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Clarence Kilburn

[Congressional biography]

Born: April 13, 1893 in Malone, NY
Died: May 20, 1975 in Malone, NY

Education:

  • Cornell University, 1916

Military Service:

  • U.S. Army, 1917-1918

Career:

  • Banker


Election Results for Clarence Kilburn


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1940 47 NY R U.S. House District 31 Special 1 16,306 70.3%
1940 47 NY R U.S. House District 31 General 1 58,727 62.5%
1942 49 NY R U.S. House District 31 General 1 43,197 69.0%
1944 51 NY R U.S. House District 34 General 1 75,532 62.9%
1946 53 NY R U.S. House District 34 General 1 64,217 73.0%
1948 55 NY R U.S. House District 34 General 1 70,715 60.7%
1950 57 NY R U.S. House District 34 General 1 67,739 66.4%
1952 59 NY R U.S. House District 33 General 1 98,653 69.0%
1954 61 NY R U.S. House District 33 General 1 70,708 68.1%
1956 63 NY R U.S. House District 33 General 1 103,419 72.7%
1958 65 NY R U.S. House District 33 General 1 73,698 64.8%
1960 67 NY R U.S. House District 33 General 1 91,710 61.9%
1962 69 NY R U.S. House District 31 General 1 66,283 60.0%


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



Ideology Data for Clarence Kilburn


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
1940 47 House 70 11 D 63
1941 48 House 54 30 D 63
1942 49 House 70 5 D 49
1943 50 House 69 4 D 58
1944 51 House 67 23 D 60
1945 52 House 58 14 D 56
1946 53 House 67 11 D 67
1947 54 House 76 3 D 74 20
1948 55 House 83 3 D 85 18
1949 56 House 65 15 D 73 8
1950 57 House 77 21 D 91 14
1951 58 House 81 10 D 75 0
1952 59 House 70 16 D 74 0
1953 60 House 76 18 R 80 90 9
1954 61 House 73 3 R 61 13 64 25
1955 62 House 52 13 R 68 7 72 29
1956 63 House 66 16 R 62 24 84 29
1957 64 House 58 7 R 32 33 53 29
1958 65 House 43 3 R 34 22 57 20
1959 66 House 55 0 69 2 R 56 11 67 13
1960 67 House 16 0 31 2 R 44 12 42 11
1961 68 House 35 0 43 2 D 9 37 39 11 100
1962 69 House 44 12 47 5 D 13 43 45 14 73
1963 70 House 53 7 53 9 D 14 45 54 0 100
1964 71 House 67 17 66 5 D 13 60 64 8 93
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.