House roll call 247 · 81st Congress · Aug 29, 1950
HR 9490. Passage.
On Aug 29, 1950, the House voted 354–20 (HR 9490). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 215–21, Republicans 144–2, Others 0–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 23 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
- 354
- No
- 20
- Did not vote
- 15
- Date
- Aug 29, 1950
By party
- Democrats215 yes · 21 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans144 yes · 2 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted no
- John Francis Shelley D-CA voted no
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- John Albert Carroll D-CO voted no
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted no
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell D-MI voted no
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- Arthur George Klein D-NY voted no
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted no
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted no
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY voted no
- Walter B. Huber D-OH voted no
- Earl Chudoff D-PA voted no
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT voted no
- Andrew John Biemiller D-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
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle 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
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Henry Marsalis D-CO
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- 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
- 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
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- 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
- Neil Joseph Linehan D-IL
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas 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
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- 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
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- John Foster Furcolo D-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
- 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
- William P. Bolton D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-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
- Dewey Jackson Short R-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
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane 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
- 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
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-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
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller 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
- James Joseph Murphy D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY
- Chester Charles Gorski D-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
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-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 Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer D-OK
- 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
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman 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
- Benjamin Franklin James R-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
- 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
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-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
- 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
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- John Jennings Jr. 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
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Ben Hugh Guill R-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- 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
- 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
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull 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
How each representative voted: No
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Emanuel Celler 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
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
Voted present
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski 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.