Mosher was the representative for Ohio’s 13th 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 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...
- H.R. 14875 (94th): National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Conference Act
- H.R. 14876 (94th): Earthquake Hazard Reduction Act
- H.R. 14650 (94th): National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Conference Act
- H.R. 14491 (94th): National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Conference Act
- H.R. 14284 (94th): Bill of Rights Procedures Act
- H.R. 14285 (94th): A bill to deny Members of Congress any increase in pay under ...
- H.R. 13845 (94th): National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Conference Act
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.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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