House roll call 41 · 79th Congress · May 15, 1945
HR 387. Amend section 401 (a) of the nationality act of 1940. On committee recommendation that the enacting clause be striken out.
On May 15, 1945, the House voted 177–157 (HR 387). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 80–95, Republicans 97–62, Others 1–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 142 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
- 177
- No
- 157
- Did not vote
- 14
- Date
- May 15, 1945
By party
- Democrats80 yes · 95 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans97 yes · 62 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted yes
- Carter Manasco D-AL voted yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- James William Trimble D-AR voted yes
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR voted yes
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted yes
- Oren Harris D-AR voted yes
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ voted yes
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA voted no
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA voted yes
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted yes
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA voted yes
- William Silas Hill R-CO voted no
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted no
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT voted no
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT voted no
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted yes
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted yes
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted yes
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA voted yes
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted yes
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA voted yes
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted yes
- Paul Brown D-GA voted yes
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- George Evan Howell R-IL voted no
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted no
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted yes
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted yes
- Earle C. Clements D-KY voted yes
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted yes
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted yes
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY voted yes
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA voted yes
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted yes
- Charles Edgar Mckenzie D-LA voted yes
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA voted yes
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted yes
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA voted no
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA voted no
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted no
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted no
- Dudley George Roe D-MD voted yes
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD voted yes
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted yes
- James Glenn Beall R-MD voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted no
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME voted no
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI voted no
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted no
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted no
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO voted yes
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT voted yes
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted yes
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted yes
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted yes
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted yes
- Joseph Wilson Ervin D-NC voted yes
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC voted yes
And 62 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- 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
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Charles Edgar Mckenzie D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Dudley George Roe D-MD
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- 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
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan 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
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Joseph Wilson Ervin D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- George Frederick Rogers D-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- 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
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-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
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- David Emmert Brumbaugh R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Howard Edmond Campbell R-PA
- 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
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ralph Hunter Daughton D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Robert Kirkland Henry R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Ellis Ellwood Patterson D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth 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
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- William A. Rowan D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- William Walter Link D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Alexander John Resa D-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- 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
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien 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
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Sherman Adams R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers 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
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- James H. Torrens D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Peter Anthony Quinn D-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
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- Edward Joseph Gardner D-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Herbert Joseph Mcglinchey D-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-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
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-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
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Emily Taft Douglas D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Berkeley Lloyd Bunker D-NV
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- James A. Roe D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Augustus Witschief Bennet R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John William Murphy D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Samuel Arthur Weiss D-PA
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Harold Henderson Earthman D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA
Did not vote
- Helen Douglas Mankin D-GA
- James Vandaveer Heidinger R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Eliza Jane Pratt D-NC
- Samuel James Ervin Jr. D-NC
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Carl Henry Hoffman R-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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