Rep. Morgan Murphy

Former Representative for Illinois’s 2^nd District

Murphy was the representative for Illinois’s 2^nd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1973 to 1980.

He was previously the representative for Illinois’s 3^rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1971 to 1972.

Bioguide

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Murphy is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1980 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 Murphy sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 14, 1975 to Dec 13, 1980. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Murphy sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Housing and Community Development (100%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Murphy recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1971 to Dec 1980, Murphy missed 958 of 5,813 roll call votes, which is 16.5%. This is much worse than the median of 8.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. 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
1971 Jan-Mar	22	8	36.4%	96^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	26	28.9%	93^rd
1971 Jul-Sep	74	6	8.1%	49^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	20	14.9%	59^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	10	15.6%	73^rd
1972 Apr-Jun	114	11	9.6%	40^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	6	5.9%	38^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	17	34.0%	83^rd
1973 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	61^st
1973 Apr-Jun	191	14	7.3%	42^nd
1973 Jul-Sep	131	7	5.3%	49^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	36	19.8%	88^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	11	13.9%	72^nd
1974 Apr-Jun	170	25	14.7%	72^nd
1974 Jul-Sep	148	7	4.7%	42^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	141	12	8.5%	45^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	8	11.8%	73^rd
1975 Apr-Jun	199	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	6	3.1%	28^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	16	15.1%	84^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	19	7.1%	39^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	34	12.1%	74^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	97	4	4.1%	45^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	28	10.3%	67^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	24	12.1%	76^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	8	5.9%	47^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	21	14.0%	77^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	41	13.7%	73^rd
1978 Jul-Sep	308	32	10.4%	63^rd
1978 Oct-Oct	76	8	10.5%	71^st
1979 Jan-Mar	63	3	4.8%	52^nd
1979 Apr-Jun	221	29	13.1%	75^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	60	30.3%	96^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	106	55.8%	98^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	148	100.0%	99^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	50	25.4%	90^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	68	35.4%	94^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	25	37.3%	89^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