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Alexander Smith

[Congressional biography]

Born: January 30, 1880 in New York City, NY
Died: October 27, 1966 in Princeton, NJ

Education:

  • Princeton University, 1901
  • Columbia University Law School, 1904

Career:

  • Lawyer
  • Executive secretary, Princeton University, 1919-1927
  • Lecturer at Princeton University, 1927-1930
  • Member of RNC, 1942-1943
  • Consultant to U.S. Secretary of State, 1959-1960


Election Results for Alexander Smith


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

YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1944 64 NJ R U.S. Senate Class 1 Special Primary 1 187,190 82.5%
1944 64 NJ R U.S. Senate Class 1 Special 1 939,987 50.4%
1946 66 NJ R U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 369,157 100.0%
1946 66 NJ R U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 799,808 58.5%
1952 72 NJ R U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 419,376 86.5%
1952 72 NJ R U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 1,286,782 55.5%


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



Ideology Data for Alexander Smith


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
1945 65 Senate 60 28 D 86
1946 66 Senate 74 19 D 93
1947 67 Senate 70 16 D 88 40
1948 68 Senate 69 22 D 86 57
1949 69 Senate 54 32 D 85 29
1950 70 Senate 55 35 D 80 44
1951 71 Senate 61 26 D 77 42
1952 72 Senate 59 31 D 91 57
1953 73 Senate 77 17 R 91 91 47
1954 74 Senate 90 9 R 82 4 86 38
1955 75 Senate 88 4 R 85 2 91 20
1956 76 Senate 88 6 R 91 3 88 31
1957 77 Senate 66 8 R 77 11 85 58
1958 78 Senate 59 18 R 81 4 79 25


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.