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On Feb 19, 1953, the House voted 182–199 (HR 3053). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 19–190, Democrats 177–23, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 42 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: 182
No: 199
Did not vote: 6
Date: Feb 19, 1953

By party

Democrats177 yes · 23 no · 5 didn’t vote
Republicans19 yes · 190 no · 1 didn’t vote
Independents1 yes · 0 no

Who broke with their party

George William Andrews D-AL voted no
William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA voted yes
Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
William Lee Springer R-IL voted yes
Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted yes
Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted yes
Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted no
Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
Frank Ertel Carlyle 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
Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted yes
Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted yes
Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted yes
Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY voted yes
Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY voted yes
William Hanes Ayres R-OH voted yes
Edward John Bonin R-PA voted yes
Ivor David Fenton R-PA voted yes
James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted yes
John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted yes
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA voted yes
James Grove Fulton R-PA voted yes
Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX voted no
Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX voted no
Albert Thomas D-TX voted no
William Homer Thornberry D-TX voted no
Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX voted no
Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX voted no
Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
Martin Dies Jr. D-TX voted no
Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA voted no
Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA voted no
Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA voted no
Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted no
Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI voted yes

The bill

H.R. 3053: Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953, and for other purposes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

George William Andrews D-AL
William Frank Norrell D-AR
John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
William Somers Mailliard 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
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
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
Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
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
Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
William Estus Mcvey R-IL
Sidney Richard Yates D-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
Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
John Valentine Beamer R-IN
Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
William Gilmer Bray R-IN
D. Bailey Merrill 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
James Stephen Golden R-KY
John Walter Heselton R-MA
William Henry Bates R-MA
Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
Donald William Nicholson R-MA
Laurence Curtis R-MA
Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
Frank Small Jr. R-MD
DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
Robert Hale R-ME
Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
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
John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
Charles Gibb Oakman R-MI
George Anthony Dondero R-MI
August Herman Andresen R-MN
Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-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
Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
Frank Ertel Carlyle 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
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
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
Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
James Ernest Wharton R-NY
Dean Park Taylor 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
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
Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
John Martin Vorys R-OH
Alvin F. Weichel 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
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
Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
Louis Edward Graham R-PA
Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
Albert Thomas D-TX
William Homer Thornberry D-TX
Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
Douglas R. Stringfellow R-UT
William Adams Dawson R-UT
Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
Richard Harding Poff R-VA
Howard Worth Smith D-VA
William Creed Wampler R-VA
Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
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
Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Merlin Hull R-WI
William Elmer Neal R-WV
William Henry Harrison R-WY

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

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