Cotton was a senator from New Hampshire and was a Republican. He served from 1975 to 1975.
He was previously a senator from New Hampshire as a Republican from 1954 to 1974; and the representative for New Hampshire’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1947 to 1952.
![Photo of Sen. Norris Cotton [R-NH, 1975-1975]](/static/legislator-photos/402921-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Cotton is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 1974 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 Cotton sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Dec 20, 1974. See full analysis methodology.
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Cotton sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Private Legislation (50%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (50%)
Recent Bills
Some of Cotton’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- S. 4254 (93rd): A bill to authorize the appointment of Alexander P. Butterfield to the ...
- S.Res. 469 (93rd): Resolution expressing the use of the Daniel Webster desk.
- S. 3288 (93rd): Footwear Articles Import Relief Trade Act
- S. 2048 (93rd): Natural Gas Supply Act
- S. 2047 (93rd): An original bill to authorize a Federal payment for the planning of ...
- S. 871 (93rd): A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to correct certain ...
- S. 680 (93rd): A bill for the relief of Vera Lucia Carvalho, Marcia Maria Carvalho, ...
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1954 to Sep 1975, Cotton missed 768 of 5,789 roll call votes, which is 13.3%. This is on par with the median of 13.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Sep 1975. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills