House roll call 113 · 81st Congress · Oct 6, 1949
HR 3734. Appropriations for civil functions administered by the dept. Of the army. Adoption of conference report.
On Oct 6, 1949, the House voted 269–18 (HR 3734). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 175–4, Republicans 94–14. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 18 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
- 269
- No
- 18
- Did not vote
- 13
- Date
- Oct 6, 1949
By party
- Democrats175 yes · 4 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans94 yes · 14 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL voted no
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME voted no
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- William Lemke R-ND voted no
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted no
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX voted no
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI voted no
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI voted no
- John William Byrnes R-WI voted no
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
- Albert McKinley Rains 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
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-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
- John Andrew Mcguire D-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
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- George Armistead Smathers 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
- 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
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- 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
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Thurman Charles Crook D-IN
- Edward H. Kruse D-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- James Ellsworth Noland D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-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
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen 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
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Raymond Willard Karst D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin 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
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Robert Howell D-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
- 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
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY
- Earl Thomas Wagner D-OH
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- William Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer D-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- George Howard Wilson D-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Harry James Davenport D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-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
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Patton Sutton 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
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton 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
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
Voted present
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Richard Walsh D-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- William P. Bolton D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-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
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- James Joseph Murphy D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. O-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Harley Orrin Staggers 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
From Voteview roll call records.
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