Ashmore was the representative for South Carolina’s 4th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1953 to 1968.
![Photo of Rep. Robert Ashmore [D-SC4, 1953-1968]](/static/legislator-photos/400962-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jun 1953 to Oct 1968, Ashmore missed 104 of 1,981 roll call votes, which is 5.2%. This is on par with the median of 5.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1968. 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
