House roll call 133 · 82nd Congress · Apr 4, 1952
H RES 561. Resolution creating a select committee to conduct an investigation and study of foundations and other comparable organizations.
On Apr 4, 1952, the House voted 194–158 (HRE 561). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 98–106, Republicans 114–69, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 167 members voted against their own party.
During the 82nd Congress (1951–1952), Harry S. Truman was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 194
- No
- 158
- Did not vote
- 18
- Date
- Apr 4, 1952
By party
- Democrats98 yes · 106 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Republicans114 yes · 69 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted yes
- George William Andrews D-AL voted yes
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL voted yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- James William Trimble D-AR voted yes
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR voted yes
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted yes
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted yes
- Oren Harris D-AR voted yes
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ voted yes
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA voted no
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA voted no
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA voted no
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA voted no
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted no
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted no
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT voted no
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted no
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT voted no
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE voted no
- Chester Bartow Mcmullen D-FL voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL voted yes
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted yes
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted yes
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted yes
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted yes
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted yes
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted yes
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA voted yes
- Paul Brown D-GA voted yes
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted no
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- William Lee Springer R-IL voted no
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted yes
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted yes
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted yes
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA voted yes
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted yes
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted yes
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted yes
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted yes
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted no
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME voted no
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted no
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI voted no
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted no
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted yes
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted yes
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO voted no
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted yes
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted yes
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted yes
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted yes
And 87 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts 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
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings 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
- Chester Bartow Mcmullen D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- John Travers Wood R-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan 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
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- John Clarence Watts 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
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin 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
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- George Meader R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Orland Kay Armstrong R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith 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
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Fred George Aandahl R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker 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
- John William Wright Patman 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
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- 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
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
- Samuel William Yorty 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
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-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
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow 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
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Ernest Greenwood D-NY
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso 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
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- John Jarman D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Edward Lewis Sittler Jr. R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Harmar Denny Denny Jr. R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
Voted present
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Did not vote
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Albert Clinton Vaughn Sr. R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Kee D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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