Senator, Illinois · 1951–1969
Everett Dirksen
Republican leader who delivered votes for the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
Everett Dirksen is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Senator, Illinois, 1951–1969. The placement note is: Republican leader who delivered votes for the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
The dot is economics +28 and authority +12. That is right of center on economics. The other axis sits near the middle. Former members are placed from the public career, not from a 119th Congress Voteview score.
Said: A conservative who would not let civil rights die in a filibuster he could end. Done: He delivered the Republican votes for the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. The placement follows what the career did when the two diverge.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are Howard Baker (+24 / +8) and Thomas Brackett Reed (+26 / +18). Nearness is not a school of thought.
This page does not add votes that are not in the placement note. The bills themselves are in the Congressional Record for those years.