Flower was the representative for New York’s 12th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1891 to 1893.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1889 to 1891; and the representative for New York’s 11th congressional district as a Democrat from 1881 to 1883.
![Photo of Rep. Roswell Flower [D-NY12, 1891-1893]](/static/legislator-photos/404172-200px.jpeg)
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
