Rep. Chalmers Wylie

Former Representative from Ohio's 15^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1967-1992	Representative	Ohio's 15^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Wylie was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Wylie’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Wylie to other members of the House of Representatives in the 102^nd Congress on leadership and ideology.

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

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Jan 1967 to Oct 1992, Wylie missed 768 of 12,046 roll call votes, which is 6.4%. This is worse than the median of 4.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	1	1.8%	67^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	78	2	2.6%	73^rd
1968 Jul-Sep	90	3	3.3%	73^rd
1968 Oct-Oct	25	3	12.0%	67^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	1	2.3%	32^nd
1969 Oct-Dec	86	10	11.6%	62^nd
1970 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	7	9.5%	27^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	4	5.3%	24^th
1970 Oct-Dec	80	4	5.0%	20^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	27^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	7	7.8%	32^nd
1971 Jul-Sep	72	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Oct-Dec	133	14	10.5%	48^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	2	3.1%	22^nd
1972 Apr-Jun	113	12	10.6%	54^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	5	5.0%	33^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	50	17	34.0%	88^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	5	2.6%	19^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	12	9.2%	78^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	7	3.9%	31^st
1974 Jan-Mar	77	1	1.3%	13^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	25	14.8%	77^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	7	4.7%	44^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	3	2.1%	17^th
1975 Jan-Mar	67	5	7.5%	73^rd
1975 Apr-Jun	196	28	14.3%	89^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	2	1.4%	15^th
1975 Oct-Dec	189	8	4.2%	52^nd
1976 Jan-Mar	102	8	7.8%	66^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	25	9.4%	62^nd
1976 Jul-Sep	272	38	14.0%	83^rd
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	99	2	2.0%	35^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	5	1.8%	17^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	2	1.5%	24^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	10	6.7%	48^th
1978 Apr-Jun	298	19	6.4%	44^th
1978 Jul-Sep	307	13	4.2%	34^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	3	4.0%	39^th
1979 Jan-Mar	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	218	9	4.1%	36^th
1979 Jul-Sep	193	33	17.1%	90^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	21	11.1%	62^nd
1980 Jan-Mar	148	5	3.4%	22^nd
1980 Apr-Jun	196	9	4.6%	35^th
1980 Jul-Sep	191	8	4.2%	37^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	13	19.4%	78^th
1981 Jan-Mar	14	3	21.4%	91^st
1981 Apr-Jun	88	9	10.2%	74^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	6	5.7%	60^th
1981 Oct-Dec	140	8	5.7%	52^nd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	2	4.2%	41^st
1982 Apr-Jun	119	3	2.5%	32^nd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	23	11.9%	80^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	6	6.1%	40^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	18^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	8	4.4%	40^th
1983 Jul-Sep	129	5	3.9%	60^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	18	12.6%	86^th
1984 Jan-Mar	51	9	17.6%	89^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	14	6.3%	54^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	5	5.3%	56^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	29^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	37^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	15	9.7%	82^nd
1985 Jul-Sep	101	5	5.0%	58^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	12	8.1%	80^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	13	21.3%	91^st
1986 Apr-Jun	128	4	3.1%	46^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	5	2.5%	41^st
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	4	10.3%	79^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	8	4.3%	51^st
1987 Jul-Sep	95	12	12.6%	89^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	15	9.0%	72^nd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	3	6.1%	57^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	10	6.2%	66^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	19	12.5%	86^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	2	2.2%	49^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	2	14.3%	84^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	2	1.9%	31^st
1989 Jul-Sep	128	8	6.3%	81^st
1989 Oct-Nov	121	8	6.6%	69^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	31^st
1990 Apr-Jun	150	14	9.3%	85^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	13	7.1%	82^nd
1990 Oct-Oct	143	16	11.2%	89^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	5	3.6%	56^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	5	3.1%	56^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	5	7.6%	69^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	14	7.6%	72^nd
1992 Jul-Sep	196	3	1.5%	29^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	3	7.3%	60^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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. Chalmers Wylie [R-OH15, 1967-1992] leaves office as Representative for Ohio's 15th congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Chalmers Wylie [R-OH15, 1967-1992] takes office as Representative for Ohio's 15th congressional district

Jan 10, 1967