House roll call 117 · 79th Congress · Feb 26, 1946
HR 3603. Provide for the sale of surplus war-built vessels. Adoption of conference report.
On Feb 26, 1946, the House voted 233–115 (HR 3603). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 139–47, Republicans 94–66, Others 0–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 113 members voted against their own party.
During the 79th Congress (1945–1946), Harry S. Truman was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 233
- No
- 115
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- Feb 26, 1946
By party
- Democrats139 yes · 47 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Republicans94 yes · 66 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ voted no
- George Elmer Outland D-CA voted no
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA voted no
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA voted no
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted no
- Ellis Ellwood Patterson D-CA voted no
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT voted no
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted no
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA voted no
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted no
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID voted no
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL voted no
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL voted no
- Jessie Sumner R-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN voted no
- George W. Gillie R-IN voted no
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN voted no
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- Earle C. Clements D-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted no
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA voted no
- George Joseph Bates R-MA voted no
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA voted no
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted no
- Frank Fellows R-ME voted no
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI voted no
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted no
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI voted no
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI voted no
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- Harold Knutson R-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN voted no
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted no
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO voted no
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS voted no
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE voted no
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE voted no
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted no
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted no
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted no
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted no
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH voted no
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH voted no
- Walter B. Huber D-OH voted no
And 33 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT
- Joseph Francis Ryter D-CT
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Helen Douglas Mankin D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- William A. Rowan D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- William Walter Link D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Alexander John Resa D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Emily Taft Douglas D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Charles Edgar Mckenzie D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Dudley George Roe D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- William James Gallagher D-MN
- Frank Thomas Starkey D-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Samuel James Ervin Jr. D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Sherman Adams R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- James A. Roe D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- James H. Torrens D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Augustus Witschief Bennet R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- George Frederick Rogers D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Edward Joseph Gardner D-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- John William Murphy D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- David Emmert Brumbaugh R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Howard Edmond Campbell R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Ellis Ellwood Patterson D-CA
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Harold Henderson Earthman D-TN
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Robert Kirkland Henry R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Berkeley Lloyd Bunker D-NV
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Peter Anthony Quinn D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Herbert Joseph Mcglinchey D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Ralph Hunter Daughton D-VA
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
Did not vote
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- James Vandaveer Heidinger R-IL
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Eliza Jane Pratt D-NC
- Joseph Wilson Ervin D-NC
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Carl Henry Hoffman R-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Samuel Arthur Weiss D-PA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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