Bowersock was the representative for Kansas’s 2nd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1905 to 1907.
He was previously the representative for Kansas’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1903 to 1905; the representative for Kansas’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1901 to 1903; and the representative for Kansas’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1899 to 1901.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1899 to Mar 1907, Bowersock missed 171 of 555 roll call votes, which is 30.8%. This is on par with the median of 30.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1907. 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
