Thomas Hagedorn, former Representative for Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District

Hagedorn was the representative for Minnesota’s 2^nd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1975 to 1982.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Hagedorn is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1982 positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Hagedorn sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 1977 to Dec 21, 1982. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Hagedorn sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (22%) Government Operations and Politics (16%) Private Legislation (16%) Agriculture and Food (14%) Economics and Public Finance (12%) Labor and Employment (11%) Finance and Financial Sector (5%) Environmental Protection (5%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1975 to Dec 1982, Hagedorn missed 460 of 4,901 roll call votes, which is 9.4%. 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 and major life events.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1975 Jan-Mar	68	1	1.5%	18^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	5	2.5%	22^nd
1975 Jul-Sep	154	8	5.2%	46^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	17	8.9%	72^nd
1976 Jan-Mar	106	2	1.9%	24^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	23	8.6%	48^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	25	8.9%	65^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	14	5.1%	39^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	5	2.5%	26^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	12	8.9%	61^st
1978 Jan-Mar	150	9	6.0%	41^st
1978 Apr-Jun	300	27	9.0%	57^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	45	14.6%	77^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	13	17.1%	85^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	6	9.5%	72^nd
1979 Apr-Jun	221	24	10.9%	71^st
1979 Jul-Sep	198	18	9.1%	64^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	22	11.6%	59^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	17	11.5%	65^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	20	10.2%	59^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	3	1.6%	11^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	14	20.9%	77^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	2	13.3%	72^nd
1981 Apr-Jun	90	5	5.6%	41^st
1981 Jul-Sep	106	13	12.3%	80^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	42	29.6%	94^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	5	10.4%	61^st
1982 Apr-Jun	119	8	6.7%	61^st
1982 Jul-Sep	193	8	4.1%	31^st
1982 Oct-Dec	99	47	47.5%	94^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

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