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Olin Teague

[Congressional biography]

Born: April 6, 1910 in Woodward, OK
Died: January 23, 1981 in Bethesda, MD

Education:

  • Texas A&M College, B.A., 1932

Military Service:

  • AR National Guard, 1927-1930
  • Officers' Reserve Corps, 1936-1940
  • U.S. Army, 1940-1946
  • Awarded the Purple Heart, Silver Star, Silver Star First Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart First Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart Second Oak Leaf Cluster, Silver Star Second Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star Medal, Commendation Ribbon with Medal Pendant, Bronze Star Medal Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Combat Infantryman Badge
  • Also awarded the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with three bronze service stars, American Defense Service Medal, Distinguished Unit Emblem, American Campaign Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Croix de Guerre with Palm and French Fourragere

Career:

  • Postal worker, 1932-1940


Election Results for Olin Teague


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1946 36 TX D U.S. House District 06 Primary 2 10,872 22.2%
1946 36 TX D U.S. House District 06 Special 1 36,365 100.0%
1946 36 TX D U.S. House District 06 General 1 11,421 100.0%
1948 38 TX D U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 46,754 100.0%
1948 38 TX D U.S. House District 06 General 1 18,731 99.8%
1950 40 TX D U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 46,249 100.0%
1950 40 TX D U.S. House District 06 General 1 8,118 100.0%
1952 42 TX D U.S. House District 06 General 1 49,467 100.0%
1954 44 TX D U.S. House District 06 General 1 15,161 100.0%
1956 46 TX D U.S. House District 06 General 1 42,383 100.0%
1958 48 TX D U.S. House District 06 General 1 25,827 100.0%
1960 50 TX D U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 37,192 66.5%
1960 50 TX D U.S. House District 06 General 1 56,603 100.0%
1962 52 TX D U.S. House District 06 General 1 33,617 100.0%
1964 54 TX D U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 37,653 73.7%
1964 54 TX D U.S. House District 06 General 1 55,155 82.2%
1966 56 TX D U.S. House District 06 General 1 42,017 100.0%
1968 58 TX D U.S. House District 06 General 1 90,889 100.0%
1970 60 TX D U.S. House District 06 General 1 74,038 100.0%
1972 62 TX D U.S. House District 06 General 1 100,917 72.6%
1974 64 TX D U.S. House District 06 General 1 53,345 83.0%
1976 66 TX D U.S. House District 06 Primary 1 40,181 54.6%
1976 66 TX D U.S. House District 06 General 1 119,025 65.9%


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



Ideology Data for Olin Teague


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
1947 37 House 84 11 D 93 67
1948 38 House 86 11 D 95 77
1949 39 House 52 41 D 93 50
1950 40 House 37 44 D 84 7
1951 41 House 40 43 D 83 9
1952 42 House 36 57 D 93 0
1953 43 House 71 13 R 54 73 44
1954 44 House 53 27 R 32 55 84 44
1955 45 House 58 33 R 56 29 79 22
1956 46 House 56 22 R 44 35 82 33
1957 47 House 53 25 R 28 50 75 11
1958 48 House 49 14 R 24 38 67 18
1959 49 House 82 18 69 19 R 33 54 84 50
1960 50 House 26 11 39 12 R 19 44 61 20
1961 51 House 65 22 43 38 D 40 46 83 22 75
1962 52 House 81 6 51 37 D 50 40 87 25 75
1963 53 House 73 20 48 29 D 44 30 74 42 53
1964 54 House 83 8 47 29 D 48 31 78 46 53
1965 55 House 73 16 42 42 D 46 41 82 17 82
1966 56 House 68 16 34 46 D 44 40 77 7 81
1967 57 House 63 15 43 35 D 45 35 78 17 85
1968 58 House 41 16 28 24 D 37 22 55 22 56
1969 59 House 56 18 33 36 R 34 34 65 0 64
1970 60 House 57 2 35 33 R 42 32 70 0 86
1971 61 House 56 9 33 36 R 61 16 71 7 89
1972 62 House 56 11 24 40 R 41 49 78 7 75
1973 63 House 59 17 34 36 R 40 30 68 33 62
1974 64 House 51 9 22 32 R 47 17 58 4* 89
1975 65 House 49 8 26 35 R 37 25 58 5* 84
1976 66 House 63 10 26 46 R 57 18 72 11 93
1977 67 House 12 1 7 9 D 5 13 18 0 90
1978 68 House 5 2 5 3 D 4 3 9 8 70
Lifetime conservative rating:   78%


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.