Senator, Georgia · 1933–1971
Richard Russell
Southern Democratic leader. Armed services power, and a long defense of segregation.
Richard Russell is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Senator, Georgia, 1933–1971. The placement note is: Southern Democratic leader. Armed services power, and a long defense of segregation.
The dot is economics +4 and authority +58. That is near the middle on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Former members are placed from the public career, not from a 119th Congress Voteview score.
No separate “said, then did” note is on file. The career sentence above is the whole of the written placement. It names the public fact the dot is built from, and it stops there.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are John C. Calhoun (+8 / +58) and Strom Thurmond (+18 / +66). 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.