House roll call 125 · 83rd Congress · Jul 26, 1954
HR 9757. Motion to recommit.
On Jul 26, 1954, the House voted 165–222 (HR 9757). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 11–203, Democrats 166–32, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 43 members voted against their own party.
During the 83rd Congress (1953–1954), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 165
- No
- 222
- Did not vote
- 9
- Date
- Jul 26, 1954
By party
- Democrats166 yes · 32 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Republicans11 yes · 203 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ voted no
- Courtney Warren Campbell D-FL voted no
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted yes
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted yes
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted no
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM voted no
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM voted no
- James George Donovan D-NY voted no
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted yes
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY voted no
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted no
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
- John Jacob Riley D-SC voted no
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD voted yes
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD voted yes
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX voted no
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX voted no
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX voted no
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX voted no
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA voted no
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted no
- William Munford Tuck D-VA voted no
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA voted no
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT voted yes
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI voted yes
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted yes
The bill
H.R. 9757: To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as amended, and for other purposes
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Robert Likens Condon D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Samuel William Yorty D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Howard Shultz Miller D-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert William Cretella R-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Herbert Birchby Warburton R-DE
- Courtney Warren Campbell D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle 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
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt 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
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- 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
- D. Bailey Merrill R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- 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
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Frank Small Jr. R-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Kit Francis Clardy R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- Charles Gibb Oakman R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Jeffrey Paul Hillelson R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Roman Lee Hruska 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
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. 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
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman 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 Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer 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
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel 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
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Edward John Bonin R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Douglas R. Stringfellow R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- 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
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- William Elmer Neal R-WV
Voted present
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Did not vote
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Garrett Lee Withers D-KY
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Merlin Hull R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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