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Robert Barry

[Congressional biography]

Born: May 15, 1915 in Omaha, NE
Died: June 14, 1988 in Redwood City, CA

Education:

  • Attended Hamilton College, 1933-1936

Career:

  • Investment/commercial banker, 1937-1939
  • Aviation/manufacturing executive, 1940-1950
  • Served in the office of U.S. Naval Undersecretary during WW II
  • Staff, Republican presidential candidates Wendell Wilkie and Thomas Dewey
  • Staff, of Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon


Election Results for Robert Barry


Click on the Year to see the results of that election.

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1958 43 NY R U.S. House District 27 Primary 1 9,173 55.4%
1958 43 NY R U.S. House District 27 General 1 104,240 58.2%
1960 45 NY R U.S. House District 27 Primary 1 9,975 91.6%
1960 45 NY R U.S. House District 27 General 1 121,533 56.3%
1962 47 NY R U.S. House District 25 General 1 109,989 61.5%
1964 49 NY R U.S. House District 25 General 2 95,214 43.8%
1966 51 CA R U.S. House District 38 Primary 1 21,995 44.0%
1966 51 CA R U.S. House District 38 General 2 69,444 45.5%
1967 52 CA R U.S. House District 11 Special Open Primary 11 471 0.3%
1968 53 CA R U.S. House District 11 Primary 2 31,602 47.0%
1970 55 CA R U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 3 30,558 1.5%
1972 57 CA R U.S. House District 17 Primary 2 20,548 31.5%


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



Ideology Data for Robert Barry


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
1959 44 House 91 9 85 6 R 81 7 90 22
1960 45 House 84 0 69 18 R 74 14 90 22
1961 46 House 74 22 72 22 D 52 43 96 10 46
1962 47 House 50 44 56 32 D 62 33 85 63 43
1963 48 House 53 40 67 24 D 41 51 89 27 73
1964 49 House 58 42 48 31 D 54 31 79 31 50
Lifetime conservative rating:   53%


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.