Boyce was the representative for South Carolina’s 6th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1859 to 1861.
He was previously the representative for South Carolina’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1857 to 1859; the representative for South Carolina’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1855 to 1857; and the representative for South Carolina’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1853 to 1855.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1853 to Dec 1860, Boyce missed 681 of 2,199 roll call votes, which is 31.0%. This is worse than the median of 24.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1860. 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
