Williamson Stuckey Jr., former Representative for Georgia's 8th Congressional District

Stuckey was the representative for Georgia’s 8^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1967 to 1976.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Stuckey is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1976 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 Stuckey sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 1, 1976. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Stuckey was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

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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

Stuckey sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (45%) Finance and Financial Sector (18%) Crime and Law Enforcement (18%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (9%) Agriculture and Food (9%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1967 to Oct 1976, Stuckey missed 944 of 3,921 roll call votes, which is 24.1%. This is much worse than the median of 8.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1976. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	50^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	1	1.8%	47^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	1	1.7%	44^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	4	4.1%	70^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	2	5.3%	83^rd
1968 Apr-Jun	79	8	10.1%	95^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	3	3.3%	43^rd
1968 Oct-Oct	25	1	4.0%	32^nd
1969 Jan-Mar	16	4	25.0%	91^st
1969 Apr-Jun	28	7	25.0%	83^rd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	10	22.2%	86^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	12	13.6%	55^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	5	14.3%	61^st
1970 Apr-Jun	74	24	32.4%	87^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	17	22.4%	74^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	18	22.2%	64^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	6	27.3%	89^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	36	40.0%	97^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	20	27.0%	90^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	46	34.3%	92^nd
1972 Jan-Mar	64	13	20.3%	83^rd
1972 Apr-Jun	114	26	22.8%	74^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	38	37.6%	95^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	15	30.0%	77^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	59^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	19	9.9%	59^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	9	6.9%	62^nd
1973 Oct-Dec	182	16	8.8%	58^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	18	22.8%	91^st
1974 Apr-Jun	170	49	28.8%	93^rd
1974 Jul-Sep	148	73	49.3%	98^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	44	31.2%	93^rd
1975 Jan-Mar	68	8	11.8%	72^nd
1975 Apr-Jun	199	22	11.1%	68^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	26	16.9%	86^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	18	9.4%	67^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	25	23.6%	91^st
1976 Apr-Jun	267	172	64.4%	98^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	123	43.8%	94^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^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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