William Bowers, former Representative from California's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1897	Representative	California's 7^th District
1893-1895	Representative	California's 7^th District
1891-1893	Representative	California's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Jan 1892 to Mar 1897, Bowers missed 383 of 826 roll call votes, which is 46.4%. This is worse than the median of 36.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1897. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	56	20	35.7%	53^rd
1892 Apr-Jul	158	71	44.9%	56^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	79	23	29.1%	42^nd
1893 Aug-Nov	66	38	57.6%	75^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	71	53.4%	42^nd
1894 Apr-Jul	101	51	50.5%	54^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	9	45.0%	57^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	9	18.8%	39^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	18	3	16.7%	41^st
1896 Mar-May	54	39	72.2%	92^nd
1896 Jun-Jun	27	27	100.0%	91^st
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	22	35.5%	43^rd

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