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Rep. Melton “Mel” Hancock

Former Representative from Missouri’s 7^th District, Republican

Bioguide

Hancock, a Republican, was the representative for Missouri's 7^th congressional district from 1989 to 1996.

Photo of Rep. Melton “Mel” Hancock [R-MO7, 1989-1996]

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Hancock sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 1996. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Hancock is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Hancock sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (100%)

Recent Bills

Some of Hancock’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1989 to Sep 1996, Hancock missed 59 of 4,298 roll call votes, which is 1.4%. This is better 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 Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	1	1.0%	18^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	1	0.8%	14^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	1	0.7%	14^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	1	0.5%	18^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	1	0.7%	19^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	2	3.2%	52^nd
1991 Apr-Jun	139	1	0.7%	14^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	1	1.2%	12^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	3	1.9%	37^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	1	1.5%	30^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	1	0.5%	10^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	1	0.5%	12^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	4	3.1%	58^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	2	1.1%	21^st
1993 Jul-Sep	164	8	4.9%	78^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	1	1.1%	21^st
1994 Apr-Jun	219	1	0.5%	17^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	2	1.4%	30^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	1	0.4%	18^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	9	4.8%	75^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	1	0.4%	15^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	5	2.7%	57^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	2	1.8%	45^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	1	0.5%	17^th
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:

Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election information
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills