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Millicent Fenwick

[Congressional biography]

Born: February 25, 1910 in New York City, NY
Died: September 16, 1992 in Bernardsville, NJ

Education:

  • Attended Columbia University

Career:

  • Editor, 1938-1952
  • U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1958-1974
  • Director of NJ Consumer Affairs, 1973-1974
  • U.S. Ambassador to U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture, 1983-1987

Elected Office:

  • Bernardsville Board of Education, 1938-1947
  • Bernardsville borough council, 1958-1964
  • NJ Assembly, 1970-1973


Election Results for Millicent Fenwick


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1974 64 NJ R U.S. House District 05 Primary 1 12,509 47.8%
1974 64 NJ R U.S. House District 05 General 1 81,498 53.4%
1976 66 NJ R U.S. House District 05 Primary 1 34,123 100.0%
1976 66 NJ R U.S. House District 05 General 1 137,803 66.9%
1978 68 NJ R U.S. House District 05 Primary 1 26,934 100.0%
1978 68 NJ R U.S. House District 05 General 1 100,739 72.6%
1980 70 NJ R U.S. House District 05 Primary 1 23,419 69.9%
1980 70 NJ R U.S. House District 05 General 1 156,016 77.5%
1982 72 NJ R U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 193,683 54.3%
1982 72 NJ R U.S. Senate Class 1 General 2 1,047,626 47.8%


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



Ideology Data for Millicent Fenwick


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
1975 65 House 36 51 51 40 R 65 21 89 58* 31
1976 66 House 34 64 36 58 R 39 55 94 68 17
1977 67 House 29 71 42 58 D 66 33 99 85 24
1978 68 House 37 62 48 51 D 77 21 98 55 29
1979 69 House 38 60 46 50 D 70 26 94 53 34
1980 70 House 43 47 57 36 D 53 42 92 67 37
1981 71 House 47 53 58 40 R 63 37 97 55 67
1982 72 House 42 48 50 40 R 51 44 87 76 41
Lifetime conservative rating:   31%


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.