House roll call 149 · 79th Congress · Apr 18, 1946
HR 6042. On passage.
On Apr 18, 1946, the House voted 356–42 (HR 6042). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 206–8, Republicans 148–34, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 42 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
- 356
- No
- 42
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- Apr 18, 1946
By party
- Democrats206 yes · 8 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Republicans148 yes · 34 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted no
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Jessie Sumner R-IL voted no
- Roy Clippinger R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- Dudley George Roe D-MD voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN voted no
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted no
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO voted no
- Max Schwabe R-MO voted no
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND voted no
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE voted no
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted no
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted no
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY voted no
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH voted no
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH voted no
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH voted no
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH voted no
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH voted no
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK voted no
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK voted no
- Lowell Stockman R-OR voted no
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA voted no
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA voted no
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA voted no
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA voted no
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA voted no
- Milton Horace West D-TX voted no
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless 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
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Ellis Ellwood Patterson D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT
- Joseph Francis Ryter D-CT
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Helen Douglas Mankin D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Paul Brown 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
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- 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
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Emily Taft Douglas D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- 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
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf 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
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Charles Edgar Mckenzie D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer 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
- 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
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- William James Gallagher D-MN
- Frank Thomas Starkey D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-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
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Samuel James Ervin Jr. D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- 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
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan 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
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- James H. Torrens D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Peter Anthony Quinn D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Augustus Witschief Bennet R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- George Frederick Rogers D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. 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
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan 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
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-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
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Herbert Joseph Mcglinchey D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- John William Murphy D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- David Emmert Brumbaugh R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Howard Edmond Campbell R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley 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
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Harold Henderson Earthman D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray 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
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Ralph Hunter Daughton 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
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Dudley George Roe D-MD
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
Voted present
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Berkeley Lloyd Bunker D-NV
- James A. Roe D-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Kirkland Henry R-WI
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
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Joseph Wilson Ervin D-NC
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM
- 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.