Rep. Horace Towner
Former Representative for Iowa’s 8th District
Towner was the representative for Iowa’s 8th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1923 to 1925.
He was previously the representative for Iowa’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from Dec 6, 1915 to Mar 3, 1923; and the representative for Iowa’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from 1911 to Mar 3, 1915.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Apr 1911 to Mar 1923, Towner missed 308 of 1,666 roll call votes, which is 18.5%. This is better than the median of 27.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1923. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo