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Florence Dwyer

[Congressional biography]

Born: July 4, 1902 in Reading, PA
Died: February 29, 1976 in Elizabeth, NJ

Education:

  • Attended Rutgers Law School

Career:

  • State legislation chairman, NJ Business and Professional Women
  • U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1959-1973

Elected Office:

  • NJ Assembly, 1950-1956


Election Results for Florence Dwyer


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

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1956 53 NJ R U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 26,323 67.2%
1956 53 NJ R U.S. House District 06 General 1 106,414 50.6%
1958 55 NJ R U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 35,174 100.0%
1958 55 NJ R U.S. House District 06 General 1 88,084 51.1%
1960 57 NJ R U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 34,573 100.0%
1960 57 NJ R U.S. House District 06 General 1 136,723 57.7%
1962 59 NJ R U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 23,178 100.0%
1962 59 NJ R U.S. House District 06 General 1 110,143 59.6%
1964 61 NJ R U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 24,059 100.0%
1964 61 NJ R U.S. House District 06 General 1 140,999 59.7%
1966 63 NJ R U.S. House District 12 Primary 1 19,650 94.4%
1966 63 NJ R U.S. House District 12 General 1 116,701 73.9%
1968 65 NJ R U.S. House District 12 Primary 1 31,679 100.0%
1968 65 NJ R U.S. House District 12 General 1 146,264 71.6%
1970 67 NJ R U.S. House District 12 Primary 1 21,017 100.0%
1970 67 NJ R U.S. House District 12 General 1 109,537 66.2%


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



Ideology Data for Florence Dwyer


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
1957 54 House 69 31 R 85 15 100 78
1958 55 House 46 54 R 86 10 97 75
1959 56 House 45 55 71 29 R 81 19 100 67
1960 57 House 21 79 49 51 R 77 23 99 56
1961 58 House 48 52 60 38 D 63 35 97 50 27
1962 59 House 25 75 51 44 D 72 27 95 88 27
1963 60 House 40 27 48 38 D 54 38 87 45 73
1964 61 House 25 75 45 55 D 71 25 94 69 31
1965 62 House 31 65 42 51 D 67 24 89 58 47
1966 63 House 49 46 55 30 D 50 36 85 29 60
1967 64 House 52 37 56 34 D 57 34 84 47 54
1968 65 House 29 53 38 43 D 68 18 82 60 43
1969 66 House 40 40 40 33 R 66 21 78 50 36
1970 67 House 23 43 33 43 R 63 20 74 63 17
1971 68 House 37 43 36 38 R 53 32 76 55 20
1972 69 House 15 11 12 11 R 27 5 29 75 0
Lifetime conservative rating:   39%


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.