Sen. William Saxbe

Former Senator for Ohio

Saxbe was a senator from Ohio and was a Republican. He served from 1969 to 1973.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. William Saxbe [R-OH, 1969-1973]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

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

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Saxbe sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Transportation and Public Works (50%) Private Legislation (50%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Saxbe recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1969 to Dec 1973, Saxbe missed 710 of 2,215 roll call votes, which is 32.1%. This is much worse than the median of 13.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1973. 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
1969 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	26	5	19.2%	72^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	44	9	20.5%	89^th
1969 Oct-Dec	158	45	28.5%	88^th
1970 Jan-Mar	100	58	58.0%	96^th
1970 Apr-Jun	92	26	28.3%	91^st
1970 Jul-Sep	123	27	22.0%	56^th
1970 Oct-Dec	106	32	30.2%	67^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	8	32.0%	81^st
1971 Apr-Jun	89	31	34.8%	87^th
1971 Jul-Sep	109	31	28.4%	86^th
1971 Oct-Dec	202	122	60.4%	99^th
1972 Jan-Mar	119	20	16.8%	61^st
1972 Apr-Jun	130	47	36.2%	85^th
1972 Jul-Sep	206	42	20.4%	74^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	27	36.0%	80^th
1973 Jan-Mar	67	23	34.3%	89^th
1973 Apr-Jun	192	55	28.6%	93^rd
1973 Jul-Sep	167	41	24.6%	90^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	61	36.3%	93^rd

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