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Frank Wolf

[Congressional biography]

Born: January 30, 1939 in Philadelphia, PA

Education:

  • Attended University of Mississippi, 1957-1958
  • Penn State University, B.A., 1961
  • Georgetown University, LL.B., 1965

Military Service:

  • U.S. Army Reserve, 1962-1967

Career:

  • Lawyer
  • Assistant to Rep. Edward Biester, 1968-1971
  • Assistant to U.S. Interior Secretary Rogers Morton, 1971-1974
  • Deputy assistant secretary in Interior Dept., 1974-1975


Election Results for Frank Wolf


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1976 37 VA R U.S. House District 10 Primary 2 5,934 41.5%
1978 39 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 2 61,981 46.6%
1980 41 VA R U.S. House District 10 Primary 1 13,782 75.1%
1980 41 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 110,840 51.1%
1982 43 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 86,506 52.7%
1984 45 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 158,528 62.5%
1986 47 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 95,724 60.2%
1988 49 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 188,550 68.1%
1990 51 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 103,761 61.5%
1992 53 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 144,471 63.6%
1994 55 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 153,311 87.3%
1996 57 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 169,266 72.0%
1998 59 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 103,648 71.6%
2000 61 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 238,817 84.2%
2002 63 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 115,917 71.7%
2004 65 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 205,982 63.8%
2006 67 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 138,213 57.3%
2008 69 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 223,140 58.8%
2010 71 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 131,116 62.9%
2012 73 VA R U.S. House District 10 General 1 214,038 58.4%


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



Ideology Data for Frank Wolf


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
1981 42 House 88 12 83 17 R 76 24 100 10 92
1982 43 House 78 15 69 28 R 56 39 96 11 68
1983 44 House 87 13 79 19 R 77 23 99 5 95
1984 45 House 86 12 71 27 R 64 33 98 11 65
1985 46 House 75 24 75 25 R 70 30 98 15 68
1986 47 House 78 22 74 25 R 67 33 99 5 86
1987 48 House 79 21 76 23 R 65 35 99 16 87
1988 49 House 87 13 82 17 R 59 40 99 25 88
1989 50 House 93 7 83 16 R 81 19 99 10 89
1990 51 House 83 15 78 21 R 71 29 99 6 83
1991 52 House 92 8 81 17 R 81 18 99 15 80
1992 53 House 96 4 86 13 R 78 22 99 20 83
1993 54 House 93 7 90 10 D 39 61 99 10 92
1994 55 House 89 11 86 13 D 53 46 99 0 86
1995 56 House 90 9 87 12 D 27 73 99 10 64
1996 57 House 88 12 88 10 D 38 62 98 5 95
1997 58 House 89 7 87 11 D 28 71 98 15 84
1998 59 House 86 14 88 11 D 24 76 99 10 80
1999 60 House 85 15 D 33 67 99 20 68
2000 61 House 84 14 D 34 66 98 10 72
2001 62 House 93 5 R 84 14 98 10 79
2002 63 House 88 12 R 86 14 99 5 92
2003 64 House 93 7 R 91 7 99 15 84
2004 65 House 85 15 R 82 18 98 25 76
2005 66 House 89 10 R 80 17 99 5 60
2006 67 House 83 14 R 82 18 98 10 64
2007 68 House 78 22 R 53 46 99 40 68
2008 69 House 84 13 R 63 34 98 33 79
2009 70 House 79 21 D 43 57 99 10 80
2010 71 House 89 11 D 27 73 99 10 92
2011 72 House 87 13 D 26 74 99 5 64
2012 73 House 86 14 D 20 76 99 11 64
2013 74 House 89 10 D 20 78 98 10 64
2014 75 House 88 10 D 14 85 98 5 52
Lifetime conservative rating:   77%


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.