Charles Mosher, former Representative for Ohio's 13th Congressional District

Mosher was the representative for Ohio’s 13^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1961 to 1976.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Mosher is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1976 positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Mosher sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 1, 1976. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Mosher sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (29%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (28%) Crime and Law Enforcement (28%) Emergency Management (9%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1961 to Oct 1976, Mosher missed 550 of 4,785 roll call votes, which is 11.5%. This is worse than the median of 8.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1976. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1961 Jan-Apr	22	1	4.5%	90^th
1961 May-Aug	65	1	1.5%	50^th
1961 Sep-Sep	29	2	6.9%	77^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	3	9.7%	95^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	49	2	4.1%	66^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	3	10.7%	59^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	5	9.4%	49^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	5	5.1%	37^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	8	36.4%	83^rd
1966 Jan-Mar	30	2	6.7%	44^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	8	15.7%	61^st
1966 Jul-Sep	72	14	19.4%	67^th
1966 Oct-Oct	40	6	15.0%	40^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	50^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	1	1.8%	47^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	3	3.1%	59^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	79	2	2.5%	52^nd
1968 Jul-Sep	91	1	1.1%	17^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	11	44.0%	99^th
1969 Jan-Mar	15	6	40.0%	98^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	5	17.9%	73^rd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	3	6.7%	37^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	16	18.2%	71^st
1970 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	12	16.2%	50^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	1	1.3%	7^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	17	21.0%	60^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	2	2.2%	8^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	4	5.4%	36^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	21	15.7%	63^rd
1972 Jan-Mar	64	3	4.7%	28^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	43	37.7%	92^nd
1972 Jul-Sep	101	24	23.8%	84^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	5	10.0%	38^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	22	11.5%	65^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	6	4.6%	46^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	17	9.3%	61^st
1974 Jan-Mar	79	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	15	8.8%	46^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	13	8.8%	67^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	15	10.6%	56^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	21	30.9%	97^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	63	31.7%	97^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	8	5.2%	43^rd
1975 Oct-Dec	191	40	20.9%	92^nd
1976 Jan-Mar	106	9	8.5%	57^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	37	13.9%	64^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	43	15.3%	75^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^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
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

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