William Boner, former U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 5th Congressional District

Dates	Title / State / District
1979-1988	Representative, Tennessee's 5^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Boner was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Boner’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Boner’s bills had a total of 195 cosponsors in the 100^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Boner to other members of the House of Representatives in the 100^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

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Voting Record

From Jan 1979 to Oct 1987, Boner missed 536 of 4,188 roll call votes, which is 12.8%. This is worse than the median of 5.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1987. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	2	0.9%	8^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	11	5.6%	50^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	6	3.2%	19^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	15	10.1%	60^th
1980 Apr-Jun	195	15	7.7%	51^st
1980 Jul-Sep	192	6	3.1%	27^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	6	9.0%	48^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	2	13.3%	74^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	8	9.0%	67^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	6	5.7%	59^th
1981 Oct-Dec	141	5	3.5%	35^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	6	12.5%	68^th
1982 Apr-Jun	118	12	10.2%	80^th
1982 Jul-Sep	192	25	13.0%	82^nd
1982 Oct-Dec	99	10	10.1%	58^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	10	23.3%	94^th
1983 Apr-Jun	181	7	3.9%	36^th
1983 Jul-Sep	127	17	13.4%	94^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	16	11.2%	79^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	8	15.1%	82^nd
1984 Apr-Jun	216	23	10.6%	76^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	20	21.1%	94^th
1984 Oct-Oct	35	16	45.7%	98^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	37^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	3	3.0%	39^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	14	9.5%	82^nd
1986 Jan-Mar	61	1	1.6%	18^th
1986 Apr-Jun	127	10	7.9%	83^rd
1986 Jul-Sep	201	54	26.9%	98^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	4	6.7%	63^rd
1987 Jan-Mar	39	10	25.6%	96^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	97	51.9%	98^th
1987 Jul-Sep	94	83	88.3%	100^th
1987 Oct-Dec	6	6	100.0%	99^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Boner [D-TN5, 1979-1988] leaves office as Representative for Tennessee's 5th congressional district

Oct 22, 1988

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Boner [D-TN5, 1979-1988] takes office as Representative for Tennessee's 5th congressional district

Jan 15, 1979

Rep. William Boner

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bills Sponsored

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices