Richard Bowie, former Representative from Maryland's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1851-1853	Representative	Maryland's 1^st District
1849-1851	Representative	Maryland's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1849 to Mar 1853, Bowie missed 412 of 1,021 roll call votes, which is 40.4%. This is worse than the median of 26.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1853. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	62	57.4%	97^th
1850 Mar-May	68	32	47.1%	82^nd
1850 Jun-Aug	146	68	46.6%	93^rd
1850 Sep-Sep	117	31	26.5%	75^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	43	32.3%	80^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	95	50	52.6%	92^nd
1852 Apr-Jul	178	90	50.6%	84^th
1852 Aug-Aug	63	12	19.0%	31^st
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	113	24	21.2%	30^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