David Bowen, former Representative from Mississippi's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1982	Representative	Mississippi's 2^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

Bowen was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Bowen’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Bowen to other members of the House of Representatives in the 97^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Jan 1973 to Dec 1982, Bowen missed 552 of 5,931 roll call votes, which is 9.3%. This is worse than the median of 7.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	57^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	7	3.7%	21^st
1973 Jul-Sep	130	7	5.4%	54^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	5	2.8%	25^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	1	1.3%	12^th
1974 Apr-Jun	168	25	14.9%	77^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	9	6.1%	62^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	140	9	6.4%	37^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	5	7.4%	62^nd
1975 Apr-Jun	196	10	5.1%	51^st
1975 Jul-Sep	144	7	4.9%	49^th
1975 Oct-Dec	186	12	6.5%	66^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	17	16.2%	88^th
1976 Apr-Jun	265	28	10.6%	66^th
1976 Jul-Sep	276	17	6.2%	54^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	7	7.0%	63^rd
1977 Apr-Jun	273	10	3.7%	32^nd
1977 Jul-Sep	194	32	16.5%	89^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	5	3.7%	36^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	16	10.7%	71^st
1978 Apr-Jun	300	45	15.0%	81^st
1978 Jul-Sep	308	14	4.5%	33^rd
1978 Oct-Oct	75	2	2.7%	22^nd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	5	7.9%	69^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	17	7.7%	58^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	18	9.1%	66^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	23	12.1%	67^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	9	6.1%	36^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	34	17.3%	88^th
1980 Jul-Sep	190	49	25.8%	96^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	7	10.4%	52^nd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	44^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	4	4.5%	36^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	5	4.7%	47^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	11	7.7%	57^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	16	13.4%	81^st
1982 Jul-Sep	193	58	30.1%	92^nd
1982 Oct-Dec	99	2	2.0%	11^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. David Bowen [D-MS2, 1973-1982] leaves office as Representative for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. David Bowen [D-MS2, 1973-1982] takes office as Representative for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Rep. David Bowen

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices