House roll call 18 · 80th Congress · Mar 20, 1947
HR 2413. Amend the federal reserve act. On passage.
On Mar 20, 1947, the House voted 308–55 (HR 2413). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 166–53, Democrats 142–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 55 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
- 308
- No
- 55
- Did not vote
- 17
- Date
- Mar 20, 1947
By party
- Democrats142 yes · 2 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans166 yes · 53 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Clair Engle D-CA voted no
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO voted no
- Thomas Leonard Owens R-IL voted no
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted no
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL voted no
- Roy Clippinger R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY voted no
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen 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
- Albert Lee Reeves Jr. R-MO voted no
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO voted no
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- William Lemke R-ND voted no
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE voted no
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE voted no
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted no
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted no
- Gregory Mcmahon R-NY voted no
- Robert Joseph Nodar Jr. R-NY voted no
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY voted no
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY voted no
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH voted no
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH voted no
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH voted no
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH voted no
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH voted no
- John Martin Vorys R-OH voted no
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH voted no
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH voted no
- George Harrison Bender R-OH voted no
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK voted no
- Robert Neill Mcgarvey R-PA voted no
- Franklin John Maloney R-PA voted no
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA voted no
- James Paul Scoblick R-PA voted no
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA voted no
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted no
- William Josiah Crow R-PA voted no
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA voted no
- Harve Tibbott R-PA voted no
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA voted no
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI voted no
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI voted no
- John William Byrnes R-WI voted no
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV voted no
The bill
H.R. 2413: To amend the Federal Reserve Act, and for other purposes
How each representative voted: Yes
- 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
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-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
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Willis Winter Bradley R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Charles Kimball Fletcher R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth 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
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham 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
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Robert Joseph Twyman R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison 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
- William Grant Stratton R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- 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
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole 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
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Wendell Howes Meade R-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Hugh Allen Meade D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Howard Aldridge Coffin R-MI
- Harold Francis Youngblood R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- George Edward Mackinnon R-MN
- Edward James Devitt R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Parke Monroe Banta R-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- William Madison Whittington 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
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-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
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Charles Hinton Russell R-NV
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- David Matthew Potts 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
- Clarence Evans Kilburn 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
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Raymond Hugh Burke R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- Henderson Haverfield Carson R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Glen Dale Johnson D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Preston Elmer Peden D-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
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- George William Sarbacher Jr. R-PA
- E. Wallace Chadwick 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
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- 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
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins 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
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Homer Raymond Jones R-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Fred Barthold Norman R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- John Charles Brophy R-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Francis Johnson Love R-WV
- Melvin Claude Snyder R-WV
- Edward Gay Rohrbough R-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- Thomas Leonard Owens R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen 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
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Gregory Mcmahon R-NY
- Robert Joseph Nodar Jr. R-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-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
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Robert Neill Mcgarvey R-PA
- Franklin John Maloney R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- James Paul Scoblick R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin 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
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Georgia Lee Lusk D-NM
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- James A. Gallagher R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- Mitchell Jenkins R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Merlin Hull R-WI
Did not vote
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- William Lewis R-KY
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Leo Isacson O-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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