House roll call 159 · 79th Congress · May 13, 1946
S J RES 159. On passage.
On May 13, 1946, the House voted 280–84 (SJRE 159). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 178–22, Republicans 106–64, Others 0–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 86 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
- 280
- No
- 84
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- May 13, 1946
By party
- Democrats178 yes · 22 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Republicans106 yes · 64 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA voted no
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA voted no
- Ellis Ellwood Patterson D-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO voted no
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted no
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO voted no
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted no
- John Williams Gwynne 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
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID voted no
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID voted no
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted no
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL voted no
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
- Jessie Sumner R-IL voted no
- Roy Clippinger R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN voted no
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted no
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA voted no
- James Glenn Beall R-MD voted no
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted no
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI voted no
- Frank Eugene Hook 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
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO voted no
- Max Schwabe R-MO voted no
- William Clay Cole R-MO voted no
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO voted no
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND voted no
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE voted no
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted no
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted no
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-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
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted no
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH voted no
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH voted no
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH voted no
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH voted no
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH voted no
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH voted no
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted no
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
- George Harrison Bender R-OH voted no
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK voted no
- Lowell Stockman R-OR voted no
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA voted no
- Daniel John Flood D-PA voted no
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA voted no
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT voted no
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT voted no
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA voted no
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA voted no
- John Main Coffee D-WA voted no
And 6 more.
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
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- 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
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- William Silas Hill 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
- 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
- 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
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- 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
- Alexander John Resa D-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen 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
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner 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
- Emmet O'Neal 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
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-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
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- William James Gallagher D-MN
- Frank Thomas Starkey D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-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
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- 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
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Samuel James Ervin Jr. D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Sherman Adams R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Berkeley Lloyd Bunker D-NV
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- James A. Roe 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
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- James H. Torrens D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Peter Anthony Quinn D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- John Taber 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
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- 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
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- John William Murphy D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- David Emmert Brumbaugh R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Howard Edmond Campbell 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
- 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
- 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
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Jennings Randolph 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
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Ellis Ellwood Patterson D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook 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
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Robert Kirkland Henry R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Voted present
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Augustus Witschief Bennet R-NY
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- Ralph Hunter Daughton D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski D-WI
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey 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
- 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.
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