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Charles Wilson

[Congressional biography]

Born: February 15, 1917 in Magna, UT
Died: July 21, 1984 in Clinton, MD

Military Service:

  • U.S. Army, 1942-1945

Elected Office:

  • CA Assembly, 1954-1962

Other notes:

  • Reprimanded by the U.S. House of Representatives on October 13, 1978, for making a false statement to the Ethics Committee investigating the Korean influence matter
  • Censured by the U.S. House of Representatives on June 10, 1980, for financial misconduct and payroll fraud


Election Results for Charles Wilson


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1950 33 CA R U.S. House District 17 Primary 2 20,380 45.5%
1950 33 CA D U.S. House District 17 Primary 2 13,480 16.0%
1962 45 CA D U.S. House District 31 Primary 1 19,858 34.4%
1962 45 CA D U.S. House District 31 General 1 76,631 52.2%
1964 47 CA D U.S. House District 31 Primary 1 60,717 88.1%
1964 47 CA R (write-in) U.S. House District 31 Primary 4 1,052 2.6%
1964 47 CA D U.S. House District 31 General 1 114,246 64.0%
1966 49 CA D U.S. House District 31 Primary 1 48,941 67.3%
1966 49 CA D U.S. House District 31 General 1 92,875 63.4%
1968 51 CA D U.S. House District 31 Primary 1 49,889 57.4%
1968 51 CA D U.S. House District 31 General 1 97,855 58.9%
1970 53 CA D U.S. House District 31 Primary 1 41,288 62.2%
1970 53 CA D U.S. House District 31 General 1 102,071 73.2%
1972 55 CA D U.S. House District 31 Primary 1 38,295 50.9%
1972 55 CA D U.S. House District 31 General 1 87,975 52.3%
1974 57 CA D U.S. House District 31 Primary 1 29,833 56.3%
1974 57 CA D U.S. House District 31 General 1 61,322 70.4%
1976 59 CA D U.S. House District 31 Primary 1 34,979 62.4%
1976 59 CA D U.S. House District 31 General 1 83,155 100.0%
1978 61 CA D U.S. House District 31 Primary 1 23,705 39.7%
1978 61 CA D U.S. House District 31 General 1 55,667 67.7%
1980 63 CA D U.S. House District 31 Primary 3 9,320 15.3%


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



Ideology Data for Charles Wilson


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
1963 46 House 0 53 76 0 D 70 1 72 91 8
1964 47 House 8 67 77 5 D 81 4 71 100 7
1965 48 House 8 59 67 6 D 72 6 71 78 14
1966 49 House 5 62 45 1 D 43 3 52 85 12
1967 50 House 6 61 63 6 D 61 8 60 83 10
1968 51 House 8 67 66 4 D 64 8 61 91 5
1969 52 House 27 64 69 13 R 40 38 75 64 50
1970 53 House 18 27 43 13 R 42 23 54 79 31
1971 54 House 26 37 50 15 R 37 28 61 66 27
1972 55 House 40 41 48 26 R 68 27 79 43 30
1973 56 House 25 74 82 15 R 30 66 95 76 20
1974 57 House 24 52 66 14 R 38 49 80 44 19
1975 58 House 20 52 64 12 R 37 43 75 63* 19
1976 59 House 31 48 62 16 R 25 57 73 56 21
1977 60 House 35 42 61 19 D 53 28 82 47 31
1978 61 House 26 29 39 17 D 29 32 59 50 37
1979 62 House 35 28 42 22 D 34 29 62 47 30
1980 63 House 9 15 21 6 D 23 14 26 56 36
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.