Rep. Benjamin Leiter

Former Representative for Ohio’s 18^th District

Leiter was the representative for Ohio’s 18^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1857 to 1859.

He was previously the representative for Ohio’s 18^th congressional district as an Ind. Republican-Democrat from 1855 to 1857.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1855 to Mar 1859, Leiter missed 152 of 1,277 roll call votes, which is 11.9%. This is better than the median of 23.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1859. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	177	26	14.7%	44^th
1856 Apr-Jul	203	72	35.5%	64^th
1856 Aug-Aug	74	3	4.1%	19^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	2	4.5%	32^nd
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	231	15	6.5%	16^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	104	6	5.8%	5^th
1858 Mar-May	180	4	2.2%	2^nd
1858 Jun-Jun	68	6	8.8%	13^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	196	18	9.2%	15^th

Primary Sources

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

unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources