House roll call 271 · 81st Congress · Dec 20, 1950
HR 9798. Passage.
On Dec 20, 1950, the House voted 247–1 (HR 9798). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 158–0, Republicans 89–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 1 member 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
- 1
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- Dec 20, 1950
By party
- Democrats158 yes · 0 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans89 yes · 1 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
The bill
H.R. 9798: To authorize a Federal civil defense program, and for other purposes
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs 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
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-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 Caleb Boggs R-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- Neil Joseph Linehan 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
- 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
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman 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
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-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
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- 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
- 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
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case 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
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Esten Miles D-NM
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh 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
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown 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
- 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
- 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
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-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
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher 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
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller 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
How each representative voted: No
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-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
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- William P. Bolton D-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Raymond Willard Karst D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. O-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY
- Earl Thomas Wagner D-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin 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
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Hugo Sheridan Sims Jr. D-SC
- James Butler Hare D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Ben Hugh Guill R-TX
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
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.