Bowler was the representative for Illinois’s 7th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1953 to 1958.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1953 to Jul 1957, Bowler missed 23 of 348 roll call votes, which is 6.6%. This is much worse than the median of 2.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jul 1957. 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
