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Henry Dworshak

[Congressional biography]

Born: August 29, 1894 in Duluth, MN
Died: July 23, 1962 in Washington, DC

Military Service:

  • Fourth Antiaircraft Machine Gun Battalion, 1918-1919

Career:

  • Printer, 1909-1918
  • Manager of printer supply business, 1920-1924
  • Editor/publisher of Burley Bulletin, 1924-1944

Elected Office:

  • Appointed to the U.S. Senate on October 14, 1949 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bert Miller


Election Results for Henry Dworshak


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1936 41 ID R U.S. House District 02 General 2 43,834 39.5%
1938 43 ID R U.S. House District 02 General 1 54,527 53.6%
1940 45 ID R U.S. House District 02 General 1 69,804 53.1%
1942 47 ID R U.S. House District 02 General 1 45,805 54.8%
1944 49 ID R U.S. House District 02 General 1 61,751 52.3%
1946 51 ID R U.S. Senate Class 2 Primary 1 26,953 72.4%
1946 51 ID R U.S. Senate Class 2 Special 1 105,523 58.6%
1948 53 ID R U.S. Senate Class 2 General 2 103,868 48.5%
1950 55 ID R U.S. Senate Class 2 Primary 1 37,298 58.5%
1950 55 ID R U.S. Senate Class 2 Special 1 104,608 51.9%
1954 59 ID R U.S. Senate Class 2 Primary 1 56,333 87.6%
1954 59 ID R U.S. Senate Class 2 General 1 142,269 62.8%
1960 65 ID R U.S. Senate Class 2 General 1 152,648 52.3%


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



Ideology Data for Henry Dworshak


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
1939 44 House 88 10 D 98
1940 45 House 82 9 D 87
1941 46 House 91 9 D 99
1942 47 House 80 20 D 90
1943 48 House 81 19 D 95
1944 49 House 90 7 D 98
1945 50 House 90 8 D 95
1946 51 House 85 0 D 77
1947 52 Senate 95 1 D 96 0
1948 53 Senate 85 9 D 96 7
1949 54 Senate 2 3 D 7 0
1950 55 Senate 80 12 D 93 20
1951 56 Senate 91 8 D 98 0
1952 57 Senate 96 1 D 98 7
1953 58 Senate 79 21 R 61 100 20
1954 59 Senate 87 13 R 77 23 100 8
1955 60 Senate 73 27 R 71 27 99 0
1956 61 Senate 78 16 R 62 32 96 15
1957 62 Senate 79 21 R 68 32 100 25
1958 63 Senate 85 15 R 69 31 100 0
1959 64 Senate 90 0 82 12 R 74 20 95 0
1960 65 Senate 89 7 76 21 R 65 31 92 0
1961 66 Senate 98 2 94 6 D 26 74 100 10 79
1962 67 Senate 52 6 D 14 38 46 0 100
Lifetime conservative rating:   88%


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.