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John Hunt

[Congressional biography]

Born: November 25, 1908 in Lambertville, NJ
Died: September 22, 1989 in Woodbury, NJ

Education:

  • Attended Newark Business School

Military Service:

  • U.S. Army, 1942-1946 (warded Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Purple Heart, and Presidential Unit Citation with oak leaf cluster)
  • U.S. Army Reserve, 1946-1963

Career:

  • NJ State Police criminology consultant, 1930-1959
  • Gloucester County sheriff, 1959-1963

Elected Office:

  • NJ Senate, 1963-1966


Election Results for John Hunt


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

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1966 57 NJ R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 13,713 100.0%
1966 57 NJ R U.S. House District 01 General 1 68,248 51.3%
1968 59 NJ R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 16,941 100.0%
1968 59 NJ R U.S. House District 01 General 1 105,856 58.0%
1970 61 NJ R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 12,864 100.0%
1970 61 NJ R U.S. House District 01 General 1 83,726 61.2%
1972 63 NJ R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 13,370 100.0%
1972 63 NJ R U.S. House District 01 General 1 97,650 52.5%
1974 65 NJ R U.S. House District 01 Primary 1 9,317 100.0%
1974 65 NJ R U.S. House District 01 General 2 54,069 38.5%


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



Ideology Data for John Hunt


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
1967 58 House 93 6 87 8 D 45 50 96 13 92
1968 59 House 86 2 89 4 D 54 45 95 0 91
1969 60 House 89 7 85 11 R 57 36 93 7 87
1970 61 House 80 9 74 18 R 65 26 91 6 69
1971 62 House 86 5 75 15 R 72 19 93 6 100
1972 63 House 84 9 80 12 R 68 22 88 0 56
1973 64 House 71 10 73 13 R 62 22 85 5 80
1974 65 House 82 13 76 17 R 62 33 93 4* 62
Lifetime conservative rating:   81%


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.