Rep. Robert Leggett

Former Representative from California's 4^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1963-1978	Representative	California's 4^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Leggett to other members of the House of Representatives in the 95^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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1963 to Oct 1978, Leggett missed 880 of 5,968 roll call votes, which is 14.7%. This is worse than the median of 8.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
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	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	5	17.9%	92^nd
1965 Apr-Jun	52	8	15.4%	77^th
1965 Jul-Sep	97	14	14.4%	82^nd
1965 Oct-Oct	18	1	5.6%	51^st
1966 Jan-Mar	29	8	27.6%	93^rd
1966 Apr-Jun	48	14	29.2%	88^th
1966 Jul-Sep	66	13	19.7%	75^th
1966 Oct-Oct	36	7	19.4%	57^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	58	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	97	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	83	9	10.8%	95^th
1968 Oct-Oct	24	3	12.5%	66^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	6	21.4%	85^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	3	6.7%	41^st
1969 Oct-Dec	83	16	19.3%	82^nd
1970 Jan-Mar	33	9	27.3%	87^th
1970 Apr-Jun	73	18	24.7%	80^th
1970 Jul-Sep	72	20	27.8%	88^th
1970 Oct-Dec	77	13	16.9%	61^st
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	58^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	18	20.2%	79^th
1971 Jul-Sep	70	7	10.0%	63^rd
1971 Oct-Dec	132	18	13.6%	59^th
1972 Jan-Mar	62	10	16.1%	81^st
1972 Apr-Jun	113	19	16.8%	67^th
1972 Jul-Sep	98	23	23.5%	87^th
1972 Oct-Oct	49	7	14.3%	56^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	9	25.0%	88^th
1973 Apr-Jun	188	41	21.8%	90^th
1973 Jul-Sep	129	10	7.8%	67^th
1973 Oct-Dec	179	34	19.0%	88^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	18	23.4%	94^th
1974 Apr-Jun	168	17	10.1%	53^rd
1974 Jul-Sep	148	18	12.2%	82^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	141	7	5.0%	29^th
1975 Jan-Mar	67	16	23.9%	97^th
1975 Apr-Jun	196	25	12.8%	82^nd
1975 Jul-Sep	145	21	14.5%	87^th
1975 Oct-Dec	189	18	9.5%	78^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	10	9.4%	69^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	25	9.5%	58^th
1976 Jul-Sep	278	24	8.6%	65^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	3	42.9%	88^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	21	21.0%	94^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	23	8.4%	61^st
1977 Jul-Sep	197	27	13.7%	81^st
1977 Oct-Dec	133	13	9.8%	69^th
1978 Jan-Mar	147	40	27.2%	95^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	75	25.0%	88^th
1978 Jul-Sep	307	86	28.0%	89^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	28	37.3%	91^st

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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Robert Leggett [D-CA4, 1963-1978] leaves office as Representative for California's 4th congressional district

Oct 15, 1978

Elections and Offices

Rep. Robert Leggett [D-CA4, 1963-1978] takes office as Representative for California's 4th congressional district

Jan 09, 1963