House roll call 22 · 80th Congress · Mar 25, 1947
HR 2700. Passage.
On Mar 25, 1947, the House voted 342–40 (HR 2700). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 224–1, Democrats 124–44, Others 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 45 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
- 342
- No
- 40
- Did not vote
- 17
- Date
- Mar 25, 1947
By party
- Democrats124 yes · 44 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans224 yes · 1 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted no
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted no
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted no
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- John Albert Carroll D-CO voted no
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL voted no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted no
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA voted no
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted no
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski D-MI voted no
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted no
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted no
- Georgia Lee Lusk D-NM voted no
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY voted no
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY voted no
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY voted no
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY voted no
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY voted no
- John James Rooney D-NY voted no
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY voted no
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- Arthur George Klein D-NY voted no
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted no
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted no
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY voted no
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY voted no
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH voted no
- Walter B. Huber D-OH voted no
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted no
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK voted no
- Glen Dale Johnson D-OK voted no
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA voted no
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA voted no
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
- Frank Buchanan D-PA voted no
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI voted no
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews 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
- William Fadjo Cravens 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
- Clair Engle D-CA
- 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
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Willis Winter Bradley R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-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
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers 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
- 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
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Leonard Owens R-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Robert Joseph Twyman R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church 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
- George Evan Howell 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
- George W. Gillie 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
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- 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
- John Marshall Robsion R-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
- 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
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-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
- 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
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Howard Aldridge Coffin R-MI
- Harold Francis Youngblood R-MI
- John David Dingell D-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
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Albert Lee Reeves Jr. R-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Parke Monroe Banta R-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-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
- 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
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- 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
- 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
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- 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
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn 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
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown 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
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- William Grady Stigler 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
- 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
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- James Paul Scoblick 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
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-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
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- 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
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason 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
- Walter Keil Granger D-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
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- 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
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Francis Johnson Love R-WV
- Melvin Claude Snyder R-WV
- Edward Gay Rohrbough R-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Mary Teresa Norton 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
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel 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
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Glen Dale Johnson D-OK
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
Voted present
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- Mitchell Jenkins R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Homer Raymond Jones R-WA
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski 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.