Rep. Charles Diggs Jr.

Former Representative from Michigan's 13^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1961-1980	Representative	Michigan's 13^th District
1959-1960	Representative	Michigan's 13^th District
1957-1958	Representative	Michigan's 13^th District
1955-1956	Representative	Michigan's 13^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Diggs was a far-left Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Diggs’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Diggs to other members of the House of Representatives in the 96^th 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

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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1955 to May 1980, Diggs missed 2,362 of 7,381 roll call votes, which is 32.0%. This is worse than the median of 7.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1955 Jan-Mar	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Apr-Jun	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jul-Aug	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	30	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	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jan-Mar	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jul-Aug	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Jan-Apr	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	52	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Sep-Sep	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Feb-Apr	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 May-Aug	68	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	45	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Oct-Oct	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	45	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	27	3	11.1%	84^th
1965 Apr-Jun	52	13	25.0%	92^nd
1965 Jul-Sep	93	33	35.5%	99^th
1965 Oct-Oct	20	8	40.0%	95^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	5	16.7%	81^st
1966 Apr-Jun	50	14	28.0%	89^th
1966 Jul-Sep	71	36	50.7%	96^th
1966 Oct-Oct	39	11	28.2%	65^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	58^th
1967 Apr-Jun	51	1	2.0%	95^th
1967 Jul-Sep	56	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	91	1	1.1%	90^th
1968 Jan-Mar	37	1	2.7%	90^th
1968 Apr-Jun	74	2	2.7%	89^th
1968 Jul-Sep	83	7	8.4%	89^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	2	8.0%	54^th
1969 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	76^th
1969 Apr-Jun	27	6	22.2%	86^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	19	43.2%	99^th
1969 Oct-Dec	84	28	33.3%	95^th
1970 Jan-Mar	34	16	47.1%	97^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	39	52.7%	97^th
1970 Jul-Sep	73	36	49.3%	97^th
1970 Oct-Dec	72	38	52.8%	97^th
1971 Jan-Mar	21	9	42.9%	99^th
1971 Apr-Jun	87	33	37.9%	97^th
1971 Jul-Sep	68	41	60.3%	99^th
1971 Oct-Dec	116	108	93.1%	99^th
1972 Jan-Mar	58	18	31.0%	92^nd
1972 Apr-Jun	110	47	42.7%	94^th
1972 Jul-Sep	99	17	17.2%	78^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	11	22.0%	69^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	62^nd
1973 Apr-Jun	187	44	23.5%	92^nd
1973 Jul-Sep	129	39	30.2%	96^th
1973 Oct-Dec	171	77	45.0%	96^th
1974 Jan-Mar	76	15	19.7%	92^nd
1974 Apr-Jun	159	87	54.7%	99^th
1974 Jul-Sep	135	87	64.4%	100^th
1974 Oct-Dec	139	37	26.6%	92^nd
1975 Jan-Mar	64	12	18.8%	93^rd
1975 Apr-Jun	178	79	44.4%	99^th
1975 Jul-Sep	131	49	37.4%	99^th
1975 Oct-Dec	185	25	13.5%	90^th
1976 Jan-Mar	97	31	32.0%	98^th
1976 Apr-Jun	259	57	22.0%	92^nd
1976 Jul-Sep	275	70	25.5%	95^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	1	14.3%	72^nd
1977 Jan-Mar	95	23	24.2%	96^th
1977 Apr-Jun	256	101	39.5%	98^th
1977 Jul-Sep	193	55	28.5%	97^th
1977 Oct-Dec	130	38	29.2%	98^th
1978 Jan-Mar	143	61	42.7%	99^th
1978 Apr-Jun	286	103	36.0%	97^th
1978 Jul-Sep	294	155	52.7%	99^th
1978 Oct-Oct	72	70	97.2%	100^th
1979 Jan-Mar	58	17	29.3%	93^rd
1979 Apr-Jun	203	104	51.2%	99^th
1979 Jul-Sep	178	100	56.2%	98^th
1979 Oct-Dec	183	93	50.8%	98^th
1980 Jan-Mar	143	75	52.4%	98^th
1980 Apr-Jun	105	48	45.7%	98^th

Primary Sources

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

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Charles Diggs [D-MI13, 1961-1980] leaves office as Representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Rep. Charles Diggs [D-MI13, 1961-1980] takes office as Representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district

Jan 03, 1961

Elections and Offices

Rep. Charles Diggs [D-MI13, 1961-1980] leaves office as Representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district

Sep 01, 1960

Elections and Offices

Rep. Charles Diggs [D-MI13, 1961-1980] takes office as Representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district

Jan 07, 1959

Elections and Offices

Rep. Charles Diggs [D-MI13, 1961-1980] leaves office as Representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district

Aug 24, 1958