House roll call 104 · 81st Congress · Sep 28, 1949
He 5895. Adoption of conference report.
On Sep 28, 1949, the House voted 224–109 (HR 5895). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 181–31, Republicans 54–89, Others 1–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 85 members voted against their own party.
During the 81st Congress (1949–1950), Harry S. Truman was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 224
- No
- 109
- Did not vote
- 13
- Date
- Sep 28, 1949
By party
- Democrats181 yes · 31 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans54 yes · 89 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR voted no
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA voted yes
- Clair Engle D-CA voted no
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA voted yes
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA voted no
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA voted yes
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA voted yes
- John Davis Lodge R-CT voted yes
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted yes
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT voted yes
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted no
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted yes
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted yes
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID voted no
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted no
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL voted yes
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN voted no
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS voted yes
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted yes
- James Stephen Golden R-KY voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted yes
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- George Joseph Bates R-MA voted yes
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA voted yes
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted yes
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted yes
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD voted yes
- William P. Bolton D-MD voted no
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted yes
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted no
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI voted yes
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted yes
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI voted yes
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI voted yes
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ voted yes
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ voted yes
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ voted yes
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted yes
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY voted yes
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted yes
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted no
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY voted yes
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY voted yes
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY voted yes
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY voted yes
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY voted yes
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY voted yes
- John Clay Davies D-NY voted no
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY voted yes
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY voted yes
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY voted yes
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY voted yes
- John Martin Vorys R-OH voted yes
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH voted yes
- Toby Morris D-OK voted no
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
- James Grove Fulton R-PA voted yes
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD voted yes
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN voted yes
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN voted yes
- James Patton Sutton D-TN voted no
And 5 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
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott 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
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- John Henry Marsalis D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. 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
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Neil Joseph Linehan D-IL
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Thurman Charles Crook D-IN
- Edward H. Kruse D-IN
- John Richard Walsh D-IN
- James Ellsworth Noland D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- John Foster Furcolo D-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
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Raymond Willard Karst D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Esten Miles D-NM
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. O-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY
- Earl Thomas Wagner D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- George Howard Wilson D-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Harry James Davenport D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Hugo Sheridan Sims Jr. D-SC
- James Butler Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. 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
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson 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
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- William P. Bolton D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Voted present
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- James Joseph Murphy D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- William Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
Did not vote
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Robert Lewis Coffey Jr. D-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Ben Hugh Guill R-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
Other votes
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