House roll call 193 · 87th Congress · Aug 27, 1962
S.J. RES. 29. Constitutional amendment to ban the use of poll tax as a requirement for voting in federal elections.
On Aug 27, 1962, the House voted 295–86 (SJRE 29). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 172–76, Republicans 138–16. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 92 members voted against their own party.
During the 87th Congress (1961–1962), John F. Kennedy was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 295
- No
- 86
- Did not vote
- 14
- Date
- Aug 27, 1962
By party
- Democrats172 yes · 76 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Republicans138 yes · 16 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
- Thomas Dale Alford D-AR voted no
- Catherine Dorris Norrell D-AR voted no
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted no
- George Elliott Hagan 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
- John William Davis D-GA voted no
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- James Edward Bromwell R-IA voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted no
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA voted no
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO voted no
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten 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
- James Franklin Battin R-MT voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Ralph James Scott D-NC voted no
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted no
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted no
- Don Levingston Short R-ND voted no
- Ralph Frederick Beermann R-NE voted no
- John Henry Ray R-NY voted no
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
- Corinne Boyd 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
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD voted no
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD voted no
- Louise Goff Reece R-TN voted no
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted no
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN voted no
- John William Wright Patman D-TX voted no
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX voted no
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted no
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX voted no
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted no
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX voted no
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX voted no
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX voted no
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX voted no
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX voted no
And 12 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Clement Woodnutt Miller D-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Frank Kowalski D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Daniel Ken Inouye D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Ralph R. Harding D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Edward Rowan Finnegan D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Donald Cogley Bruce R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Walter Lewis Mcvey Jr. R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Welsh Burke D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas Francis Johnson D-MD
- Daniel Baugh Brewster D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- James Harvey 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
- Harold Martin Ryan D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Hjalmar Carl Nygaard R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Milton Willits Glenn 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
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
- Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Jessica McCullough Weis R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH
- Robert Eugene Cook D-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook 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
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Edwin Russell Durno R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Herman Toll D-PA
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- William Warren Scranton R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- David Sjodahl King D-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- William Henry Harrison 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
- Thomas Dale Alford D-AR
- Catherine Dorris Norrell D-AR
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- James Edward Bromwell R-IA
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Don Levingston Short R-ND
- Ralph Frederick Beermann R-NE
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Corinne Boyd Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Louise Goff Reece R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Voted present
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Peter Hoyt Dominick R-CO
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Peter Adams Garland R-ME
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- Tom Van Horn Moorehead R-OH
- Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Morris Blaine Peterson D-UT
Did not vote
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- George O. Chambers R-IN
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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