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Clifford Hope

[Congressional biography]

Born: June 9, 1893 in Birmingham, IA
Died: May 16, 1970 in Garden City, KS

Education:

  • Washburn Law School, 1917

Military Service:

  • U.S. Army, 1917-1919

Career:

  • Lawyer
  • President of Great Plains Wheat, Inc., 1959-1963

Elected Office:

  • KS House, 1921-1927 (Speaker, 1925)


Election Results for Clifford Hope


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

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1936 43 KS R U.S. House District 07 General 1 66,553 56.0%
1938 45 KS R U.S. House District 07 General 1 72,893 65.5%
1940 47 KS R U.S. House District 07 General 1 75,349 63.9%
1942 49 KS R U.S. House District 05 General 1 54,655 66.6%
1944 51 KS R U.S. House District 05 General 1 72,370 69.0%
1946 53 KS R U.S. House District 05 General 1 54,578 62.6%
1948 55 KS R U.S. House District 05 General 1 77,160 65.0%
1950 57 KS R U.S. House District 05 General 1 60,608 61.0%
1952 59 KS R U.S. House District 05 General 1 90,967 70.9%
1954 61 KS R U.S. House District 05 General 1 64,023 64.9%
1958 65 KS R U.S. House District 05 General 2 53,387 46.9%


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



Ideology Data for Clifford Hope


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
1937 44 House 71 24 D 96
1938 45 House 74 26 D 97
1939 46 House 84 14 D 95
1940 47 House 72 17 D 80
1941 48 House 76 17 D 88
1942 49 House 80 15 D 97
1943 50 House 71 23 D 93
1944 51 House 87 10 D 94
1945 52 House 54 24 D 78
1946 53 House 80 11 D 88
1947 54 House 79 18 D 93 18
1948 55 House 89 8 D 86 23
1949 56 House 85 14 D 94 8
1950 57 House 73 21 D 94 7
1951 58 House 75 22 D 94 15
1952 59 House 55 14 D 68 8
1953 60 House 74 18 R 93 83 27
1954 61 House 90 10 R 79 18 95 22
1955 62 House 52 35 R 66 22 84 56
1956 63 House 44 35 R 76 12 82 71


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.