Henry Bowen, former Representative from Virginia's 9th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1887-1889	Representative	Virginia's 9^th District
1883-1885	Representative	Virginia's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1883 to Mar 1889, Bowen missed 413 of 651 roll call votes, which is 63.4%. This is worse than the median of 32.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1889. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	33	24	72.7%	98^th
1884 Mar-May	70	51	72.9%	99^th
1884 Jun-Jul	83	65	78.3%	92^nd
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	119	81.5%	99^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	38	19	50.0%	89^th
1888 Mar-May	105	23	21.9%	28^th
1888 Jun-Aug	47	19	40.4%	41^st
1888 Sep-Oct	16	12	75.0%	58^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	81	71.7%	91^st

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