Elections and Offices
Sen. Edgar Cowan [R-PA, 1861-1867] leaves office as Senator from Pennsylvania
Mar 03, 1867Sen. Edgar Cowan
Former Senator from Pennsylvania
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Senator | Pennsylvania |
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Voting Record
From Mar 1861 to Mar 1867, Cowan missed 538 of 1,886 roll call votes, which is 28.5%. This is worse than the median of 23.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1867. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
Recent Legislative Activity
Elections and Offices
Sen. Edgar Cowan [R-PA, 1861-1867] takes office as Senator from Pennsylvania
Jul 04, 1861