To recommit S. 1564, the 1965 voting rights act with instructions to delete the boggs-long amendment.

On Aug 3, 1965, the House voted 118–284 (S 1564). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 3–269, Republicans 116–16. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 19 members voted against their own party.

During the 89th Congress (1965–1966), Lyndon B. Johnson was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 118
No: 284
Did not vote: 38
Date: Aug 3, 1965

By party

Democrats3 yes · 269 no · 28 didn’t vote
Republicans116 yes · 16 no · 10 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL voted no
William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted no
Arthur Glenn Andrews R-AL voted no
John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted no
James Douglas Martin R-AL voted no
James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
William Cato Cramer R-FL voted no
Howard Hollis (Bo) Callaway R-GA voted no
Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN voted yes
Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted yes
Prentiss Lafayette Walker R-MS voted no
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted no
James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted no
Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY voted no
Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted yes
Page Henry Belcher R-OK voted no
William Emerson Brock III R-TN voted no
Richard Harding Poff R-VA voted no
Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA voted no

The bill

S. 1564: A bill to enforce the 15th amendment to the Constitution of the United States

How each representative voted: Yes

John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
William Somers Mailliard R-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
H. Allen Smith R-CA
Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
Edwin Reinecke R-CA
Alphonzo Bell R-CA
Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
Edward John Gurney R-FL
Harold Royce Gross R-IA
George Vernon Hansen R-ID
Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
Robert Mcclory R-IL
Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
John Bayard Anderson R-IL
Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
Robert Henry Michel R-IL
Paul Findley R-IL
William Lee Springer R-IL
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
William Gilmer Bray R-IN
Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
Ralph Harvey R-IN
Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
Chester Louis Mize R-KS
Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS
Garner E. Shriver R-KS
Joe Skubitz R-KS
Tim Lee Carter R-KY
Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
William Henry Bates R-MA
Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
Hastings Keith R-MA
Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
James Harvey R-MI
Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
William S. Broomfield R-MI
Albert Harold Quie R-MN
Clark Macgregor R-MN
Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
Mark Andrews R-ND
Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
David Thomas Martin R-NE
James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
William Beck Widnall R-NJ
James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
Seymour Halpern R-NY
Paul Albert Fino R-NY
Carleton James King R-NY
Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
Alexander Pirnie R-NY
Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
Henry P. Smith III R-NY
Donald Daniel Clancy 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
John William Stanton 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
John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
Wendell Wyatt R-OR
George Robert Watkins R-PA
Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
John Irving Whalley R-PA
Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
John Crain Kunkel R-PA
Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
Robert James Corbett R-PA
John Phillips Saylor R-PA
Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
James Grove Fulton R-PA
Benjamin Reifel R-SD
James Henry Quillen R-TN
John James Duncan R-TN
Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
Catherine Dean May R-WA
Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “To recommit S. 1564, the 1965 voting rights…: House Vote, Aug 3, 1965,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/89-H-106/to-recommit-s-1564-the-1965-voting-rights-act (accessed 2026-10-15).