House roll call 135 · 82nd Congress · Apr 4, 1952
HR 7289. On jensen amend. (relative to filling vacancies).
On Apr 4, 1952, the House voted 208–114 (HR 7289). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 51–111, Republicans 157–2, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 53 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
- 208
- No
- 114
- Did not vote
- 17
- Date
- Apr 4, 1952
By party
- Democrats51 yes · 111 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Republicans157 yes · 2 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- George William Andrews D-AL voted yes
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL voted yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- Oren Harris D-AR voted yes
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ voted yes
- Clair Engle D-CA voted yes
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT voted yes
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted yes
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted yes
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted yes
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted yes
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted yes
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA voted yes
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted yes
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA voted yes
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted yes
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO voted yes
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin 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
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted yes
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM voted yes
- James George Donovan D-NY voted yes
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted no
- John Jarman D-OK voted yes
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC voted yes
- James Patton Sutton D-TN voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted yes
- Jere Cooper D-TN voted yes
- John William Wright Patman D-TX voted yes
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX voted yes
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX voted yes
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted yes
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX voted yes
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX voted yes
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX voted yes
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted yes
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted yes
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA voted yes
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA voted yes
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted yes
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA voted yes
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA voted yes
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA voted yes
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted yes
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- James Curran Davis 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
- John Travers Wood R-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- 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
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- Orland Kay Armstrong R-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin 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
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- Fred George Aandahl R-ND
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison 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
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Robert Williams 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
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- John Jarman D-OK
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Harmar Denny Denny Jr. R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. 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
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant 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
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Samuel William Yorty D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- Chester Bartow Mcmullen D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Ernest Greenwood D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday 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
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- James Joseph Murphy D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Edward Lewis Sittler Jr. R-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- 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 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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