Leavitt was the representative for Ohio’s 19th congressional district and was a Jackson. He served from 1833 to 1835.
He was previously the representative for Ohio’s 11th congressional district as a Jackson from 1831 to 1833; and the representative for Ohio’s 11th congressional district as a Jackson from 1829 to 1831.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1830 to Jun 1834, Leavitt missed 120 of 772 roll call votes, which is 15.5%. This is on par with the median of 18.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1834. 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.
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
