Senator, Arizona · 1953–1965, 1969–1987
Barry Goldwater
1964 conservative nominee. Anti-New Deal, later a libertarian on some social questions and a hawk in his prime.
Barry Goldwater is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Senator, Arizona, 1953–1965, 1969–1987. The placement note is: 1964 conservative nominee. Anti-New Deal, later a libertarian on some social questions and a hawk in his prime.
The dot is economics +62 and authority +28. That is right of center on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Former members are placed from the public career, not from a 119th Congress Voteview score.
Said: Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Sell the TVA, and do not pass the Civil Rights Act. Done: He lost in a landslide. The conservative movement he named took the party sixteen years later. Late in life he defended gay service members. The placement follows what the career did when the two diverge.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are Robert A. Taft (+52 / +18) and Paul Ryan (+50 / +20). 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.