House roll call 55 · 88th Congress · Aug 6, 1963
H.R. 4955. Passage.
On Aug 6, 1963, the House voted 378–21 (HR 4955). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 224–12, Republicans 154–9. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 21 members voted against their own party.
During the 88th Congress (1963–1964), John F. Kennedy was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 378
- No
- 21
- Did not vote
- 10
- Date
- Aug 6, 1963
By party
- Democrats224 yes · 12 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Republicans154 yes · 9 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- Edward John Gurney R-FL voted no
- Donald Cogley Bruce R-IN voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Gillis William Long D-LA voted no
- Ralph Frederick Beermann R-NE voted no
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
- Albert William Watson 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
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX voted no
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX voted no
- Joe Richard Pool D-TX voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- George Frederick Senner Jr. D-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Ronald Brooks Cameron D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Everett Glen Burkhalter D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patrick Minor Martin R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Bernard Francis Grabowski D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Charles Longstreet Weltner D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- James Russell Tuten D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Thomas Ponce Gill D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- James Edward Bromwell R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White Jr. D-ID
- Ralph R. Harding D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Edward Rowan Finnegan D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Thaddeus Mcloskey R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long 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
- Carlton Ralph Sickles D-MD
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg 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
- Neil Oliver Staebler D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Alec Gehard Olson D-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Arnold Olsen D-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
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Don Levingston Short R-ND
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- 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
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler 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
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid 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
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Carl West Rich R-OH
- 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
- Homer E. Abele R-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow 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
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- 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
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Herman Toll D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Dorman Weaver R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy 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
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing 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
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-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
- K. William Stinson R-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
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George William Andrews D-AL
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Edward John Gurney R-FL
- Donald Cogley Bruce R-IN
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Ralph Frederick Beermann R-NE
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Albert William Watson D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Joe Richard Pool D-TX
Voted present
- James William Trimble D-AR
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- George Meader R-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- 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
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Did not vote
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Hjalmar Carl Nygaard R-ND
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Irene Bailey Baker R-TN
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.