Rep. Ronald “Bo” Ginn

Former Representative for Georgia’s 1^st District

Ginn was the representative for Georgia’s 1^st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1973 to 1982.

Bioguide

Enacted Legislation

Ginn was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:

H.R. 6968 (97th): Military Construction Appropriation Act, 1983
H.R. 4241 (97th): Military Construction Appropriation Act, 1982
H.R. 13187 (95th): A bill to designate the United States Post Office and the Federal Building in Griffin, Georgia, the “John J. Flynt, Jr. Federal Building”.
H.R. 14977 (94th): An Act to name the Federal office building in Athens, Georgia, the “Robert G. Stephens Jr. Federal Building”.
H.R. 12927 (94th): A bill to designate a Federal building and U.S. Post Office in Jasper, Ga., as the Phil M. Landrum Federal Building and Post Office.
H.R. 11311 (93rd): A bill to name the Federal building, U.S. Post Office, U.S. Courthouse, in Brunswick, Ga., as the “Frank M. Scarlett Federal Building”.
H.R. 8406 (93rd): A bill for the relief of William M. Starrs.

Does 7 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Ginn sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Public Lands and Natural Resources (23%) Economics and Public Finance (20%) Government Operations and Politics (17%) Private Legislation (11%) Crime and Law Enforcement (9%) Energy (9%) Environmental Protection (6%) Armed Forces and National Security (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Ginn recently introduced the following legislation:

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1973 to Dec 1982, Ginn missed 456 of 5,979 roll call votes, which is 7.6%. This is on par with the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. 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
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	2	1.0%	8^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	2	1.1%	12^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	1	1.3%	12^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	5	2.9%	14^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	2	1.4%	16^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	9	6.4%	32^nd
1975 Jan-Mar	68	3	4.4%	39^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	9	4.5%	41^st
1975 Jul-Sep	154	2	1.3%	12^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	7	3.7%	37^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	2	1.9%	24^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	13	4.9%	25^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	1	0.4%	4^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	3	3.0%	30^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	14	5.1%	39^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	5	2.5%	26^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	7	5.2%	44^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	4	2.7%	22^nd
1978 Apr-Jun	300	3	1.0%	5^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	7	2.3%	15^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	1	0.5%	4^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	2	1.0%	9^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	28	14.7%	73^rd
1980 Jan-Mar	148	1	0.7%	4^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	9	4.6%	27^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	5	2.6%	20^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	29	43.3%	96^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	6	6.7%	47^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	11	10.4%	74^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	40	28.2%	93^rd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	18	37.5%	93^rd
1982 Apr-Jun	119	83	69.7%	99^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	104	53.9%	98^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	18	18.2%	74^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