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Roman Pucinski

[Congressional biography]

Born: May 13, 1919 in Buffalo, NY
Died: September 25, 2002 in Chicago, IL

Education:

  • Attended Northwestern University, 1938-1941
  • Attended John Marshall Law School, 1945-1949

Military Service:

  • U.S. Air Force, 1940-1945

Career:

  • Reporter for Chicago Sun-Times, 1939-1959
  • National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, 1974-1982

Elected Office:

  • Chicago alderman, 1973-1991


Election Results for Roman Pucinski


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1956 37 IL D U.S. House District 11 Primary 1 25,987 76.0%
1956 37 IL D U.S. House District 11 General 2 76,400 44.5%
1958 39 IL D U.S. House District 11 Primary 1 25,121 100.0%
1958 39 IL D U.S. House District 11 General 1 79,167 56.7%
1960 41 IL D U.S. House District 11 Primary 1 45,726 100.0%
1960 41 IL D U.S. House District 11 General 1 101,224 54.0%
1962 43 IL D U.S. House District 11 Primary 1 43,817 100.0%
1962 43 IL D U.S. House District 11 General 1 103,677 52.7%
1964 45 IL D U.S. House District 11 Primary 1 51,522 100.0%
1964 45 IL D U.S. House District 11 General 1 129,337 56.9%
1966 47 IL D U.S. House District 11 General 1 105,996 50.9%
1968 49 IL D U.S. House District 11 Primary 1 43,701 88.0%
1968 49 IL D U.S. House District 11 General 1 128,152 55.8%
1970 51 IL D U.S. House District 11 General 1 137,090 71.9%
1972 53 IL D U.S. Senate Class 2 Primary 1 859,890 70.6%
1972 53 IL D U.S. Senate Class 2 General 2 1,721,031 37.3%


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



Ideology Data for Roman Pucinski


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
1959 40 House 0 100 94 6 R 48 52 100 100
1960 41 House 11 89 82 18 R 58 42 100 100
1961 42 House 13 87 97 3 D 95 5 100 100 7
1962 43 House 25 75 86 11 D 88 8 92 88 20
1963 44 House 0 87 91 7 D 86 7 92 92 7
1964 45 House 8 83 85 8 D 88 8 90 92 13
1965 46 House 10 86 80 11 D 85 8 90 78 29
1966 47 House 14 65 74 14 D 74 12 83 67 37
1967 48 House 17 57 74 9 D 74 9 78 69 30
1968 49 House 22 71 73 15 D 69 15 82 73 11
1969 50 House 29 47 65 15 R 32 40 81 50 36
1970 51 House 27 68 71 19 R 63 31 90 39 6
1971 52 House 25 65 75 12 R 46 51 89 74 42
1972 53 House 17 45 55 7 R 43 19 59 60 33
Lifetime conservative rating:   23%


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.