To agree to H. RES. 126, a resolution dismissing the contest of election of richard l. Ottinger.

On Jan 19, 1965, the House voted 245–102 (HRES 126). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 246–2, Republicans 5–106. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 7 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: 245
No: 102
Did not vote: 83
Date: Jan 19, 1965

By party

Democrats246 yes · 2 no · 52 didn’t vote
Republicans5 yes · 106 no · 31 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Durward Gorham Hall R-MO voted yes
Prentiss Lafayette Walker R-MS voted yes
Seymour Halpern R-NY voted yes
William Fitts Ryan D-NY voted no
Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted yes
John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted yes
Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
William Louis Dickinson R-AL
Arthur Glenn Andrews R-AL
John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
James Douglas Martin R-AL
John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
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
James Boyd Utt R-CA
Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
Edward John Gurney R-FL
William Cato Cramer R-FL
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
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
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
Hastings Keith R-MA
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
Ancher Nelsen R-MN
Clark Macgregor R-MN
Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
James Franklin Battin R-MT
James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
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
William Beck Widnall R-NJ
James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
William Fitts Ryan D-NY
Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
Robert Cameron Mcewen 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
William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
Clarence J. Brown R-OH
Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
John William Stanton R-OH
Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
Page Henry Belcher R-OK
Wendell Wyatt R-OR
Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-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
Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
James Grove Fulton R-PA
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
James Henry Quillen R-TN
John James Duncan R-TN
William Emerson Brock III R-TN
Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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