Inside the 'Single Most Important Vote' of Rep. John Dingell's Record-Breaking Career

The career of the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history, John David Dingell Jr., who died Thursday in his home state of Michigan at 92, was one of many votes. But out of all the votes that the Detroit-area Congressman cast during his nearly 60 years in the House of Representatives, one stood out.

His "the single most important vote" of all, he said as part of an oral-history recorded in 2012, was his yea vote for the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

The career of the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history, John David Dingell Jr., who died Thursday in his home state of Michigan at 92, was one of many votes. But out of all the votes that the Detroit-area Congressman cast during his nearly 60 years in the House of Representatives, one stood out. His "the single most important vote" of all, he said as part of an oral-history recorded in 2012, was his yea vote for the Civil Rights Act in 1964.