Norris Cotton, former Senator for New Hampshire

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Cotton sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the Senate.

Each dot in the chart below was a member of the Senate in 1976. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Cotton is shown as a purple triangle. (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...

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Voting Record

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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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	3	11.5%	67^th
1955 Apr-Jun	38	4	10.5%	67^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	5	21.7%	83^rd
1956 Jan-Mar	47	3	6.4%	67^th
1956 Apr-Jun	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	33	1	3.0%	59^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	4	8.9%	48^th
1957 Jul-Aug	46	3	6.5%	59^th
1958 Feb-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	86	3	3.5%	36^th
1958 Jul-Aug	76	6	7.9%	68^th
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	128	2	1.6%	9^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	79	2	2.5%	3^rd
1960 May-Aug	123	5	4.1%	24^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	137	3	2.2%	14^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	4	11.1%	46^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	62	7	11.3%	58^th
1962 Jul-Sep	122	10	8.2%	42^nd
1962 Oct-Oct	18	2	11.1%	63^rd
1963 Jan-Mar	8	2	25.0%	73^rd
1963 Apr-Jun	73	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	61	2	3.3%	11^th
1963 Oct-Dec	87	7	8.0%	42^nd
1964 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	24^th
1964 Apr-Jun	138	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	106	10	9.4%	53^rd
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	32	1	3.1%	4^th
1965 Apr-Jun	106	11	10.4%	26^th
1965 Jul-Sep	106	10	9.4%	46^th
1965 Oct-Oct	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	2	7.1%	26^th
1966 Apr-Jun	56	5	8.9%	13^th
1966 Jul-Sep	119	2	1.7%	4^th
1966 Oct-Oct	35	5	14.3%	33^rd
1967 Jan-Mar	53	7	13.2%	39^th
1967 Apr-Jun	70	4	5.7%	20^th
1967 Jul-Sep	81	4	4.9%	20^th
1967 Oct-Dec	111	6	5.4%	7^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	6	8.7%	35^th
1968 Apr-Jun	96	18	18.8%	50^th
1968 Jul-Sep	89	22	24.7%	72^nd
1968 Oct-Oct	27	23	85.2%	85^th
1969 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	34^th
1969 Apr-Jun	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	1	2.3%	17^th
1969 Oct-Dec	158	4	2.5%	3^rd
1970 Jan-Mar	100	5	5.0%	23^rd
1970 Apr-Jun	92	5	5.4%	23^rd
1970 Jul-Sep	123	41	33.3%	74^th
1970 Oct-Dec	106	16	15.1%	42^nd
1971 Feb-Mar	25	3	12.0%	34^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	5	5.6%	6^th
1971 Jul-Sep	109	27	24.8%	79^th
1971 Oct-Dec	202	53	26.2%	86^th
1972 Jan-Mar	119	16	13.4%	49^th
1972 Apr-Jun	130	14	10.8%	35^th
1972 Jul-Sep	206	38	18.4%	70^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	3	4.0%	23^rd
1973 Jan-Mar	67	2	3.0%	18^th
1973 Apr-Jun	192	72	37.5%	96^th
1973 Jul-Sep	167	73	43.7%	97^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	77	45.8%	97^th
1974 Jan-Mar	94	23	24.5%	89^th
1974 Apr-Jun	179	21	11.7%	68^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	16	11.6%	63^rd
1974 Oct-Dec	133	32	24.1%	75^th
1975 Jul-Sep	21	4	19.0%	84^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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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