House roll call 268 · 81st Congress · Dec 7, 1950
HR 9763. Passage.
On Dec 7, 1950, the House voted 221–152 (HR 9763). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 195–37, Republicans 33–124, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 70 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
- 221
- No
- 152
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- Dec 7, 1950
By party
- Democrats195 yes · 37 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans33 yes · 124 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ voted no
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA voted yes
- John Davis Lodge R-CT voted yes
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted yes
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE voted yes
- George Armistead Smathers 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
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted no
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted yes
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted yes
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA voted yes
- William P. Bolton D-MD voted no
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted yes
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted yes
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC voted no
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC voted no
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC voted no
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ voted yes
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted yes
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted yes
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY voted yes
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted yes
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY voted yes
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY voted yes
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY voted yes
- William Sterling Cole R-NY voted yes
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY voted yes
- William Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer D-OK voted no
- Hardie Scott R-PA voted yes
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA voted yes
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA voted yes
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
- James Grove Fulton R-PA voted yes
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN voted yes
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX voted no
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted no
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX voted no
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX voted no
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX voted no
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX voted no
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted no
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX voted no
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted no
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA voted no
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA voted no
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA voted yes
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI voted yes
- Merlin Hull R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews 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
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- John Albert Carroll 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 Thomas Patterson R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Neil Joseph Linehan D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-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
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. 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
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-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
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Raymond Willard Karst D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton 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
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-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
- Henry Jepson Latham 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
- 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
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-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
- William Sterling Cole 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
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan 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
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Hardie Scott R-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
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley 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
- Hugo Sheridan Sims Jr. D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- 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
- Clifford Davis 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
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- 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
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-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
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood 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
- Richard William Hoffman 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
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- William Henry Bates R-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
- 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
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney 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
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. 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
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan 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
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Henry Marsalis D-CO
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Harry James Davenport D-PA
- James Butler Hare D-SC
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- John Kee D-WV
Did not vote
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle 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.