Lowndes was the representative for South Carolina’s 2nd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1821 to 1823.
He was previously the representative for South Carolina’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1819 to 1821; the representative for South Carolina’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1817 to 1819; the representative for South Carolina’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1815 to 1817; the representative for South Carolina’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1813 to 1815; and the representative for South Carolina’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1811 to 1813.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Nov 1811 to May 1822, Lowndes missed 185 of 1,103 roll call votes, which is 16.8%. This is on par with the median of 13.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 1822. 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
