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Charles Buckley

[Congressional biography]

Born: June 23, 1890 in New York City, NY
Died: January 22, 1967 in New York City, NY

Career:

  • Building contractor
  • NY tax appraiser, 1923-1929
  • Chamberlain of New York City, 1929-1933

Elected Office:

  • New York City alderman, 1918-1923


Election Results for Charles Buckley


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1936 46 NY D U.S. House District 23 General 1 202,730 74.3%
1938 48 NY D U.S. House District 23 General 1 120,474 50.8%
1940 50 NY D U.S. House District 23 General 1 190,936 56.5%
1942 52 NY D U.S. House District 23 General 1 142,395 74.0%
1944 54 NY D U.S. House District 25 General 1 114,248 62.1%
1946 56 NY D U.S. House District 25 General 1 47,142 32.5%
1948 58 NY D,R U.S. House District 25 General 1 138,706 82.2%
1950 60 NY D U.S. House District 25 General 1 64,353 46.8%
1952 62 NY D U.S. House District 24 General 1 82,343 46.5%
1954 64 NY D U.S. House District 24 General 1 69,552 57.6%
1956 66 NY D U.S. House District 24 General 1 90,076 54.7%
1958 68 NY D U.S. House District 24 General 1 71,616 56.2%
1960 70 NY D U.S. House District 24 General 1 89,140 56.6%
1962 72 NY D U.S. House District 23 Primary 1 20,280 53.9%
1962 72 NY D U.S. House District 23 General 1 69,836 54.4%
1964 74 NY D U.S. House District 23 Primary 2 22,452 46.1%


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



Ideology Data for Charles Buckley


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
1937 47 House 32 2 D 13
1938 48 House 36 5 D 43
1939 49 House 48 0 D 31
1940 50 House 50 4 D 35
1941 51 House 63 0 D 50
1942 52 House 25 0 D 35
1943 53 House 52 6 D 44
1944 54 House 87 0 D 43
1945 55 House 56 0 D 51
1946 56 House 52 3 D 37
1947 57 House 61 5 D 38 100
1948 58 House 67 6 D 44 90
1949 59 House 45 3 D 44 88
1950 60 House 55 7 D 45 100
1951 61 House 79 3 D 55 100
1952 62 House 68 7 D 36 100
1953 63 House 50 11 R 22 23 100
1954 64 House 63 0 R 5 21 17 100
1955 65 House 48 0 R 37 22 55 100
1956 66 House 47 6 R 32 29 51 100
1957 67 House 44 3 R 27 15 35 89
1958 68 House 5 0 R 2 0 4 100
1959 69 House 0 64 56 0 R 22 33 48 100
1960 70 House 5 0 8 2 R 14 2 17 100
1961 71 House 0 26 22 0 D 28 2 21 100 0
1962 72 House 0 56 65 0 D 68 2 56 100 0
1963 73 House 0 40 46 0 D 45 0 34 100 0
1964 74 House 0 33 35 0 D 46 0 24 100 0
Lifetime conservative rating:   0%


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.