House roll call 78 · 83rd Congress · Mar 2, 1954
H J RES 355. Joint resolution amending the act approved july 12, 1951 (65 stat. 119 7 US c 1461-1468) relating to the supplying of agricultural workers from t
On Mar 2, 1954, the House voted 156–250 (HJRE 355). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 43–169, Democrats 120–87, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 130 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
- 156
- No
- 250
- Did not vote
- 7
- Date
- Mar 2, 1954
By party
- Democrats120 yes · 87 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans43 yes · 169 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- George McInvale Grant 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
- 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
- Clair Engle D-CA voted no
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted no
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted yes
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT voted yes
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews 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
- Carl Vinson 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
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL voted yes
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted yes
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted yes
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted yes
- Howard Shultz Miller D-KS voted no
- Myron Virgil George R-KS voted yes
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA voted no
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted no
- Laurence Curtis R-MA voted yes
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted yes
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted no
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC 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
- George Adams Shuford D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted yes
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted yes
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted yes
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM voted no
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM voted no
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY voted yes
- Frank John Becker R-NY voted yes
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY voted yes
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted yes
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted yes
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY voted yes
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY voted yes
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY voted yes
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY voted yes
- John Martin Vorys R-OH voted yes
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK voted no
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted no
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK voted no
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR voted yes
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA voted yes
And 50 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- 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
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham 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
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Overton Brooks 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
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman 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
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-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
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-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
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Frank John Becker 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
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. 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
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- John Jarman D-OK
- Homer Daniel Angell 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
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Edward John Bonin R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- 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
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. 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
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss 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
- 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
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Albert William Cretella R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Herbert Birchby Warburton R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum 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
- James Isaac Dolliver 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
- 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 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
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Howard Shultz Miller D-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- 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
- 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
- George Meader R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. 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
- 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
- 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
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- 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
- George Adams Shuford 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
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch 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
- 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
- Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton 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
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- 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
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper 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
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry 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
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher 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
- 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
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan 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
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Voted present
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Courtney Warren Campbell D-FL
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Kit Francis Clardy R-MI
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
Did not vote
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Garrett Lee Withers D-KY
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- 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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