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Seymour Halpern

[Congressional biography]

Born: November 19, 1913 in New York City, NY
Died: January 10, 1997 in Southampton, NY

Education:

  • Attended Columbia University, 1932-1934

Career:

  • Newspaper reporter, 1931-1933
  • Insurance businessman
  • Assistant to New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, 1937
  • Assiatnt to New York City council president, 1938-1940

Elected Office:

  • NY Senate, 1941-1954


Election Results for Seymour Halpern


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1954 40 NY R U.S. House District 06 General 2 67,681 45.5%
1958 44 NY R U.S. House District 04 General 1 78,054 52.6%
1960 46 NY R U.S. House District 04 General 1 115,736 55.1%
1962 48 NY R U.S. House District 06 General 1 96,475 63.3%
1964 50 NY R U.S. House District 06 General 1 100,069 57.1%
1966 52 NY R U.S. House District 06 General 1 91,526 59.0%
1968 54 NY R U.S. House District 06 General 1 95,016 57.5%
1970 56 NY R U.S. House District 06 General 1 89,250 77.3%


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



Ideology Data for Seymour Halpern


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 45 House 27 65 56 40 R 76 24 97 78
1960 46 House 11 84 41 57 R 60 33 94 89
1961 47 House 13 70 36 48 D 65 23 85 100 11
1962 48 House 12 81 39 60 D 77 20 93 100 21
1963 49 House 13 80 45 50 D 63 31 94 73 36
1964 50 House 8 92 23 73 D 77 17 91 85 25
1965 51 House 14 80 20 70 D 75 11 86 83 35
1966 52 House 8 81 58 28 D 66 19 80 75 36
1967 53 House 15 74 30 57 D 67 17 81 73 8
1968 54 House 6 76 13 65 D 77 15 83 83 9
1969 55 House 0 80 16 56 R 49 28 71 79 8
1970 56 House 5 61 15 60 R 52 28 70 88 0
1971 57 House 7 56 20 40 R 26 46 57 83 0
1972 58 House 28 48 26 53 R 59 22 72 64 11
Lifetime conservative rating:   18%


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.