Sen. Clifford Case

Former Senator from New Jersey

Elected Positions

Dates	Title / State / District
1961-1978	Senator, New Jersey
1955-1960	Senator, New Jersey
1953-1954	Representative, New Jersey's 6^th District
1947-1952	Representative, New Jersey's 6^th District
1945-1946	Representative, New Jersey's 6^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Case was a centrist Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Case’s time serving in the Senate. Case’s bills had a total of 92 cosponsors in the 95^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Case to other members of the Senate in the 95^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Some of Case’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1955 to Oct 1978, Case missed 447 of 8,084 roll call votes, which is 5.5%. This is better than the median of 10.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1955 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Apr-Jun	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	1	4.3%	38^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	2	4.3%	69^th
1956 Apr-Jun	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	3	6.7%	50^th
1957 Jul-Aug	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Feb-Mar	38	2	5.3%	41^st
1958 Apr-Jun	83	1	1.2%	41^st
1958 Jul-Aug	76	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Jan-Apr	55	3	5.5%	82^nd
1959 May-Aug	127	6	4.7%	45^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	74	8	10.8%	77^th
1960 May-Aug	119	2	1.7%	17^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	135	1	0.7%	23^rd
1961 Sep-Sep	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	60	2	3.3%	37^th
1962 Jul-Sep	122	2	1.6%	15^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	68	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	53	2	3.8%	35^th
1963 Oct-Dec	82	3	3.7%	32^nd
1964 Jan-Mar	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	136	1	0.7%	32^nd
1964 Jul-Sep	105	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	32	1	3.1%	9^th
1965 Apr-Jun	106	8	7.5%	22^nd
1965 Jul-Sep	103	2	1.9%	22^nd
1965 Oct-Oct	12	1	8.3%	38^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	12	23.5%	79^th
1966 Jul-Sep	117	14	12.0%	62^nd
1966 Oct-Oct	23	12	52.2%	76^th
1967 Jan-Mar	52	2	3.8%	13^th
1967 Apr-Jun	69	20	29.0%	90^th
1967 Jul-Sep	78	3	3.8%	13^th
1967 Oct-Dec	110	1	0.9%	5^th
1968 Jan-Mar	68	3	4.4%	25^th
1968 Apr-Jun	91	13	14.3%	48^th
1968 Jul-Sep	88	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	1	2.3%	25^th
1969 Oct-Dec	154	16	10.4%	45^th
1970 Jan-Mar	100	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Apr-Jun	91	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Jul-Sep	120	1	0.8%	6^th
1970 Oct-Dec	103	4	3.9%	15^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	4	16.0%	49^th
1971 Apr-Jun	88	3	3.4%	9^th
1971 Jul-Sep	107	5	4.7%	21^st
1971 Oct-Dec	202	9	4.5%	17^th
1972 Jan-Mar	118	6	5.1%	22^nd
1972 Apr-Jun	129	11	8.5%	34^th
1972 Jul-Sep	205	6	2.9%	17^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	7	9.3%	38^th
1973 Jan-Mar	67	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	190	10	5.3%	27^th
1973 Jul-Sep	166	6	3.6%	31^st
1973 Oct-Dec	168	4	2.4%	14^th
1974 Jan-Mar	93	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Apr-Jun	177	10	5.6%	36^th
1974 Jul-Sep	137	18	13.1%	74^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	5	3.8%	18^th
1975 Jan-Mar	117	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Apr-Jun	140	13	9.3%	51^st
1975 Jul-Sep	167	9	5.4%	28^th
1975 Oct-Dec	178	5	2.8%	18^th
1976 Jan-Mar	103	3	2.9%	23^rd
1976 Apr-Jun	262	30	11.5%	51^st
1976 Jul-Sep	311	17	5.5%	18^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	7	53.8%	67^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	6	6.5%	40^th
1977 Apr-Jun	175	12	6.9%	40^th
1977 Jul-Sep	232	31	13.4%	81^st
1977 Oct-Dec	131	5	3.8%	23^rd
1978 Jan-Mar	78	5	6.4%	36^th
1978 Apr-Jun	116	7	6.0%	51^st
1978 Jul-Sep	233	25	10.7%	52^nd
1978 Oct-Oct	85	15	17.6%	72^nd

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Clifford Case [R-NJ, 1961-1978] leaves office as Senator from New Jersey

Oct 15, 1978

Elections and Offices

Sen. Clifford Case [R-NJ, 1961-1978] takes office as Senator from New Jersey

Jan 03, 1961

Elections and Offices

Sen. Clifford Case [R-NJ, 1961-1978] leaves office as Senator from New Jersey

Sep 01, 1960

Elections and Offices

Sen. Clifford Case [R-NJ, 1961-1978] takes office as Senator from New Jersey

Jan 05, 1955

Elections and Offices

Sen. Clifford Case [R-NJ, 1961-1978] leaves office as Representative for New Jersey's 6th congressional district

Dec 02, 1954