Voting Record
From Dec 1829 to Mar 1831, Cowles missed 33 of 273 roll call votes, which is 12.1%. This is on par with the median of 14.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1831. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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