Rep. De Leach

Former Representative for Michigan’s 4^th District

Leach was the representative for Michigan’s 4^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1859 to 1861.

He was previously the representative for Michigan’s 4^th congressional district as a Republican from 1857 to 1859.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1857 to Mar 1861, Leach missed 247 of 981 roll call votes, which is 25.2%. This is on par with the median of 24.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1861. 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 1857-Feb 1858	104	8	7.7%	13^th
1858 Mar-May	180	74	41.1%	87^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	68	100.0%	97^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	196	38	19.4%	55^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	7	10.1%	41^st
1860 Mar-May	126	26	20.6%	34^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	12	12.4%	13^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	14	9.9%	18^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