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Errett Scrivner

[Congressional biography]

Born: March 20, 1898 in Newton, KS
Died: May 5, 1978 in Cocoa Beach, FL

Education:

  • University of Kansas Law School, 1925

Military Service:

  • U.S. Army, 1917-1919
  • Awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart medals

Career:

  • Lawyer
  • U.S. Department of Defense, 1959-1961
  • Cocoa Beach city commissioner, 1970


Election Results for Errett Scrivner


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1943 45 KS R U.S. House District 02 Special 1 19,798 69.1%
1944 46 KS R U.S. House District 02 General 1 68,815 59.1%
1946 48 KS R U.S. House District 02 General 1 56,363 58.8%
1948 50 KS R U.S. House District 02 General 1 68,324 51.9%
1950 52 KS R U.S. House District 02 General 1 58,862 53.1%
1952 54 KS R U.S. House District 02 General 1 91,676 57.3%
1954 56 KS R U.S. House District 02 General 1 64,263 54.7%
1956 58 KS R U.S. House District 02 General 1 93,609 54.9%
1958 60 KS R U.S. House District 02 General 2 67,882 49.2%


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



Ideology Data for Errett Scrivner


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
1943 45 House 8 2 D 13
1944 46 House 83 10 D 91
1945 47 House 92 6 D 95
1946 48 House 87 7 D 85
1947 49 House 89 3 D 92 0
1948 50 House 94 6 D 97 0
1949 51 House 98 2 D 99 0
1950 52 House 92 3 D 97 0
1951 53 House 94 3 D 94 8
1952 54 House 89 7 D 93 0
1953 55 House 87 11 R 68 99 9
1954 56 House 70 3 R 71 16 75 13
1955 57 House 74 6 R 56 34 86 13
1956 58 House 75 13 R 65 24 85 14
1957 59 House 81 8 R 42 47 87 11
1958 60 House 68 24 R 40 50 90 0


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.