House roll call 45 · 79th Congress · Jun 4, 1945
HR 3118. Amend section 100 of public law no. 346, 78th cong., to grant certain priorities to the VA, to facilitate the employment of personnel by the VA. On r
On Jun 4, 1945, the House voted 225–39 (HR 3118). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 110–27, Republicans 116–13, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 40 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
- 225
- No
- 39
- Did not vote
- 14
- Date
- Jun 4, 1945
By party
- Democrats110 yes · 27 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans116 yes · 13 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR voted no
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted no
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA voted no
- George Elmer Outland D-CA voted no
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA voted no
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA voted no
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT voted no
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT voted no
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted no
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted no
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI voted no
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN voted no
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC voted no
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY voted no
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY voted no
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted no
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA voted no
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA voted no
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX voted no
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA voted no
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA voted no
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA voted no
- John Main Coffee D-WA voted no
- John William Byrnes R-WI voted no
- Jennings Randolph D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Clair Engle D-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
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Ellis Ellwood Patterson D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle 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
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT
- Joseph Francis Ryter D-CT
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- John Strickland Gibson 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
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Edward Austin Kelly 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
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May 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
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Dudley George Roe D-MD
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- William James Gallagher D-MN
- Frank Thomas Starkey D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin 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
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Joseph Wilson Ervin D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Sherman Adams R-NH
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- George Frederick Rogers D-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- Edward Joseph Gardner D-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
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- John William Murphy D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Howard Edmond Campbell R-PA
- Samuel Arthur Weiss D-PA
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners 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
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Robert Kirkland Henry R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
Voted present
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- William A. Rowan D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Emily Taft Douglas D-IL
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten 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
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM
- Berkeley Lloyd Bunker D-NV
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- James A. Roe D-NY
- James 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
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Samuel Dickstein 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 Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Augustus Witschief Bennet R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett 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
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- David Emmert Brumbaugh R-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-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
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Harold Henderson Earthman D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- 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
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski D-WI
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
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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