House roll call 67 · 83rd Congress · Jul 31, 1953
HR 6391. On adoption of conference report.
On Jul 31, 1953, the House voted 237–156 (HR 6391). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 128–86, Democrats 125–87, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 173 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
- 237
- No
- 156
- Did not vote
- 6
- Date
- Jul 31, 1953
By party
- Democrats125 yes · 87 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Republicans128 yes · 86 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ voted no
- Clair Engle D-CA voted no
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA voted no
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- John Phillips R-CA voted no
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes 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
- 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
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID voted no
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL voted no
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL voted no
- Richard William Hoffman 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
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN voted no
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted no
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert 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
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD voted no
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME voted no
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME voted no
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI 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
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI voted no
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI voted no
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI voted no
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted no
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
And 93 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-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
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson 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
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-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
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill 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
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver 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
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- D. Bailey Merrill R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Howard Shultz Miller D-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- 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
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Frank Small Jr. R-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Charles Gibb Oakman R-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton 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
- 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
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-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
- Paul Albert Fino 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
- 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
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-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
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. 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
- 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
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- 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
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Douglas R. Stringfellow R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-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
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham 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
- James Bernard Bowler D-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
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert 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
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman 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
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Jeffrey Paul Hillelson R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Roman Lee Hruska R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- 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 Patton Sutton D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Russell Vernon Mack 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
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- William Elmer Neal R-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Voted present
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Garrett Lee Withers D-KY
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Merlin Hull R-WI
Did not vote
Other votes
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