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Hiram Fong

[Congressional biography]

Born: October 15, 1906 in Honolulu, HI
Died: August 18, 2004 in Kahaluu, HI (kidney failure)

Education:

  • University of Hawaii, 1930
  • Harvard Law School, 1935

Military Service:

  • U.S. Air Force, 1942-1945 (Judge Advocate)

Career:

  • Lawyer
  • Honolulu city-county attorney, 1935-1938' Banker
  • Insurance businessman

Elected Office:

  • HI Territorial Legislature, 1938-1954 (Speaker for six years)


Election Results for Hiram Fong


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1959 52 HI R U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 87,161 52.9%
1964 57 HI R U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 31,770 95.2%
1964 57 HI R U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 110,747 53.0%
1970 63 HI R U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 124,163 51.6%


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



Ideology Data for Hiram Fong


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
1959 52 Senate 88 12 12 6 R 11 7 17 0
1960 53 Senate 57 35 69 22 R 70 22 98 36
1961 54 Senate 51 46 52 35 D 52 40 90 44 55
1962 55 Senate 74 26 79 14 D 50 46 94 25 53
1963 56 Senate 35 65 56 37 D 65 23 89 65 31
1964 57 Senate 49 49 63 33 D 53 39 95 58 47
1965 58 Senate 64 26 56 34 D 52 33 86 56 46
1966 59 Senate 39 47 39 37 D 57 26 80 55 65
1967 60 Senate 43 39 45 36 D 61 26 85 36 45
1968 61 Senate 56 34 54 37 D 72 22 90 50 43
1969 62 Senate 59 35 54 43 R 65 21 91 38 50
1970 63 Senate 44 24 40 25 R 55 24 75 45 63
1971 64 Senate 83 8 71 20 R 72 11 90 19 67
1972 65 Senate 76 15 74 16 R 70 13 88 11 64
1973 66 Senate 79 13 68 17 R 61 26 84 16 68
1974 67 Senate 58 25 59 24 R 68 23 80 44 54
1975 68 Senate 66 21 65 19 R 72 8 86 22* 50
1976 69 Senate 61 17 52 23 R 58 12 79 31 50
Lifetime conservative rating:   54%


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.