Rep. Cassius Dowell
Former Representative for Iowa’s 6th District
Dowell was the representative for Iowa’s 6th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1937 to 1940.
He was previously the representative for Iowa’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1933 to 1934; the representative for Iowa’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1931 to 1933; the representative for Iowa’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1927 to 1931; the representative for Iowa’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1925 to 1927; the representative for Iowa’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1923 to 1925; and the representative for Iowa’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1915 to 1923.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1915 to Jan 1940, Dowell missed 147 of 2,118 roll call votes, which is 6.9%. This is on par with the median of 7.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1940. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- 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
