House roll call 66 · 80th Congress · Jul 17, 1947
HR 1639. Amend the employers' liablility act so as to limit venue in actions brought in U.S. District courts or in state courts under such act. On passage.
On Jul 17, 1947, the House voted 203–188 (HR 1639). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 120–107, Democrats 88–85, Others 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 192 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
- 203
- No
- 188
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Jul 17, 1947
By party
- Democrats88 yes · 85 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans120 yes · 107 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James William Trimble D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Clair Engle D-CA voted no
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA voted no
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted no
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted no
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted no
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA voted no
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA voted no
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA voted no
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA voted no
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted no
- Donald Lester Jackson R-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
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted no
- Ellsworth Bishop Foote R-CT voted no
- John Davis Lodge R-CT voted no
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted no
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT voted no
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL voted no
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL voted no
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted no
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID voted no
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
- Richard Bernard Vail R-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 Leonard Owens R-IL voted no
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted no
- Robert Joseph Twyman R-IL voted no
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- William Grant Stratton R-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN voted no
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- Wendell Howes Meade R-KY voted no
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY voted no
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted no
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted no
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
- George Joseph Bates R-MA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted no
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA voted no
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA voted no
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted no
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted no
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD voted no
- James Glenn Beall R-MD voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted no
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME voted no
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted no
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted no
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI voted no
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI voted no
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted no
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI voted no
And 112 more.
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
- 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
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-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
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- Emory Hilliard Price 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
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Abe McGregor Goff R-ID
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- George Evan Howell 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
- Edward Archibald Mitchell R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- 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
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Hugh Allen Meade D-MD
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Howard Aldridge Coffin R-MI
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- 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
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle 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 Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- David Matthew Potts R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber 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
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Henderson Haverfield Carson R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- 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
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- James A. Gallagher R-PA
- Franklin John Maloney 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
- William Josiah Crow R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- 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
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague 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
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- 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
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe 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
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- James William Trimble D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- 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 Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Leonard Owens R-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Robert Joseph Twyman R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- William Grant Stratton R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Wendell Howes Meade R-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Harold Francis Youngblood R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- 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
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- Albert Lee Reeves Jr. R-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Parke Monroe Banta R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten 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
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- 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
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Georgia Lee Lusk D-NM
- Charles Hinton Russell R-NV
- Gregory Mcmahon R-NY
- Robert Joseph Nodar Jr. R-NY
- 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
- 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
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Raymond Hugh Burke R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Robert Neill Mcgarvey R-PA
- George William Sarbacher Jr. R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- James Paul Scoblick R-PA
- Mitchell Jenkins R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-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
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Homer Raymond Jones R-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- John Charles Brophy R-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Voted present
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- E. Wallace Chadwick R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- John Kee D-WV
Did not vote
- Ralph Harvey R-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
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Leo Isacson O-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Fred Barthold Norman R-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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