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Shelton Farrar Leake
Representative from VirginiaHOUSEINDEPENDENT1859–1861ID L000176
LegislationHEADLINE
90%with Dems
of 235 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
90%with Dems
of 235 · both combined
Career arc
Legislation leads. Each point is one Congress: how often they sided with the Democratic majority on contested bills, resolutions and amendments.
100%75%50%25%0%sides with Democrats ↑sides with Republicans ↓1859
1859–6036th Congress
Sat as an Independent
90.2%with Democrats
of 235 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Sat as a DemocratSat as a RepublicanVotes available below
Votes
Every roll call before 1973 has no description. These rows carry a date, usually a bill number, how they voted and which side that matched — nothing is filled in by hand.
DateBillVoteTypeCastSided with
Mar 2, 1861noneLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Mar 2, 1861noneLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Mar 2, 1861H.R. 910LEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (H.R. 910), how they voted and which side that matched.Party majoritiesDemocrats Nay · Republicans YeaCounts toward scoreYes — the parties split.
Where this lands
NAYSided with the Democratic majority
Mar 2, 1861noneLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Mar 2, 1861H.R. 971LEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Mar 1, 1861noneLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Mar 1, 1861S. 563LEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Mar 1, 1861noneLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Mar 1, 1861noneLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
9 most recent roll calls shown · 235 contested votes scored in the 36th CongressAll votes this Congress →
By policy area
career · legislationThe record carries no policy area for any of these roll calls, so there is nothing to break out.
Service record
1 Congresses36th · 1859
Independent · House · VA36th–36th
Term datesexact