7%	93^rd
1989 Apr-Jun	105	5	4.8%	62^nd
1989 Jul-Sep	128	2	1.6%	35^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	2	1.7%	25^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	34^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	2	1.3%	26^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	5	2.7%	48^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	4	2.8%	45^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	31^st
1991 Apr-Jun	139	7	5.0%	68^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	2	2.5%	31^st
1991 Oct-Nov	162	11	6.8%	83^rd
1992 Jan-Mar	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	1	0.5%	10^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	10	5.1%	68^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	1	2.4%	44^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	10	7.9%	88^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	2	1.1%	21^st
1993 Jul-Sep	164	4	2.4%	58^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	4	3.0%	67^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	3	1.4%	36^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	3	1.1%	44^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	9	3.9%	72^nd
1995 Oct-Dec	185	16	8.6%	88^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	24	21.8%	95^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	13	7.1%	83^rd
1996 Jul-Sep	163	7	4.3%	71^st

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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

Rep. John Myers [R-IN7, 1967-1996] leaves office as Representative for Indiana's 7th congressional district

Oct 04, 1996

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Myers [R-IN7, 1967-1996] takes office as Representative for Indiana's 7th congressional district

Jan 10, 1967