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Wayne Aspinall

[Congressional biography]

Born: April 3, 1896 in Middleburg, CO
Died: October 9, 1983 in Palisade, CO

Education:

  • University of Denver, 1919, LL.B., 1925

Military Service:

  • Air Service, Signal Corps during World War I
  • During the Second World War was commissioned a captain in Military Government in 1943, serving overseas as a legal expert with the American and English forces
  • Participated in the Normandy drive with the English Second Army
  • Discharged on December 14, 1944

Career:

  • School teacher, 1919-1921, 1925-1933
  • Lawyer

Elected Office:

  • Mount Lincoln school board, 1920-1922
  • CO House, 1931-1934, 1937-1938 (Speaker, 1937-1938)
  • CO Senate, 1939-1948


Election Results for Wayne Aspinall


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1948 52 CO D U.S. House District 04 Primary 1 10,848 100.0%
1948 52 CO D U.S. House District 04 General 1 34,695 51.9%
1950 54 CO D U.S. House District 04 Primary 1 8,616 100.0%
1950 54 CO D U.S. House District 04 General 1 35,797 57.3%
1952 56 CO D U.S. House District 04 Primary 1 12,203 100.0%
1952 56 CO D U.S. House District 04 General 1 39,676 50.0%
1954 58 CO D U.S. House District 04 Primary 1 13,072 100.0%
1954 58 CO D U.S. House District 04 General 1 34,294 53.5%
1956 60 CO D U.S. House District 04 Primary 1 13,112 100.0%
1956 60 CO D U.S. House District 04 General 1 48,489 61.8%
1958 62 CO D U.S. House District 04 Primary 1 10,637 100.0%
1958 62 CO D U.S. House District 04 General 1 43,785 63.6%
1960 64 CO D U.S. House District 04 Primary 1 11,297 100.0%
1960 64 CO D U.S. House District 04 General 1 58,731 68.5%
1962 66 CO D U.S. House District 04 Primary 1 11,137 100.0%
1962 66 CO D U.S. House District 04 General 1 42,462 58.6%
1964 68 CO D U.S. House District 04 Primary 1 19,008 100.0%
1964 68 CO D U.S. House District 04 General 1 106,685 63.0%
1966 70 CO D U.S. House District 04 Primary 1 18,706 100.0%
1966 70 CO D U.S. House District 04 General 1 84,107 58.6%
1968 72 CO D U.S. House District 04 Primary 1 20,984 100.0%
1968 72 CO D U.S. House District 04 General 1 92,680 54.7%
1970 74 CO D U.S. House District 04 Primary 1 19,224 71.8%
1970 74 CO D U.S. House District 04 General 1 76,244 55.1%
1972 76 CO D U.S. House District 04 Primary 2 14,893 47.2%


Age: Age as of July 1 of the year pertaining to this election.



Ideology Data for Wayne Aspinall


Click on the number in the 'Conserv.' column to see all of the key votes for that year.

YearAgeBodyConservative
Coalition		Party UnityPresidential
Support		Vote %LiberalConserv.
P
1949 53 House 89 9 D 98 100
1950 54 House 96 4 D 97 87
1951 55 House 94 6 D 100 85
1952 56 House 75 11 D 75 100
1953 57 House 76 24 R 59 97 91
1954 58 House 73 27 R 61 39 100 89
1955 59 House 81 19 R 61 39 100 80
1956 60 House 91 9 R 68 32 100 100
1957 61 House 59 12 R 45 27 80 78
1958 62 House 95 5 R 76 22 99 92
1959 63 House 45 45 92 2 R 43 50 93 89
1960 64 House 11 89 90 8 R 53 44 98 89
1961 65 House 22 61 88 3 D 85 6 93 80 7
1962 66 House 6 69 84 0 D 80 2 75 75 8
1963 67 House 33 60 86 5 D 86 6 89 75 20
1964 68 House 33 67 79 6 D 88 4 88 85 13
1965 69 House 22 51 70 7 D 74 6 79 56 29
1966 70 House 8 32 53 4 D 53 7 61 73 12
1967 71 House 28 43 62 7 D 65 6 69 64 30
1968 72 House 37 41 55 20 D 65 16 77 33 22
1969 73 House 53 33 53 31 R 64 19 86 14 46
1970 74 House 23 20 38 11 R 35 28 50 27 33
1971 75 House 70 18 47 40 R 70 21 89 19 50
1972 76 House 60 24 52 36 R 46 41 85 15 63
Lifetime conservative rating:   26%


Age: Age as of July 1 of the year pertaining to this row.


Conservative Coalition: According to the publication "Congressional Quarterly" (CQ), this is an alliance of Republicans and Southern Democrats (from back when Southern Democrats tended to be conservative or at least moderate) against Northern Democrats in Congress.

This concept had significant meaning perhaps through the 1980's. These statistics stopped being computed after 2000 because conservative Democrats no longer existed except in very rare cases. The number under the green check is the percentage of time this Representative or Senator voted with the coalition; the number under the red X is the percentage of the time he opposed the coalition. The numbers often do not add to 100% because of instances where no vote was cast.


Party Unity: According to CQ, a Party Unity vote in Congress is one in which the parties were split, with a majority of Democrats opposing a majority of Republicans.

The number under the green check is the percentage of time this Representative or Senator voted with his party; the number under the red X is the percentage of the time he opposed the party. The numbers often do not add to 100% because of instances where no vote was cast.


Presidential Support: These are votes for which the President has stated his position, either in via a message to Congress, by press conference remarks or other public statements and documents.

The number under the green check is the percentage of time this Representative or Senator voted with the President; the number under the red X is the percentage of the time he opposed the President. The numbers often do not add to 100% because of instances where no vote was cast. The "P" column indicates the party of the President in each year.


Vote %: The percentage of roll-call votes in which this Representaive or Senator participated by voting "Yes" or "No" (as opposed to "Present" or not voting at all.)


Liberal Rating: These ratings are based on key votes as identifed by the ultra-liberal advocacy organization called "Americans for Democratic Action" (ADA). They have been rating members of Congress since 1947. The number shown is the percentage of the time this Representative or Senator took the liberal position on a key issue. The methodology behind the calculation can be found here. Ratings followed by an asterisk were calculated the "ADA way" due to missing data regarding key votes in the ADA source material.


Conservative Rating: These ratings are based on key votes as identifed by the conservative advocacy organization called the "American Conservative Union" (ACU). They have been rating members of Congress since 1971. The number shown is the percentage of the time this Representative or Senator took the conservative position on a key issue.

The liberal and conservative ratings are not expected to add to 100% because the two groups use different sets of key votes to determine their ratings. Conservative ratings from 1961 through 1970 (and for 2024) were calculated based on key votes as selected by the creators of this website.