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Vote Data for HR4249 (91st Congress)


Date: March 12, 1970

Subject: Lower Federal Voting Age to 18

Description: Mansfield (D-MT) amendment lowering to 18 the voting age for all federal, state and local elections, effective Jan. 1, 1971. This amendment was said to add approximately 11 million persons to the lists of potential voters.

Result: Agreed to, 64-17

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Voted in Favor:

George Aiken (R-VT)  
Clinton Anderson (D-NM)  
Howard Baker, Jr. (R-TN)  
Birch Bayh (D-IN)  
Henry Bellmon (R-OK)  
Alan Bible (D-NV)  
Caleb Boggs (R-DE)  
Edward Brooke (R-MA)  
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)  
Robert Byrd (D-WV)  
Howard Cannon (D-NV)  
Clifford Case (R-NJ)  
Frank Church (D-ID)  
Marlow Cook (R-KY)  
John Sherman Cooper (R-KY)  
Norris Cotton (R-NH)  
Alan Cranston (D-CA)  
Robert Dole (R-KS)  
Thomas Eagleton (D-MO)  
Hiram Fong (R-HI)  
William Fulbright (D-AR)  
Albert Gore (D-TN)  
Clifford Hansen (R-WY)  
Fred Harris (D-OK)  
Vance Hartke (D-IN)  
Philip Hart (D-MI)  
Mark Hatfield (R-OR)  
Ernest Hollings (D-SC)  
Harold Hughes (D-IA)  
Henry Jackson (D-WA)  
Jacob Javits (R-NY)  
Len Jordan (R-ID)  
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Charles Mathias (R-MD)  
Gale McGee (D-WY)  
George McGovern (D-SD)  
Thomas McIntyre (D-NH)  
Lee Metcalf (D-MT)  
Walter Mondale (D-MN)  
Joseph Montoya (D-NM)  
Frank Moss (D-UT)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)  
Bob Packwood (R-OR)  
John Pastore (D-RI)  
James Pearson (R-KS)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
Charles Percy (R-IL)  
Winston Prouty (R-VT)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT)  
William Saxbe (R-OH)  
Richard Schweiker (R-PA)  
Hugh Scott (R-PA)  
Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME)  
William Spong (D-VA)  
Stuart Symington (D-MO)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  
John Williams (R-DE)  
Ralph Yarborough (D-TX)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  
Stephen Young (D-OH)  

Voted Against:

Jim Allen (D-AL)  
Gordon Allott (R-CO)  
Wallace Bennett (R-UT)  
Carl Curtis (R-NE)  
James Eastland (D-MS)  
Allen Ellender (D-LA)  
Sam Ervin (D-NC)  
Paul Fannin (R-AZ)  
Spessard Holland (D-FL)  
Roman Hruska (R-NE)  
Everett Jordan (D-NC)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
Jack Miller (R-IA)  
George Murphy (R-CA)  
John Sparkman (D-AL)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)  

Did Not Vote:

Harry Byrd, Jr. (D-VA)  
Thomas Dodd (D-CT)  
Peter Dominick (R-CO)  
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)  
Charles Goodell (R-NY)  
Mike Gravel (D-AK)  
Robert Griffin (R-MI)  
Edward Gurney (R-FL)  
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)  
Mike Mansfield (D-MT)  
Eugene McCarthy (D-MN)  
John McClellan (D-AR)  
Karl Mundt (R-SD)  
Richard Russell (D-GA)  
Ralph Smith (R-IL)  
Ted Stevens (R-AK)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
John Tower (R-TX)  
Joseph Tydings (D-MD)  

Voting data shown on this page comes from Voteview.