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Laurence Curtis

[Congressional biography]

Born: September 3, 1893 in Boston, MA
Died: July 11, 1989 in Boston, MA

Education:

  • Harvard University, 1916, Law School, 1922

Military Service:

  • U.S. Navy, World War I (lost a leg in a training crash
  • awarded Silver Star citation for war services)

Career:

  • Lawyer
  • Secretary to Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1921-1922
  • Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston, 1923-1925

Elected Office:

  • Boston city council, 1930-1933
  • MA House, 1933-1936
  • MA Senate, 1936-1941
  • MA Treasurer, 1947-1948


Election Results for Laurence Curtis


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

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1952 58 MA R U.S. House District 10 Primary 1 22,401 62.1%
1952 58 MA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 101,221 54.3%
1954 60 MA R U.S. House District 10 Primary 1 10,519 88.8%
1954 60 MA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 72,502 50.7%
1956 62 MA R U.S. House District 10 Primary 1 19,214 94.5%
1956 62 MA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 93,327 53.0%
1958 64 MA R U.S. House District 10 Primary 1 17,090 100.0%
1958 64 MA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 71,100 52.2%
1960 66 MA R U.S. House District 10 Primary 1 17,136 100.0%
1960 66 MA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 98,257 58.2%
1962 68 MA R U.S. Senate Class 1 Special Primary 2 196,444 44.5%
1968 74 MA R U.S. House District 03 Primary 1 9,446 57.0%
1968 74 MA R U.S. House District 03 General 3 46,860 24.5%
1970 76 MA R U.S. House District 09 Primary 1 2,529 99.9%
1970 76 MA R U.S. House District 09 General 3 17,324 20.4%
1972 78 MA R U.S. House District 04 Primary 4 3,329 16.4%


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



Ideology Data for Laurence Curtis


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
1953 59 House 82 16 R 97 93 40
1954 60 House 73 23 R 82 18 97 33
1955 61 House 65 35 R 78 20 97 50
1956 62 House 69 28 R 65 24 92 71
1957 63 House 63 29 R 68 25 93 89
1958 64 House 70 22 R 74 18 94 42
1959 65 House 55 45 79 19 R 83 13 95 44
1960 66 House 74 11 78 16 R 77 21 95 33
1961 67 House 74 22 66 28 D 54 38 93 10 47
1962 68 House 19 37 28 16 D 38 15 48 60 71
Lifetime conservative rating:   55%


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.