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Vote Data for S1564 (89th Congress)


Date: May 26, 1965

Subject: Voting Rights Act

Description: Passage of the bill, suspending the literacy tests or similar voter qualification devices in certain states and areas and authorizing the appointment of federal voting examiners to order the registration of Negroes in states and voting districts whose voter activity had fallen below certain specified levels; the bill also contained a Congressional declaration that state poll taxes discriminated against the right to vote and directed the Attorney General to institute actions against such taxes; the bill further authorized machinery to enforce its provisions.

Result: Bill Passed, 77-19

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Voted in Favor:

George Aiken (R-VT)  
Gordon Allott (R-CO)  
Clinton Anderson (D-NM)  
Bob Bartlett (D-AK)  
Ross Bass (D-TN)  
Birch Bayh (D-IN)  
Wallace Bennett (R-UT)  
Caleb Boggs (R-DE)  
Daniel Brewster (D-MD)  
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)  
Frank Carlson (R-KS)  
Clifford Case (R-NJ)  
Joseph Clark (D-PA)  
John Sherman Cooper (R-KY)  
Norris Cotton (R-NH)  
Carl Curtis (R-NE)  
Everett Dirksen (R-IL)  
Thomas Dodd (D-CT)  
Peter Dominick (R-CO)  
Paul Douglas (D-IL)  
Paul Fannin (R-AZ)  
Hiram Fong (R-HI)  
Albert Gore (D-TN)  
Ernest Gruening (D-AK)  
Fred Harris (D-OK)  
Vance Hartke (D-IN)  
Philip Hart (D-MI)  
Carl Hayden (D-AZ)  
Bourke Hickenlooper (R-IA)  
Roman Hruska (R-NE)  
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)  
Henry Jackson (D-WA)  
Jacob Javits (R-NY)  
Len Jordan (R-ID)  
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)  
Robert Kennedy (D-NY)  
Thomas Kuchel (R-CA)  
Frank Lausche (D-OH)  
Edward Long (D-MO)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Mike Mansfield (D-MT)  
Eugene McCarthy (D-MN)  
Gale McGee (D-WY)  
George McGovern (D-SD)  
Thomas McIntyre (D-NH)  
Patrick McNamara (D-MI)  
Lee Metcalf (D-MT)  
Jack Miller (R-IA)  
Walter Mondale (D-MN)  
Mike Monroney (D-OK)  
Joseph Montoya (D-NM)  
Wayne Morse (D-OR)  
Thruston Morton (R-KY)  
Frank Moss (D-UT)  
Karl Mundt (R-SD)  
George Murphy (R-CA)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)  
Maurine Neuberger (D-OR)  
John Pastore (D-RI)  
James Pearson (R-KS)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
Winston Prouty (R-VT)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT)  
Leverett Saltonstall (R-MA)  
Hugh Scott (R-PA)  
Milward Simpson (R-WY)  
Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME)  
Stuart Symington (D-MO)  
Joseph Tydings (D-MD)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  
John Williams (R-DE)  
Ralph Yarborough (D-TX)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  
Stephen Young (D-OH)  

Voted Against:

Harry Byrd (D-VA)  
James Eastland (D-MS)  
Allen Ellender (D-LA)  
Sam Ervin (D-NC)  
William Fulbright (D-AR)  
Lister Hill (D-AL)  
Spessard Holland (D-FL)  
Everett Jordan (D-NC)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
John McClellan (D-AR)  
Willis Robertson (D-VA)  
Donald Russell (D-SC)  
Richard Russell (D-GA)  
George Smathers (D-FL)  
John Sparkman (D-AL)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)  
John Tower (R-TX)  

Did Not Vote:

Alan Bible (D-NV)  
Robert Byrd (D-WV)  
Howard Cannon (D-NV)  
Frank Church (D-ID)  

Voting data shown on this page comes from Voteview.