House roll call 150 · 80th Congress · Jun 16, 1948
HR 6355. Passage over the President's veto.
On Jun 16, 1948, the House voted 288–113 (HR 6355). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 229–1, Democrats 59–110, Others 0–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 60 members voted against their own party.
During the 80th Congress (1947–1948), Harry S. Truman was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 288
- No
- 113
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Jun 16, 1948
By party
- Democrats59 yes · 110 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans229 yes · 1 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR voted yes
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted yes
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted yes
- Oren Harris D-AR voted yes
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ voted yes
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted no
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA voted yes
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted yes
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL voted yes
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted yes
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted yes
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted yes
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted yes
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted yes
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted yes
- Paul Brown D-GA voted yes
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA voted yes
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA voted yes
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted yes
- Hugh Allen Meade D-MD voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted yes
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted yes
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted yes
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC voted yes
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC voted yes
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM voted yes
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted yes
- John Jacob Riley D-SC voted yes
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted yes
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC voted yes
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC voted yes
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted yes
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted yes
- Jere Cooper D-TN voted yes
- Clifford Davis D-TN voted yes
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX voted yes
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX voted yes
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX voted yes
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted yes
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX voted yes
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX voted yes
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted yes
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX voted yes
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted yes
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX voted yes
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted yes
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA voted yes
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA voted yes
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA voted yes
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted yes
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA voted yes
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA voted yes
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted yes
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Willis Winter Bradley R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Charles Kimball Fletcher R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Ellsworth Bishop Foote R-CT
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler 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
- 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
- Abe McGregor Goff R-ID
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Robert Joseph Twyman R-IL
- 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
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- William Grant Stratton 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
- Edward Archibald Mitchell R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Wendell Howes Meade R-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman 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
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Hugh Allen Meade D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale 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
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Howard Aldridge Coffin R-MI
- Harold Francis Youngblood R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- George Edward Mackinnon R-MN
- Edward James Devitt R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-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 Lee Reeves Jr. R-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Parke Monroe Banta R-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton 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
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Charles Hinton Russell R-NV
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Gregory Mcmahon R-NY
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- Robert Joseph Nodar Jr. R-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- David Matthew Potts R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George 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
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-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
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Raymond Hugh Burke R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen 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
- Henderson Haverfield Carson 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
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- James A. Gallagher R-PA
- Robert Neill Mcgarvey R-PA
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Franklin John Maloney R-PA
- George William Sarbacher Jr. R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- E. Wallace Chadwick R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Mitchell Jenkins R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- William Josiah Crow R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Homer Raymond Jones R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- John Charles Brophy R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Francis Johnson Love R-WV
- Melvin Claude Snyder R-WV
- Edward Gay Rohrbough R-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- 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
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Georgia Lee Lusk D-NM
- 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
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Leo Isacson O-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- William Lewis R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Glen Dale Johnson D-OK
- Preston Elmer Peden D-OK
- James Paul Scoblick R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
Did not vote
- Thomas Leonard Owens R-IL
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
- Fred Barthold Norman R-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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