There, he wrote what is now considered a "landmark series of studies on the backgrounds of Supreme Court justices.

"[1] In what was then considered revolutionary, he archived his data with the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) which has enabled many other scholars to use his data in their own studies, and served as the foundation for the new U.S. Supreme Court Justices Database.

However, like many other freshman Democrats elected in 1964 in Republican-leaning districts, Schmidhauser served only one term.

In 1972, Schmidhauser tried and failed to receive the nomination of his party for the seat he previously held, losing to future U.S. Representative Edward Mezvinsky.

[2] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress