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Roman Hruska

[Congressional biography]

Born: August 16, 1904 in David City, NE
Died: April 25, 1999 in Omaha, NE

Education:

  • Creighton University Law School, 1929

Career:

  • Lawyer
  • University of Omaha regent, 1950-1957

Elected Office:

  • Douglas County commissioner, 1944-1952


Election Results for Roman Hruska


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1952 47 NE R U.S. House District 02 Primary 1 32,263 70.7%
1952 47 NE R U.S. House District 02 General 1 81,185 56.1%
1954 49 NE R U.S. Senate Class 1 Special Primary 1 118,084 99.8%
1954 49 NE R U.S. Senate Class 1 Special 1 250,341 60.9%
1958 53 NE R U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 103,348 100.0%
1958 53 NE R U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 232,227 55.6%
1964 59 NE R U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 130,831 99.6%
1964 59 NE R U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 345,772 61.4%
1970 65 NE R U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 159,057 85.5%
1970 65 NE R U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 240,894 52.5%


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



Ideology Data for Roman Hruska


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 48 House 95 3 R 82 96 20
1954 49 House 87 3 R 68 16 80 11
1954 49 Senate 2 3 R 4 0
1955 50 Senate 81 19 R 65 25 91 10
1956 51 Senate 80 17 R 68 32 98 7
1957 52 Senate 87 5 R 63 26 86 33
1958 53 Senate 77 5 R 70 15 84 8
1959 54 Senate 82 5 82 9 R 75 17 90 0
1960 55 Senate 83 7 66 12 R 59 19 79 0
1961 56 Senate 85 3 80 3 D 21 59 84 0 93
1962 57 Senate 91 3 82 2 D 30 53 86 0 94
1963 58 Senate 84 0 80 0 D 16 56 77 6 100
1964 59 Senate 82 2 78 8 D 32 48 85 16 94
1965 60 Senate 84 3 77 5 D 28 58 86 0 93
1966 61 Senate 90 0 85 3 D 34 49 86 0 97
1967 62 Senate 91 0 81 7 D 43 44 84 0 100
1968 63 Senate 76 4 63 13 D 35 46 74 14 88
1969 64 Senate 94 0 90 7 R 76 19 94 6 73
1970 65 Senate 91 2 88 5 R 70 18 87 0 100
1971 66 Senate 90 1 79 7 R 79 12 85 0 100
1972 67 Senate 97 1 89 5 R 91 7 94 5 100
1973 68 Senate 91 0 93 2 R 75 19 93 0 88
1974 69 Senate 93 4 90 5 R 72 23 95 0* 94
1975 70 Senate 93 0 90 2 R 83 9 91 6 97
1976 71 Senate 81 2 80 3 R 77 6 80 6 83
Lifetime conservative rating:   93%


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.