House roll call 155 · 81st Congress · Mar 7, 1950
HR 49. Enable the people of hawaii to form a constitution and state gov't and to be admitted to the union on an equal footing w/the original states.
On Mar 7, 1950, the House voted 261–111 (HR 49). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 151–93, Republicans 126–36, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 129 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
- 261
- No
- 111
- Did not vote
- 13
- Date
- Mar 7, 1950
By party
- Democrats151 yes · 93 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans126 yes · 36 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted no
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted no
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- James William Trimble D-AR voted no
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ voted no
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted no
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT voted no
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted no
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA voted no
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD voted no
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD voted no
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI voted no
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted no
- 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
- Carl Thomas Durham 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
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH voted no
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted no
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted no
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted no
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY voted no
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY voted no
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY voted no
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY voted no
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY voted no
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY voted no
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY voted no
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- William Sterling Cole R-NY voted no
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
And 49 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Lawrence Brooks Hays 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
- 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
- C. Norris Poulson R-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
- John Phillips R-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Henry Marsalis D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross 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
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- 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
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed 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
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-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
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- James Ellsworth Noland D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-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
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- William P. Bolton D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott 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
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Clare Magee 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
- 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
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe 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
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly 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
- 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
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-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
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- Earl Thomas Wagner D-OH
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- George Howard Wilson D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Earl Chudoff 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
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette 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
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Harry James Davenport 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
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Hugo Sheridan Sims Jr. D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- 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
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Edward Degraffenried 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
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes 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
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones 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
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- William Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague 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
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- James Butler Hare D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett 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
- 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
- Merlin Hull R-WI
Voted present
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside 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
From Voteview roll call records.
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