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Vote Data for Literacy Tests for Voting (87th Congress)


Date: May 9, 1962

Subject: Literacy Tests for Voting

Description: Mansfield (D-MT)-Dirksen (R-IL) motion to invoke cloture and limit debate on the administration bill which would require that anyone with a sixth grade education must be passed in a literacy test for voting in federal elections.

Result: Cloture Motion Rejected, 43-53

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Voted in Favor:

Gordon Allott (R-CO)  
Clinton Anderson (D-NM)  
Glenn Beall (R-MD)  
Caleb Boggs (R-DE)  
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)  
Prescott Bush (R-CT)  
John Carroll (D-CO)  
Clifford Case (R-NJ)  
Joseph Clark (D-PA)  
Everett Dirksen (R-IL)  
Thomas Dodd (D-CT)  
Paul Douglas (D-IL)  
Clair Engle (D-CA)  
Hiram Fong (R-HI)  
Ernest Gruening (D-AK)  
Vance Hartke (D-IN)  
Philip Hart (D-MI)  
Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)  
Henry Jackson (D-WA)  
Jacob Javits (R-NY)  
Kenneth Keating (R-NY)  
Thomas Kuchel (R-CA)  
Frank Lausche (D-OH)  
Edward Long (D-MO)  
Oren Long (D-HI)  
Mike Mansfield (D-MT)  
Eugene McCarthy (D-MN)  
Patrick McNamara (D-MI)  
Lee Metcalf (D-MT)  
Frank Moss (D-UT)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Maurine Neuberger (D-OR)  
John Pastore (D-RI)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
Leverett Saltonstall (R-MA)  
Hugh Scott (R-PA)  
Benjamin Smith (D-MA)  
Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME)  
Stuart Symington (D-MO)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  
Stephen Young (D-OH)  

Voted Against:

George Aiken (R-VT)  
Bob Bartlett (D-AK)  
Wallace Bennett (R-UT)  
Alan Bible (D-NV)  
John Marshall Butler (R-MD)  
Harry Byrd (D-VA)  
Robert Byrd (D-WV)  
Howard Cannon (D-NV)  
Homer Capehart (R-IN)  
Frank Carlson (R-KS)  
Francis Case (R-SD)  
Dennis Chavez (D-NM)  
John Sherman Cooper (R-KY)  
Norris Cotton (R-NH)  
Carl Curtis (R-NE)  
Henry Dworshak (R-ID)  
James Eastland (D-MS)  
Allen Ellender (D-LA)  
Sam Ervin (D-NC)  
William Fulbright (D-AR)  
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)  
Albert Gore (D-TN)  
Carl Hayden (D-AZ)  
Bourke Hickenlooper (R-IA)  
Lister Hill (D-AL)  
Spessard Holland (D-FL)  
Roman Hruska (R-NE)  
Olin Johnston (D-SC)  
Everett Jordan (D-NC)  
Estes Kefauver (D-TN)  
Robert Kerr (D-OK)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
John McClellan (D-AR)  
Gale McGee (D-WY)  
Jack Miller (R-IA)  
Mike Monroney (D-OK)  
Thruston Morton (R-KY)  
Karl Mundt (R-SD)  
Maurice Murphy (R-NH)  
James Pearson (R-KS)  
Winston Prouty (R-VT)  
Willis Robertson (D-VA)  
Richard Russell (D-GA)  
George Smathers (D-FL)  
John Sparkman (D-AL)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
Strom Thurmond (D-SC)  
John Tower (R-TX)  
Alexander Wiley (R-WI)  
John Williams (R-DE)  
Ralph Yarborough (D-TX)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  

Did Not Vote:

Frank Church (D-ID)  
Joe Hickey (D-WY)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Wayne Morse (D-OR)  

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