House roll call 40 · 83rd Congress · Jun 27, 1953
H RES 295. Resolution declaring that the house does not favor the reorganization plan no. 6.
On Jun 27, 1953, the House voted 108–235 (HRE 295). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 11–169, Democrats 97–68, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 79 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
- 108
- No
- 235
- Did not vote
- 6
- Date
- Jun 27, 1953
By party
- Democrats97 yes · 68 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Republicans11 yes · 169 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- James William Trimble D-AR voted no
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Clair Engle D-CA voted no
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA voted yes
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA voted no
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO voted no
- Courtney Warren Campbell D-FL voted no
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted no
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted yes
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- George Shannon Long D-LA voted no
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted no
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA voted no
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted no
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD voted yes
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted no
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted yes
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted yes
- Ruth Thompson R-MI voted yes
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted no
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO voted yes
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC voted no
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted no
- George Adams Shuford D-NC voted no
- Otto Krueger R-ND voted yes
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ voted no
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ voted no
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ voted no
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM voted no
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM voted no
- John James Rooney D-NY voted no
- William Robert Williams R-NY voted yes
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted no
- John Jarman D-OK voted no
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK voted no
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted yes
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
- John Jacob Riley D-SC voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted no
- Jere Cooper D-TN voted no
- Clifford Davis D-TN voted no
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX voted no
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX voted no
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX voted no
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted no
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA voted no
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA voted no
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Robert Likens Condon D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Samuel William Yorty D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Howard Shultz Miller D-KS
- 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
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. D-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed 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
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-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
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert William Cretella R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Herbert Birchby Warburton R-DE
- Courtney Warren Campbell D-FL
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church 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
- Charles Melvin Price D-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
- 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
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-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
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Frank Small Jr. R-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Kit Francis Clardy R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Charles Gibb Oakman R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- 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
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn 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
- 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
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Edward John Bonin R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt 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
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-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
- 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
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Voted present
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Garrett Lee Withers D-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Robert Hale R-ME
- John David Dingell D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Jeffrey Paul Hillelson R-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Douglas R. Stringfellow R-UT
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Did not vote
Other votes
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