House roll call 39 · 82nd Congress · Jun 15, 1951
On motion to adjourn.
On Jun 15, 1951, the House voted 75–161. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 72–46, Republicans 3–114, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 49 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
- 75
- No
- 161
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- Jun 15, 1951
By party
- Democrats72 yes · 46 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans3 yes · 114 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL voted no
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO voted no
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT voted no
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted yes
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted yes
- Ralph Harvey R-IN voted yes
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted no
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA voted no
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA voted no
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- Clare Magee D-MO voted no
- Philip James Welch D-MO voted no
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted no
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC voted no
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ voted no
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted no
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted no
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
- John Jarman D-OK voted no
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA voted no
- James Francis Lind D-PA voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC voted no
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX voted no
- William Homer Thornberry 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
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA voted no
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV voted no
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Samuel William Yorty D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Chester Bartow Mcmullen D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- 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
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Allan Oakley Hunter 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
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- Orland Kay Armstrong R-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- 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
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Edward Lewis Sittler Jr. R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry 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
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- John Travers Wood R-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. 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
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- Fred George Aandahl R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Ernest Greenwood D-NY
- 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
- 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
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. D-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
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Lowell Stockman 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
- Albert Clinton Vaughn Sr. R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Harmar Denny Denny Jr. R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Edward John Robeson 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
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Did not vote
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- John Kee D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.