William Bray, former Representative for Indiana's 6th Congressional District

Bray was the representative for Indiana’s 6^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1967 to 1974.

He was previously the representative for Indiana’s 7^th congressional district as a Republican from 1951 to 1966.

Photo of Rep. William Bray [R-IN6, 1967-1974]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Bray is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives 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 Bray sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Dec 20, 1974. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Bray sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (27%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (20%) Education (20%) Law (20%) Armed Forces and National Security (13%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1951 to Dec 1974, Bray missed 315 of 4,363 roll call votes, which is 7.2%. This is better than the median of 9.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1974. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1951 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Apr-Jun	40	2	5.0%	63^rd
1951 Jul-Sep	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	62^nd
1952 Apr-Jun	40	1	2.5%	48^th
1952 Jul-Jul	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Aug	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Aug	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Apr-Jun	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jul-Aug	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	30	1	3.3%	60^th
1956 Jul-Jul	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jul-Aug	52	4	7.7%	86^th
1958 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jul-Aug	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Jan-Apr	16	1	6.2%	85^th
1959 May-Aug	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Sep-Sep	17	1	5.9%	76^th
1960 Feb-Apr	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 May-Aug	70	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	65	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	2	9.5%	90^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	2	6.2%	94^th
1962 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	2	6.5%	84^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	50	6	12.0%	89^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	1	2.9%	58^th
1964 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	1	3.6%	27^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	12	22.6%	85^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	14	14.3%	73^rd
1965 Oct-Oct	22	11	50.0%	92^nd
1966 Jan-Mar	30	3	10.0%	53^rd
1966 Apr-Jun	51	6	11.8%	50^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	7	9.7%	35^th
1966 Oct-Oct	40	23	57.5%	76^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	2	6.5%	80^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	1	1.8%	50^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	3	3.1%	59^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	1	2.6%	58^th
1968 Apr-Jun	79	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	2	2.2%	30^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	3	10.7%	49^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	2	4.4%	24^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	10	11.4%	46^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	6	17.1%	66^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	22	29.7%	85^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	31	40.8%	94^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	10	12.3%	36^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	21	23.3%	81^st
1971 Jul-Sep	74	16	21.6%	84^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	11	8.2%	33^rd
1972 Jan-Mar	64	5	7.8%	42^nd
1972 Apr-Jun	114	16	14.0%	55^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	4	4.0%	21^st
1972 Oct-Oct	50	2	4.0%	20^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	58^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	26	13.6%	71^st
1973 Jul-Sep	131	7	5.3%	49^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	2	2.5%	14^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	4	2.4%	11^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	3	2.1%	12^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

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