Cowan was a senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican. He served from 1861 to 1867.
![Photo of Sen. Edgar Cowan [R-PA, 1861-1867]](/static/legislator-photos/402937-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1861 to Mar 1867, Cowan missed 542 of 1,899 roll call votes, which is 28.5%. This is worse than the median of 23.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1867. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
