House roll call 27 · 80th Congress · Apr 17, 1947
HR 3020. Passage.
On Apr 17, 1947, the House voted 308–107 (HR 3020). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 217–24, Democrats 95–86, Others 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 110 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
- 107
- Did not vote
- 17
- Date
- Apr 17, 1947
By party
- Democrats95 yes · 86 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans217 yes · 24 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted no
- Carter Manasco D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted no
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ voted no
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ voted no
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted no
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted no
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted no
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA voted no
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted no
- John Albert Carroll D-CO voted no
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted no
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL voted no
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA voted no
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
- Martin Gorski D-IL voted no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted no
- Robert Joseph Twyman R-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- Earle C. Clements D-KY voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- Wendell Howes Meade R-KY voted no
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY voted no
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA 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
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD voted no
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted no
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI voted no
- John David Dingell D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski D-MI voted no
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted no
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC voted no
- William Lemke R-ND voted no
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted no
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted no
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ voted no
- Charles Hinton Russell R-NV 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
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-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
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY voted no
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY voted no
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY voted no
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY voted no
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH voted no
- Walter B. Huber D-OH voted no
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted no
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted no
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
- William Grady Stigler D-OK voted no
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK voted no
- Glen Dale Johnson D-OK voted no
And 30 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman 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
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler 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
- Thomas Leonard Owens 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
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Roy Clippinger 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
- 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
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert 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
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden 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
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- 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
- 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
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Georgia Lee Lusk D-NM
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Preston Elmer Peden D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman 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
- 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
- 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
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- John Jennings Jr. R-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
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson 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
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday 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
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Fred Barthold Norman R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Francis Johnson Love R-WV
- Edward Gay Rohrbough R-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-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
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- 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
- Robert Joseph Twyman R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Wendell Howes Meade R-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Charles Hinton Russell R-NV
- 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
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-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
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- James Paul Scoblick R-PA
- Mitchell Jenkins R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- 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
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Homer Raymond Jones R-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- John Charles Brophy R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Melvin Claude Snyder R-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Voted present
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.