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US Vice President - Appointment

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Office

Vice President

Type

Appointment

Filing Deadline

December 19, 1974 - 12:00pm

Polls Open

December 19, 1974 - 06:00am

Polls Close

December 19, 1974 - 07:00pm

Term Start

December 19, 1974 - 12:00pm

Term End

January 20, 1977 - 12:00pm

Contributor

U Ole Polecat

Last Modified

RBH February 06, 2019 01:53am

Data Sources

New York Times 12/11,19/1974

Description

Appointed to Office by President Ford.

Vote in the Senate (12/10/74): Confirm 90 (52 Democrats, 36 Republicans, 1 Independent, 1 Conservative), Reject 7 (4 Democrats/3 Republicans).

Vote in the House (12/19/74): Confirm 287 (134 Democrats and 153 Republicans), Reject 128 (98 Democrats and 30 Republicans).

Rockefeller was inaugurated after the House vote on December 19th.

LAST GENERAL ELECTION
	Party	Republican	Won	11/07/1972
	Name	Spiro T. Agnew	Votes	520 (96.65%)
	Term	01/20/1973 - 10/10/1973	Margin	503 (+93.49%)

KEY RACE? 10.0000000000 Average

CANDIDATES

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Name

Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller

Supreme Court Reject

Party

Republican

No Party Affiliation

Votes

377 (73.63%)

135 (26.37%)

Margin

0 (0.00%)

-242 (-47.27%)

Predict Avg.

0.00%

Finances

$0.00

MATCHUP POLLS

ENDORSEMENTS

Endorsements

For	Luzerne County Historian
D	Robert C. Eckhardt [L]
D	Shirley A. Chisholm [L]
DFL	Donald M. Fraser [L]
D	Michael J. Harrington [L]
D	Augustus F. "Gus" Hawkins [L]
D	Don Edwards [L]
D	Thomas F. Eagleton [L]
D	William D. Hathaway [L]
D	Peter W. Rodino, Jr. [L]
D	Ogden R. Reid [L]
D	Robert N.C. Nix Sr. [L]
R	James L. Buckley [L]
R	Trent Lott [L]
D	Charles B. Rangel [L]
LBT	Smart
I	McCord 2014
R	CincinnatiReds1990
D	Mike Gravel

BEER	WSNJ
R	Kyle
R	Donald E. "Don" Young [L]
R	Sam Steiger [L]
R	John B. Conlan [L]
D	William V. "Bill" Alexander, Jr. [L]
D	John E. Moss, Jr. [L]
D	John Burton [L]
D	Phillip Burton [L]
D	Ronald V. "Ron" Dellums [L]
D	Fortney "Pete" Stark [L]
D	Leo J. Ryan [L]
R	Robert J. Lagomarsino [L]
D	Jerome R. Waldie [L]
D	James C. Corman [L]
R	Delwin Clawson [L]
R	John H. Rousselot [L]
D	Thomas M. Rees [L]
R	Barry M. Goldwater, Jr. [L]
D	George E. Danielson [L]
D	Edward R. Roybal [L]
D	Charles H. Wilson [L]
D	Glenn M. Anderson [L]
R	William M. Ketchum [L]
D	Yvonne Brathwaite Burke [L]
D	George E. Brown, Jr. [L]
R	Clair W. Burgener [L]
D	Patricia N. "Pat" Schroeder [L]
D	Robert N. Giaimo [L]
D	Charles E. Bennett [L]
D	William V. "Bill" Chappell Jr. [L]
D	William D. "Bill" Gunter, Jr. [L]
D	Sam M. Gibbons [L]
D	James Andrew Haley [L]
R	L. A. "Skip" Bafalis [L]
R	J. Herbert Burke [L]
D	Ronald Bryan "Bo" Ginn [L]
D	Dawson Mathis [L]
D	Jack Brinkley [L]
R	Benjamin B. Blackburn [L]
D	John J. Flynt, Jr. [L]
D	John W. Davis [L]
D	Patsy T. Mink [L]
R	Steven D. "Steve" Symms [L]
D	Ralph H. Metcalfe [L]
D	Cardiss Collins [L]
D	Sidney R. Yates [L]
R	Philip M. Crane [L]
R	Earl F. Landgrebe [L]
D	Edward Mezvinsky [L]
R	H.R. Gross [L]
D	Neal Smith [L]
D	William R. "Bill" Roy [L]
R	M. Gene Snyder [L]
AIP	John R. Rarick [L]
D	Gillis W. Long [L]
D	Peter N. Kyros [L]
D	Clarence D. Long [L]
D	Paul S. Sarbanes [L]
D	Parren J. Mitchell [L]
D	Robert F. Drinan [L]
D	John Joseph "Joe" Moakley [L]
D	James A. Burke [L]
D	John Conyers, Jr. [L]
D	James G. O'Hara [L]
D	Lucien N. Nedzi [L]
D	William D. Ford [L]
D	John D. Dingell [L]
D	Martha W. Griffiths [L]
R	Robert J. Huber [L]
DFL	Joseph E. "Joe" Karth [L]
DFL	Robert "Bob" Bergland [L]
D	David R. Bowen [L]
D	William "Bill" Clay, Sr. [L]
D	Leonor K. Sullivan [L]
D	William J. Randall [L]
D	Richard H. Ichord [L]
D	William D. "Bill" Burlison [L]
D	John "Doc" Melcher [L]
D	Harold L. Runnels [L]
D	Otis G. Pike [L]
D	Lester L. Wolff [L]
D	Benjamin S. Rosenthal [L]
D	Mario Biaggi [L]
D	Elizabeth Holtzman [L]
D	Bella S. Abzug [L]
D	Herman Badillo [L]
D	Jonathan B. Bingham [L]
D	Samuel S. Stratton [L]
D	James M. Hanley [L]
D	Walter B. Jones, Sr. [L]
D	Charles G. Rose III [L]
D	Thomas A. Luken [L]
R	Donald D. Clancy [L]
R	Tennyson Guyer [L]
R	Delbert L. Latta [L]
R	Walter E. Powell [L]
R	Clarence E. Miller [L]
R	J. William Stanton [L]
D	John F. Seiberling, Jr. [L]
R	John M. Ashbrook [L]
D	Charles J. Carney [L]
D	Charles A. Vanik [L]
D	William A. Barrett [L]
D	Joshua Eilberg [L]
D	Joseph M. Gaydos [L]
D	John H. Dent II [L]
D	Robert O. Tiernan [L]
R	Floyd Spence [L]
D	Frank E. Denholm [L]
R	LaMar Baker [L]
D	Joseph L. Evins [L]
D	Richard H. Fulton [L]
R	Robin Beard [L]
D	Ed Jones [L]
D	Wright Patman [L]
R	Bill Archer [L]
R	Bob Price [L]
D	Eligio "Kika" de la Garza [L]
D	Richard C. White [L]
D	Henry B. Gonzalez [L]
D	Wayne Owens [L]
D	David E. Satterfield III [L]
D	Wilbur C. "Dan" Daniel [L]
D	Floyd Verne Hicks [L]
D	Kenneth W. "Ken" Hechler [L]
D	Les Aspin [L]
D	Robert W. "Bob" Kastenmeier [L]
D	Clement J. Zablocki [L]
D	David R. Obey [L]
R	Kyle
D	Gaylord A. Nelson [L]
D	Howard M. Metzenbaum [L]
D	Birch E. Bayh [L]
D	James G. Abourezk [L]
R	William L. Scott [L]
R	Barry M. Goldwater
R	Jesse A. Helms

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