House roll call 99 · 77th Congress · Mar 11, 1942
To pass H. RES. 420, continuing the authorization and powers of the special committee to investigate UN-american activities.
On Mar 11, 1942, the House voted 331–46 (HRE 420). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 183–43, Republicans 146–3, Others 4–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 46 members voted against their own party.
During the 77th Congress (1941–1942), Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 331
- No
- 46
- Did not vote
- 27
- Date
- Mar 11, 1942
By party
- Democrats183 yes · 43 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Republicans146 yes · 3 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Others4 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA voted no
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT voted no
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT voted no
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT voted no
- Le Roy Donnelly Downs D-CT voted no
- Lucien John Maciora D-CT voted no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted no
- Anton Frank Maciejewski D-IL voted no
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN voted no
- Thomas Hopkinson Eliot D-MA voted no
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI voted no
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski D-MI voted no
- Richard Pillsbury Gale R-MN voted no
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC voted no
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY voted no
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY voted no
- Arthur George Klein D-NY voted no
- William Townsend Pheiffer R-NY voted no
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY voted no
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted no
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY voted no
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted no
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH voted no
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR voted no
- Leon Sacks D-PA voted no
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA voted no
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA voted no
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA voted no
- Thomas Edward Scanlon D-PA voted no
- Samuel Arthur Weiss D-PA voted no
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
- James Assion Wright D-PA voted no
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI voted no
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT voted no
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA voted no
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA voted no
- Knute Hill D-WA voted no
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA voted no
- John Main Coffee D-WA voted no
- John Kee D-WV voted no
- John Joseph Mcintyre D-WY voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Clyde Taylor Ellis D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Thomas Rolph R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Leland Merritt Ford R-CA
- William Ward Johnson R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- George Arthur Paddock R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- William Howard Wheat R-IL
- James Martin Barnes D-IL
- James Vandaveer Heidinger R-IL
- Stephen Albion Day R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- Jared Young Sanders Jr. D-LA
- Vance Gabriel Plauché D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- David Jenkins Ward D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- John Ambrose Meyer D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Oscar Ferdinand Youngdahl R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Philip Allen Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Jeannette Rankin R-MT
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Oren Sturman Copeland R-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Foster Waterman Stearns R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Louis Joseph Capozzoli D-NY
- Michael Joseph Kennedy D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Joseph John O'Brien R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Greg John Holbrock D-OH
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Jacob Erastus Davis D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Francis Raphael Smith D-PA
- Francis John Myers D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- James Percy Priest O-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Winder Russell Harris D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski D-WI
- Lewis Dominic Thill R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Joshua Leroy Johns R-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- Le Roy Donnelly Downs D-CT
- Lucien John Maciora D-CT
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Anton Frank Maciejewski D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Thomas Hopkinson Eliot D-MA
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Richard Pillsbury Gale R-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- William Townsend Pheiffer R-NY
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Thomas Edward Scanlon D-PA
- Samuel Arthur Weiss D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- James Assion Wright D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- John Kee D-WV
- John Joseph Mcintyre D-WY
Voted present
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- William Grant Stratton R-IL
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Katharine Edgar Byron D-MD
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Albert Lincoln Vreeland R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
Did not vote
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Walter Will Bankhead D-AL
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Lee Edward Geyer D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- Harry Elsworth Narey R-IA
- Charles Schuveldt Dewey R-IL
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- William Devereux Byron D-MD
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- Alonzo Dillard Folger D-NC
- Morris Michael Edelstein D-NY
- Kenneth Farrand Simpson R-NY
- Pius Louis Schwert D-NY
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Veronica Grace Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- Thomas Byron Miller R-PA
- Albert Greig Rutherford R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Joseph A. Mcardle D-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. D-VA
- Stephen Bolles R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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