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Daniel Brewster

[Congressional biography]

Born: November 23, 1923 in Baltimore County, MD
Died: August 19, 2007 in Glyndon, MD (liver cancer)

Education:

  • University of Maryland, LL.B., 1949

Military Service:

  • U.S. Marine Corps, 1942-1946

Career:

  • Lawyer

Elected Office:

  • MD House, 1950-1958

Other notes:

  • Indicted in 1969 and was tried and convicted, but the verdict was reversed
  • Pleaded no contest in 1975 to a felony charge of accepting an illegal gratuity while a United States Senator.


Election Results for Daniel Brewster


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

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1958 34 MD D U.S. House District 02 Primary 1 46,953 81.4%
1958 34 MD D U.S. House District 02 General 1 87,667 61.0%
1960 36 MD D U.S. House District 02 General 1 126,452 58.6%
1962 38 MD D U.S. Senate Class 3 Primary 1 182,272 52.2%
1962 38 MD D U.S. Senate Class 3 General 1 439,723 62.0%
1968 44 MD D U.S. Senate Class 3 Primary 1 150,481 67.5%
1968 44 MD D U.S. Senate Class 3 General 2 443,367 39.1%


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



Ideology Data for Daniel Brewster


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 35 House 55 36 75 21 R 56 41 91 67
1960 36 House 11 84 65 20 R 51 35 85 100
1961 37 House 13 78 69 24 D 82 12 91 90 23
1962 38 House 12 63 61 18 D 73 17 81 88 8
1963 39 Senate 21 74 81 11 D 82 8 92 82 0
1964 40 Senate 16 71 69 14 D 68 11 79 83 13
1965 41 Senate 8 72 74 7 D 74 9 83 82 8
1966 42 Senate 10 66 67 12 D 62 18 76 80 12
1967 43 Senate 7 66 67 10 D 58 15 76 91 13
1968 44 Senate 17 49 53 13 D 53 18 66 62 29
Lifetime conservative rating:   14%


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.