House roll call 49 · 83rd Congress · Jul 10, 1953
HR 5898. Passage.
On Jul 10, 1953, the House voted 325–77 (HR 5898). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 171–39, Democrats 159–41, Independents 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 80 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
- 325
- No
- 77
- Did not vote
- 6
- Date
- Jul 10, 1953
By party
- Democrats159 yes · 41 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Republicans171 yes · 39 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ voted no
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA voted no
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA voted no
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- John Phillips R-CA voted no
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted no
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL voted no
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted no
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA voted no
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted no
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA voted no
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL voted no
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL voted no
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL voted no
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL voted no
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted no
- George Shannon Long D-LA voted no
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- Frank Small Jr. R-MD voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Kit Francis Clardy R-MI voted no
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI voted no
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI voted no
- Ruth Thompson R-MI voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO voted no
- William Clay Cole R-MO voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC voted no
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted no
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted no
- George Adams Shuford D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM voted no
- John Henry Ray R-NY voted no
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY voted no
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY voted no
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH voted no
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted no
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH voted no
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH voted no
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH voted no
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA voted no
- James Grove Fulton R-PA voted no
- John Jacob Riley D-SC voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- James Patton Sutton D-TN voted no
- Albert Thomas D-TX voted no
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX voted no
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX voted no
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX voted no
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX voted no
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA voted no
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted no
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI voted no
- John William Byrnes R-WI voted no
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- 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
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris 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
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Robert Likens Condon D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- Samuel William Yorty D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- 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
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair 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
- Howard Shultz Miller D-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- 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
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Charles Gibb Oakman R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Jeffrey Paul Hillelson R-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-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
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-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
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández 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
- Lester Holtzman D-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
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- James George Donovan 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
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George 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
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-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
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-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
- 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
- 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
- George Milton Rhodes D-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
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- 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
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas 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
- Douglas R. Stringfellow R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison 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
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- William Elmer Neal R-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- 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
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Frank Small Jr. R-MD
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Kit Francis Clardy R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Voted present
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- Garrett Lee Withers D-KY
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
Did not vote
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.