Senator, Maine · 1949–1973
Margaret Chase Smith
Declaration of Conscience against McCarthy. A moderate Republican with a long Senate career.
Margaret Chase Smith is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Senator, Maine, 1949–1973. The placement note is: Declaration of Conscience against McCarthy. A moderate Republican with a long Senate career.
The dot is economics +22 and authority +4. 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: The Senate’s conscience against McCarthy’s method, from inside the Republican Party. Done: The Declaration of Conscience was delivered. She stayed a moderate and lost in 1972. The placement follows what the career did when the two diverge.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are Richard Lugar (+22 / +4) and Howard Baker (+24 / +8). 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.