House roll call 96 · 85th Congress · Aug 27, 1957
H RES 410. Take HR 6127 (civil rights act of 1957) from speaker's desk and concur in Senate jury trial amendment with house-Senate leadership compromise amendm
On Aug 27, 1957, the House voted 279–97 (HRE 410). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 133–86, Republicans 155–20. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 106 members voted against their own party.
During the 85th Congress (1957–1958), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 279
- No
- 97
- Did not vote
- 10
- Date
- Aug 27, 1957
By party
- Democrats133 yes · 86 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans155 yes · 20 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL voted no
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted no
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- James William Trimble D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- William Cato Cramer R-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted no
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted no
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA voted no
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA voted no
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID voted no
- Russell Watson Keeney R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA voted no
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted no
- George Shannon Long D-LA voted no
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Ralph James Scott D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted no
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC voted no
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted no
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted no
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC voted no
- George Adams Shuford D-NC voted no
- John Henry Ray R-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
- John Jacob Riley D-SC voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC voted no
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC voted no
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN voted no
And 26 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Edwin Hyland May Jr. R-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert William Cretella R-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Harry Garner Haskell Jr. R-DE
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- F. Jay Nimtz R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Robert John Mcintosh R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Vincent John Dellay R-NJ
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- Ludwig Teller D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- David Short Dennison R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Charles Orlando Porter D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- George Stanley Mcgovern D-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Donald Edgar Tewes R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- William Elmer Neal R-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Russell Watson Keeney R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Voted present
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
Did not vote
Other votes
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