Rowbottom was the representative for Indiana’s 1st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1927 to 1931.
He was previously the representative for Indiana’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1925 to 1927.
Misconduct
Rowbottom faced an allegation of accepting bribes for appointments to the U.S. Post Office. In 1930, he was an unsuccessful candidate for election. On Apr. 16, 1931, he was convicted.
| 1930 | Unsuccessful candidate for election. |
| Apr. 16, 1931 | Convicted. |
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1925 to Mar 1931, Rowbottom missed 69 of 289 roll call votes, which is 23.9%. This is worse than the median of 17.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1931. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
