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Samuel Friedel

[Congressional biography]

Born: April 18, 1898 in Washington, DC
Died: May 21, 1979 in Towson, MD

Career:

  • Store clerk, 1919-1923
  • Founder/president of Industrial Loan Co., 1926-1956

Elected Office:

  • MD House, 1935-1939
  • Baltimore city council, 1939-1952


Election Results for Samuel Friedel


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1952 54 MD D U.S. House District 07 Primary 1 15,423 35.8%
1952 54 MD D U.S. House District 07 General 1 63,652 51.4%
1954 56 MD D U.S. House District 07 Primary 1 26,544 68.2%
1954 56 MD D U.S. House District 07 General 1 49,221 54.5%
1956 58 MD D U.S. House District 07 General 1 70,512 59.0%
1958 60 MD D U.S. House District 07 General 1 72,692 73.5%
1960 62 MD D U.S. House District 07 Primary 1 32,666 56.5%
1960 62 MD D U.S. House District 07 General 1 81,474 64.5%
1962 64 MD D U.S. House District 07 General 1 57,958 70.0%
1964 66 MD D U.S. House District 07 Primary 1 46,134 88.9%
1964 66 MD D U.S. House District 07 General 1 99,654 79.5%
1966 68 MD D U.S. House District 07 Primary 1 29,861 59.0%
1966 68 MD D U.S. House District 07 General 1 61,959 76.0%
1968 70 MD D U.S. House District 07 Primary 1 20,782 49.3%
1968 70 MD D U.S. House District 07 General 1 81,048 79.6%
1970 72 MD D U.S. House District 07 Primary 2 24,227 35.2%


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



Ideology Data for Samuel Friedel


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
1953 55 House 66 34 R 59 96 82
1954 56 House 97 3 R 55 37 95 78
1955 57 House 90 3 R 61 34 95 100
1956 58 House 63 31 R 65 32 96 100
1957 59 House 80 14 R 63 33 93 78
1958 60 House 38 5 R 52 12 60 92
1959 61 House 18 82 92 6 R 50 48 97 100
1960 62 House 11 84 76 22 R 58 40 96 100
1961 63 House 4 96 98 2 D 95 3 98 100 0
1962 64 House 0 94 91 0 D 95 3 90 100 0
1963 65 House 20 67 91 3 D 93 3 92 83 0
1964 66 House 0 100 92 0 D 98 2 93 92 0
1965 67 House 6 84 88 2 D 86 4 89 79 25
1966 68 House 5 86 90 1 D 82 6 89 82 7
1967 69 House 9 80 94 1 D 89 6 91 100 8
1968 70 House 12 86 91 6 D 88 9 94 92 4
1969 71 House 20 78 85 11 R 62 38 97 73 20
1970 72 House 16 73 81 7 R 60 29 85 89 18
Lifetime conservative rating:   8%


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.