House roll call 46 · 81st Congress · May 4, 1949
HR 2032. On motion to recommit.
On May 4, 1949, the House voted 212–209 (HR 2032). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 194–63, Republicans 21–150, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 84 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
- 212
- No
- 209
- Did not vote
- 14
- Date
- May 4, 1949
By party
- Democrats194 yes · 63 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans21 yes · 150 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted no
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- 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
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson 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
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted yes
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted yes
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- James Stephen Golden R-KY voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA voted no
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI voted yes
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- William Madison Whittington 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
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Richard Thurmond Chatham 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
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC voted no
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ voted yes
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted yes
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted yes
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH voted yes
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR voted yes
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
- James Butler Hare D-SC voted no
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC voted no
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC voted no
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted no
- Clifford Davis D-TN voted no
- 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted no
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX voted no
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted no
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA voted no
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA voted no
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted no
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA voted no
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA voted no
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA voted no
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA voted yes
And 4 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. 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
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-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
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-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 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
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Neil Joseph Linehan D-IL
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Thurman Charles Crook D-IN
- Edward H. Kruse D-IN
- James Ellsworth Noland D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- John Albert Whitaker D-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
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- William P. Bolton D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-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
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Raymond Willard Karst D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- 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
- 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
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh 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
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-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
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- John Clay Davies D-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 Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-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
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Harry James Davenport D-PA
- Robert James Corbett 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
- 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
- Jere Cooper 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
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-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
- 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
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-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
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- 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
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church 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
- 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
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-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
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-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 Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-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
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer 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
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette 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
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers 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
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland 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
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Voted present
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL
- John Richard Walsh D-IN
Did not vote
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. O-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Robert Lewis Coffey Jr. D-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Ben Hugh Guill R-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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