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Jacob Javits

[Congressional biography]

Born: May 18, 1904 in New York City, NY
Died: March 7, 1986 in West Palm Beach, FL

Education:

  • New York University Law School, 1926

Military Service:

  • Chemical Warfare Service, 1941-1945

Elected Office:

  • NY Attorney General, 1954-1957


Election Results for Jacob Javits


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1946 42 NY R U.S. House District 21 General 1 46,897 46.0%
1948 44 NY R U.S. House District 21 General 1 66,527 50.7%
1950 46 NY R U.S. House District 21 General 1 62,604 61.8%
1952 48 NY R U.S. House District 21 General 1 89,866 63.4%
1956 52 NY R U.S. Senate Class 3 General 1 3,723,933 53.3%
1962 58 NY R U.S. Senate Class 3 General 1 3,272,417 57.4%
1968 64 NY R U.S. Senate Class 3 General 1 3,269,772 49.7%
1974 70 NY R U.S. Senate Class 3 General 1 2,340,188 45.3%
1980 76 NY R U.S. Senate Class 3 Primary 2 257,433 44.3%
1980 76 NY Liberal U.S. Senate Class 3 General 3 664,544 11.0%


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



Ideology Data for Jacob Javits


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
1947 43 House 55 26 D 80 64
1948 44 House 47 36 D 78 92
1949 45 House 20 58 D 80 92
1950 46 House 23 60 D 84 100
1951 47 House 15 75 D 78 100
1952 48 House 9 80 D 86 100
1953 49 House 39 58 R 77 89 100
1954 50 House 40 57 R 66 34 99 89
1957 53 Senate 65 22 R 84 12 93 82
1958 54 Senate 32 49 R 60 21 84 83
1959 55 Senate 35 60 53 41 R 69 26 93 69
1960 56 Senate 26 72 51 38 R 69 27 89 75
1961 57 Senate 11 80 29 67 D 69 27 94 100 14
1962 58 Senate 21 59 41 37 D 62 21 82 73 19
1963 59 Senate 9 86 40 50 D 75 14 86 94 7
1964 60 Senate 12 80 39 55 D 69 25 92 89 25
1965 61 Senate 11 79 27 64 D 75 17 91 94 0
1966 62 Senate 11 81 19 64 D 75 15 87 90 14
1967 63 Senate 9 75 27 51 D 58 18 75 77 29
1968 64 Senate 16 49 19 48 D 58 9 64 92 17
1969 65 Senate 23 71 38 54 R 63 33 90 100 27
1970 66 Senate 12 61 19 56 R 44 32 78 94 11
1971 67 Senate 25 57 32 51 R 48 30 81 70 10
1972 68 Senate 20 74 24 69 R 43 54 89 89 0
1973 69 Senate 20 59 22 60 R 38 39 83 74 14
1974 70 Senate 7 72 15 66 R 39 46 83 81* 0
1975 71 Senate 10 78 21 70 R 45 52 91 81 9
1976 72 Senate 32 60 23 69 R 42 47 90 89 0
1977 73 Senate 19 72 22 70 D 68 24 89 89 0
1978 74 Senate 11 84 11 84 D 86 9 92 75 4
1979 75 Senate 18 76 19 76 D 82 12 94 63 6
1980 76 Senate 15 68 23 56 D 53 26 74 73 0
Lifetime conservative rating:   9%


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.