Former member of Congress · last served 100th Congress
John J. Duncan
John Duncan was a Republican U.S. representative from Tennessee, first elected to Congress in 1965.
How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.
Recent votes
No recorded roll-call votes in PORKER’s records. Roll-call records start in 2011.
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 4790 College Savings Bond Act of 1988Nov 10, 1988 · Provisions of Measure Incorporated Into H.R.4333.
- H.R. 1288 Low-Income Opportunity Improvement Act of 1987Oct 13, 1988 · Provisions of Measure Incorporated Into H.R.1720.
- H.R. 1287 A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on 4-chlor-2-nitro aniline (also known as p-chloro-o-nitro aniline).Aug 23, 1988 · Provisions of Measure Incorporated Into H.R.4848.
- H.R. 1286 A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on 3,4 diamino phenetole dihydrogen sulfate (also known as diamino phenetole sulfate).Aug 23, 1988 · Provisions of Measure Incorporated Into H.R.4848.
- H.R. 1285 Ute Indian Water Settlement Act of 1989Aug 23, 1988 · Provisions of Measure Incorporated Into H.R.4848.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 1093 (100th) A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain associations of football coaches to have a qualified pension plan which includes a…159 cosponsors
- H.R. 470 (100th) A bill to repeal section 134 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, eliminating the deduction for State and local sales taxes.22 cosponsors
- H.R. 2311 (100th) A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that unearned income of a child attributable to damages received on account of personal injuries…20 cosponsors
- H.R. 1779 (100th) Residential Lot Interest Expense Conforming Act of 198713 cosponsors
- H.R. 1399 (100th) Appointment of American Distributors of Japanese Automobiles Act of 19873 cosponsors
- H.R. 2688 (100th) A bill to amend title 11 of the United States Code to provide that the trustee may not avoid certain transfers made to depositors by uninsured industrial…2 cosponsors
- H.R. 2768 (100th) Medicare Diabetic Foot Disease Prevention Amendments of 19872 cosponsors
- H.R. 3323 (100th) A bill to provide that certain disclaimers shall not be treated as transfers for purposes of Federal estate and gift taxation.2 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Duncan has won
Rep. Duncan has won 6 U.S. House elections (1976–1986). Of the contested races, margins ran from 25.6 to 63.7 points.
Full election history for this seat →
Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
100th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 36 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 36 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 0 | None listed |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 0 | None listed |
| With a committee report listed | 0 | None listed |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 100th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
- Fields
- cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
- PORKER copy refreshed
- October 26, 2026 (nightly)
Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.
Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.