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Abraham Ribicoff

[Congressional biography]

Born: April 9, 1910 in New Britain, CT
Died: February 22, 1998 in New York City, NY

Education:

  • University of Chicago Law School, 1933

Career:

  • Lawyer
  • Municipal judge, 1941-1947
  • U.S. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare, 1961-1962

Elected Office:

  • CT House, 1938-1942


Election Results for Abraham Ribicoff


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1948 38 CT D U.S. House District 01 General 1 127,802 54.7%
1950 40 CT D U.S. House District 01 General 1 134,258 58.1%
1952 42 CT D U.S. Senate Class 3 Special 2 530,505 48.5%
1954 44 CT D Governor General 1 463,643 49.5%
1958 48 CT D Governor General 1 607,012 62.3%
1962 52 CT D U.S. Senate Class 3 General 1 527,522 51.3%
1968 58 CT D U.S. Senate Class 3 General 1 655,043 54.3%
1974 64 CT D U.S. Senate Class 3 General 1 690,820 63.7%


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



Ideology Data for Abraham Ribicoff


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
1949 39 House 77 9 D 78 92
1950 40 House 60 29 D 84 73
1951 41 House 60 25 D 78 91
1952 42 House 77 11 D 88 100
1963 53 Senate 19 79 73 18 D 78 10 91 88 6
1964 54 Senate 6 90 72 15 D 71 18 90 95 13
1965 55 Senate 5 89 77 11 D 75 13 88 94 7
1966 56 Senate 3 91 77 8 D 75 17 89 90 7
1967 57 Senate 13 68 72 13 D 64 21 83 85 21
1968 58 Senate 17 50 48 22 D 52 21 69 86 36
1969 59 Senate 12 80 78 13 R 42 38 84 89 7
1970 60 Senate 10 73 71 11 R 45 40 79 95 10
1971 61 Senate 12 69 77 11 R 30 57 83 93 0
1972 62 Senate 5 72 69 9 R 35 54 79 95 17
1973 63 Senate 10 88 85 9 R 37 57 95 90 20
1974 64 Senate 7 85 82 12 R 33 60 92 90 13
1975 65 Senate 8 86 90 5 R 45 51 94 78* 3
1976 66 Senate 24 67 71 17 R 36 51 91 80 6
1977 67 Senate 7 87 83 6 D 77 16 91 84 3
1978 68 Senate 16 75 79 12 D 81 9 89 63 8
1979 69 Senate 11 54 70 7 D 70 10 76 72 15
1980 70 Senate 12 59 60 7 D 66 10 68 67 19
Lifetime conservative rating:   11%


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.