House roll call 153 · 81st Congress · Mar 1, 1950
HR 4846. Passage.
On Mar 1, 1950, the House voted 247–126 (HR 4846). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 198–36, Republicans 61–103, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 97 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
- 247
- No
- 126
- Did not vote
- 13
- Date
- Mar 1, 1950
By party
- Democrats198 yes · 36 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans61 yes · 103 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA voted yes
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA voted yes
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA voted yes
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA voted yes
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA voted yes
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA voted yes
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA voted yes
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA voted yes
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA voted yes
- William Silas Hill R-CO voted yes
- John Davis Lodge R-CT voted yes
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted no
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted yes
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted yes
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted yes
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA voted yes
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL voted yes
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted yes
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted yes
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted yes
- William Henry Bates R-MA voted yes
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA voted yes
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted yes
- James Glenn Beall R-MD voted yes
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME voted yes
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI voted yes
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI voted yes
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI voted yes
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI voted yes
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted yes
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC voted no
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC voted no
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted no
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC voted no
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC voted no
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted yes
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted yes
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted yes
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ voted yes
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ voted yes
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted yes
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted yes
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY voted yes
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY voted yes
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY voted yes
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH voted yes
- John Martin Vorys R-OH voted yes
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR voted yes
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA voted yes
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA voted yes
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted yes
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
And 17 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant 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
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays 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
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson 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
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Henry Marsalis D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes 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
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Neil Joseph Linehan D-IL
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-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
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- William Henry 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
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- Theodore Leonard Irving 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
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Esten Miles D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- 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
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- James Joseph Murphy D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. O-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY
- Earl Thomas Wagner D-OH
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins 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 Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-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
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- George Howard Wilson D-OK
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-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
- James Prioleau Richards 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 Percy Priest 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
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-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
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-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
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-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
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed 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
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- 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
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Voted present
- Clair Engle D-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- William P. Bolton D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- William Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer D-OK
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Did not vote
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Andrew Lawrence Somers 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
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
Other votes
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