Rivers was the representative for South Carolina’s 1st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1941 to 1970.
![Photo of Rep. Lucius Rivers [D-SC1, 1941-1970]](/data/photos/409254-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1941 to Dec 1970, Rivers missed 434 of 3,604 roll call votes, which is 12.0%. This is worse than the median of 8.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1970. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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