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Thomas Dodd

[Congressional biography]

Born: May 15, 1907 in Norwich, CT
Died: May 24, 1971 in Old Lyme, CT

Education:

  • Providence College, 1930
  • Yale University Law School, 1933

Career:

  • Lawyer
  • FBI special agent, 1933-1934
  • National Youth Administration, 1935-1938
  • Assistant to U.S. Attorney General, 1938-1945
  • U.S. Counsel's Office at Nuremburg, 1945-1946

Other notes:

  • Father of Christopher Dodd
  • Censured by the Senate for financial misconduct, 1967


Election Results for Thomas Dodd


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1952 45 CT D U.S. House District 01 General 1 160,080 54.0%
1954 47 CT D U.S. House District 01 General 1 148,935 57.0%
1956 49 CT D U.S. Senate Class 3 General 2 479,460 43.0%
1958 51 CT D U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 554,841 57.3%
1964 57 CT D U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 781,008 64.6%
1970 63 CT Dodd Independent U.S. Senate Class 1 General 3 266,497 24.5%


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



Ideology Data for Thomas Dodd


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 46 House 66 26 R 56 83 80
1954 47 House 73 10 R 34 18 63 100
1955 48 House 52 32 R 61 32 82 67
1956 49 House 56 38 R 65 24 86 100
1959 52 Senate 22 65 66 16 R 39 44 80 83
1960 53 Senate 9 65 74 17 R 35 43 71 100
1961 54 Senate 15 69 63 18 D 61 22 80 80 42
1962 55 Senate 26 56 53 18 D 65 19 81 50 40
1963 56 Senate 16 65 73 18 D 63 16 80 82 27
1964 57 Senate 14 86 71 22 D 65 23 92 84 20
1965 58 Senate 8 52 50 15 D 59 12 72 94 8
1966 59 Senate 7 56 50 7 D 57 11 62 83 16
1967 60 Senate 9 40 39 8 D 39 10 49 78 33
1968 61 Senate 36 54 71 17 D 70 19 87 58 28
1969 62 Senate 41 55 64 30 R 60 38 95 59 29
1970 63 Senate 14 7 17 12 R 25 11 27 27 47
Lifetime conservative rating:   28%


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.