House roll call 43 · 79th Congress · May 26, 1945
HR 3240. On passage.
On May 26, 1945, the House voted 239–153 (HR 3240). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 215–13, Republicans 33–151, Others 1–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 46 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
- 239
- No
- 153
- Did not vote
- 14
- Date
- May 26, 1945
By party
- Democrats215 yes · 13 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans33 yes · 151 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted no
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA voted no
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA voted yes
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT voted yes
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted no
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL voted no
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL voted yes
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN voted yes
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS voted yes
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted yes
- James Domengeaux D-LA voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted yes
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted no
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME voted yes
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI voted yes
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI voted yes
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO voted yes
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted yes
- Sherman Adams R-NH voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ voted yes
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ voted yes
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ voted yes
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ voted yes
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ voted yes
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted yes
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY voted yes
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY voted yes
- Augustus Witschief Bennet R-NY voted yes
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY voted yes
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH voted yes
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH voted yes
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR voted yes
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
- James Grove Fulton R-PA voted yes
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI voted no
- Milton Horace West D-TX voted no
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted no
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT voted no
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI voted yes
- Jennings Randolph D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick 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
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Harvey Tolan 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
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT
- Joseph Francis Ryter D-CT
- Emory Hilliard Price 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
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck 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
- Compton Ignatius White D-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
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Emily Taft Douglas D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope 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
- Paul Herbert Maloney 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
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Dudley George Roe D-MD
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney 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
- William James Gallagher D-MN
- Frank Thomas Starkey D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- 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
- John Joseph Cochran D-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
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Joseph Wilson Ervin D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Sherman Adams R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-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
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- James H. Torrens D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Peter Anthony Quinn D-NY
- Augustus Witschief Bennet R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- George Frederick Rogers D-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Edward Joseph Gardner D-OH
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-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
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Homer Daniel Angell 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
- John William Murphy D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-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
- Samuel Arthur Weiss D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand 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
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore 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
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield 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
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- 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
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott 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
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- 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
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Ralph Edwin Church 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
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop 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
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- 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
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman 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
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-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
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess 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
- 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
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-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
- 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
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Robert Kirkland Henry R-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
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Berkeley Lloyd Bunker D-NV
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- Harold Henderson Earthman D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- 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.