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Rep. Charles Wilson [D-OH6]
U.S. Representative, Ohio’s 6th District

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State:Ohio [map]
District:6th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Jan 18, 1943 / 66 years old

To contact Charles Wilson, visit his official website. (Read our tips for communicating with Congress.) See the Project Vote Smart page for Wilson for more biographical and issue information.

Congressional Service

Charles Wilson has represented Ohio’s 6th congressional district since 2007.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Charles Wilson:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2007-2010
U.S. RepresentativeOhio’s 6th
(was preceeded by Ted Strickland)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Wilson is a moderate Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

"Leader-Follower Score"
Wilson is a follower according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Wilson tends to cosponsors the bills of other Members of Congress who do not cosponsor Wilson’s own bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Wilson, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Wilson and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Wilson.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Wilson's bills without Wilson returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Voting Record

Voting RecordCharles Wilson missed 159 (6%) of 2771 votes since Jan 4, 2007. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Wilson in 2007-2008 was $14,000 from employees of American Bankers Assn. Charles Wilson’s net worth was between $2,045,039 and $12,174,999 in 2007, according to Wilson’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Wilson.

Committee Membership

Charles Wilson sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Office of Charles Wilson via Wikipedia.