House roll call 7 · 81st Congress · Feb 9, 1949
HR 1211. Passage.
On Feb 9, 1949, the House voted 319–69 (HR 1211). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 238–8, Republicans 90–70, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 78 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
- 319
- No
- 69
- Did not vote
- 12
- Date
- Feb 9, 1949
By party
- Democrats238 yes · 8 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Republicans90 yes · 70 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA voted no
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA voted no
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA voted no
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA voted no
- John Phillips R-CA voted no
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT voted no
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID voted no
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL voted no
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted no
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL voted no
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
- George Joseph Bates R-MA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted no
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA voted no
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME voted no
- Frank Fellows R-ME voted no
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI voted no
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted no
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI voted no
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted no
- William Lemke R-ND voted no
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE voted no
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted no
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY voted no
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY voted no
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted no
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH voted no
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH voted no
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH voted no
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH voted no
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR voted no
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR voted no
- Hardie Scott R-PA voted no
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA voted no
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA voted no
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA voted no
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA voted no
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA voted no
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA voted no
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA voted no
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX voted no
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT voted no
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA voted no
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI voted no
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI voted no
- John William Byrnes R-WI voted no
- Merlin Hull R-WI voted no
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV voted no
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY 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
- 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
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- 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
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- George Armistead Smathers 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
- 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
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven 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
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-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
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- James Ellsworth Noland D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory 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
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- 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
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-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
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- 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 Lesinski D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-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
- 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
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham 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
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- 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
- 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
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers 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
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-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
- 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
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer 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 Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- John Mcsweeney 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
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- George Howard Wilson D-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. 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
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Robert Lewis Coffey Jr. D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Harry James Davenport 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
- 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
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- 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
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Hardie Scott 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
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Voted present
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- John David Dingell D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- John Esten Miles D-NM
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
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
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. O-NY
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Ben Hugh Guill R-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.