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Bob Price

[Congressional biography]

Born: September 7, 1927 in Reading, KS
Died: August 24, 2004 in Pampa, TX

Education:

  • Oklahoma State University, B.S., 1951

Military Service:

  • U.S. Air Force, 1951-1955
  • flew twenty-seven combat missions during the Korean conflict
  • awarded the Air Medal

Career:

  • Rancher

Elected Office:

  • TX Senate, 1978-1980


Election Results for Bob Price


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

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1964 36 TX R U.S. House District 18 Primary 1 8,141 79.9%
1964 36 TX R U.S. House District 18 General 2 48,054 45.0%
1966 38 TX R U.S. House District 18 General 1 45,209 59.5%
1968 40 TX R U.S. House District 18 General 1 81,715 65.2%
1970 42 TX R U.S. House District 18 General 1 52,845 99.9%
1972 44 TX R U.S. House District 13 General 1 87,084 54.8%
1974 46 TX R U.S. House District 13 General 2 39,087 42.4%
1976 48 TX R U.S. House District 13 General 2 69,328 40.4%
1988 60 TX R U.S. House District 13 Primary 2 7,953 19.3%
1988 60 TX R U.S. House District 13 Primary Runoff 2 9,322 43.7%
1990 62 TX R U.S. House District 13 Primary 2 9,324 30.6%
1992 64 TX R U.S. House District 13 Primary 2 4,532 19.7%


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



Ideology Data for Bob Price


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 39 House 98 0 96 2 D 35 65 96 0 100
1968 40 House 96 2 91 7 D 44 54 97 0 95
1969 41 House 91 0 76 11 R 57 38 86 0 80
1970 42 House 73 2 58 14 R 57 28 80 6 93
1971 43 House 92 2 83 12 R 77 14 93 3 100
1972 44 House 84 2 79 7 R 46 35 82 0 88
1973 45 House 86 2 72 13 R 56 26 82 0 86
1974 46 House 79 3 75 8 R 57 26 87 0* 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.