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Marvin Esch

[Congressional biography]

Born: August 4, 1927 in Flinton, PA
Died: June 19, 2010 in Ann Arbor, MI

Education:

  • University of Michigan, A.B., 1950, M.A., 1951, Ph.D., 1957

Military Service:

  • U.S. Army

Career:

  • Professor, Wayne State University
  • Director of Public Affairs, U.S. Steel, 1977-1980
  • American Enterprise Institute, 1981-1987
  • Private advocate

Elected Office:

  • MI House, 1965-1966


Election Results for Marvin Esch


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

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1966 38 MI R U.S. House District 02 Primary 1 14,447 53.0%
1966 38 MI R U.S. House District 02 General 1 65,205 50.7%
1968 40 MI R U.S. House District 02 Primary 1 23,384 100.0%
1968 40 MI R U.S. House District 02 General 1 90,804 54.3%
1970 42 MI R U.S. House District 02 Primary 1 27,271 100.0%
1970 42 MI R U.S. House District 02 General 1 88,071 62.5%
1972 44 MI R U.S. House District 02 Primary 1 20,034 100.0%
1972 44 MI R U.S. House District 02 General 1 103,321 56.0%
1974 46 MI R U.S. House District 02 Primary 1 11,322 100.0%
1974 46 MI R U.S. House District 02 General 1 72,245 52.3%
1976 48 MI R U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 209,250 44.2%
1976 48 MI R U.S. Senate Class 1 General 2 1,635,087 46.8%


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



Ideology Data for Marvin Esch


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
1967 39 House 63 35 66 29 D 56 35 94 27 50
1968 40 House 41 47 45 40 D 68 19 85 58 32
1969 41 House 31 49 40 38 R 68 28 83 57 29
1970 42 House 36 45 49 29 R 65 14 75 73 44
1971 43 House 30 51 45 37 R 51 35 78 63 28
1972 44 House 38 37 34 36 R 49 22 74 60 22
1973 45 House 50 41 48 40 R 56 31 89 60 46
1974 46 House 33 50 33 53 R 58 26 86 57 25
1975 47 House 58 24 54 26 R 57 28 72 32 67
1976 48 House 27 8 20 11 R 16 12 30 20 64
Lifetime conservative rating:   43%


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.