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Charles Raper Jonas

[Congressional biography]

Born: December 9, 1904 in Lincolnton, NC
Died: September 28, 1988 in Lincolnton, NC

Education:

  • University of North Carolina, B.A., 1925, J.D., 1928

Military Service:

  • NC National Guard from 1927
  • U.S. Army, 1940-1946

Career:

  • Lawyer
  • Assistant U.S. Attorney for Western NC, 1931-1933

Other notes:

  • Son of Charles A. Jones


Election Results for Charles Raper Jonas


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1952 47 NC R U.S. House District 10 General 1 82,428 57.4%
1954 49 NC R U.S. House District 10 General 1 51,492 57.5%
1956 51 NC R U.S. House District 10 General 1 89,743 62.7%
1958 53 NC R U.S. House District 10 General 1 56,487 51.9%
1960 55 NC R U.S. House District 10 General 1 97,138 58.6%
1962 57 NC R U.S. House District 08 General 1 64,703 56.0%
1964 59 NC R U.S. House District 08 General 1 85,869 54.3%
1966 61 NC R U.S. House District 08 General 1 56,382 71.5%
1968 63 NC R U.S. House District 09 General 1 94,510 100.0%
1970 65 NC R U.S. House District 09 General 1 57,525 66.6%


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



Ideology Data for Charles Raper Jonas


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 82 18 R 82 100 18
1954 49 House 77 23 R 71 29 99 22
1955 50 House 84 13 R 49 49 95 10
1956 51 House 66 31 R 59 41 97 0
1957 52 House 85 14 R 47 53 99 11
1958 53 House 76 22 R 48 52 99 0
1959 54 House 100 0 92 8 R 72 28 100 0
1960 55 House 95 5 71 29 R 42 58 100 0
1961 56 House 100 0 93 7 D 29 69 99 0 93
1962 57 House 94 0 88 5 D 30 65 93 0 80
1963 58 House 93 7 91 9 D 30 70 99 0 94
1964 59 House 100 0 85 11 D 40 60 97 0 94
1965 60 House 96 2 89 7 D 32 63 96 0 100
1966 61 House 97 0 91 8 D 36 58 95 0 89
1967 62 House 93 0 84 9 D 41 54 93 0 100
1968 63 House 94 2 83 7 D 45 48 89 0 96
1969 64 House 96 2 78 13 R 62 33 90 0 87
1970 65 House 95 0 76 21 R 70 27 94 0 89
1971 66 House 85 5 75 12 R 74 11 87 0 94
1972 67 House 79 4 74 3 R 62 30 81 6 90
Lifetime conservative rating:   92%


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.