House roll call 229 · 81st Congress · Aug 14, 1950
On motion to adjourn.
On Aug 14, 1950, the House voted 48–274. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 47–155, Republicans 1–119. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 48 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
- 48
- No
- 274
- Did not vote
- 15
- Date
- Aug 14, 1950
By party
- Democrats47 yes · 155 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans1 yes · 119 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- George William Andrews D-AL voted yes
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- James William Trimble D-AR voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted yes
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted yes
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted yes
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted yes
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted yes
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted yes
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA voted yes
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted yes
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted yes
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC voted yes
- John Taber R-NY voted yes
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted yes
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC voted yes
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted yes
- Jere Cooper D-TN voted yes
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX voted yes
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted yes
- Albert Thomas D-TX voted yes
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX voted yes
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted yes
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX voted yes
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX voted yes
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted yes
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX voted yes
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted yes
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA voted yes
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA voted yes
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA voted yes
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted yes
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA voted yes
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA voted yes
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted yes
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- John Taber R-NY
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- 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
- Boyd Anderson Tackett 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
- 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
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-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
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin 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
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- William Levi Dawson 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
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison 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
- James Ellsworth Noland 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
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- 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
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- William P. Bolton D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- 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
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Raymond Willard Karst D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-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
- 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
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-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
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- Earl Thomas Wagner D-OH
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-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 Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer D-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- George Howard Wilson D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Harry James Davenport D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-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
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Ben Hugh Guill R-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- 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
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- John William Byrnes 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
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Voted present
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- John Richard Walsh D-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Clare Magee D-MO
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. O-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- James Butler Hare D-SC
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Did not vote
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- 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
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.