HR 7434. Establish a national committee on education. Passage.

On May 13, 1954, the House voted 178–157 (HR 7434). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 192–24, Democrats 19–167, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 43 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: 178
No: 157
Did not vote: 7
Date: May 13, 1954

By party

Democrats19 yes · 167 no · 3 didn’t vote
Republicans192 yes · 24 no · 4 didn’t vote
Independents1 yes · 0 no

Who broke with their party

Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted yes
Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA voted yes
Byron Giles Rogers D-CO voted yes
Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID voted yes
Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted yes
John Valentine Beamer R-IN voted no
D. Bailey Merrill R-IN voted no
Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN voted no
Howard Shultz Miller D-KS voted yes
Wint Smith R-KS voted no
William Huston Natcher D-KY voted yes
Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted yes
Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted yes
Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted yes
Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted no
Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted yes
Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO voted yes
Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT voted yes
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted no
Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted no
Charles Robert Howell D-NJ voted yes
Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ voted yes
Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ voted yes
Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY voted no
Frank John Becker R-NY voted no
Henry Jepson Latham R-NY voted no
Albert Henry Bosch R-NY voted no
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted yes
Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY voted no
Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR voted no
Aime Joseph Forand D-RI voted yes
John Edward Fogarty D-RI voted yes
Russell Vernon Mack R-WA voted no
Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI voted no
Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI voted no
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI voted no
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI voted no
William Elmer Neal R-WV voted no

The bill

H.R. 7434: To establish a National Advisory Committee on Education

How each representative voted: Yes

Lawrence Brooks Hays 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
Harlan Francis Hagen D-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
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
Albert Paul Morano R-CT
James Thomas Patterson R-CT
Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
Herbert Birchby Warburton R-DE
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
Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
William Estus Mcvey R-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
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
Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
William Lee Springer R-IL
Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
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
Earl Wilson R-IN
Ralph Harvey 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
William Huston Natcher D-KY
John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
James Stephen Golden R-KY
John Walter Heselton R-MA
Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
Philip Joseph Philbin 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
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
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
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
Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
Otto Krueger R-ND
Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
Roman Lee Hruska R-NE
Robert Dinsmore Harrison 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
Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ
William Beck Widnall R-NJ
Gordon Canfield R-NJ
Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
John Henry Ray R-NY
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
Paul Albert Fino R-NY
Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
James Ernest Wharton R-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
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
John Martin Vorys R-OH
Alvin F. Weichel 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
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
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
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
James Grove Fulton R-PA
Robert James Corbett R-PA
Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
John Edward Fogarty D-RI
Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
Douglas R. Stringfellow R-UT
William Adams Dawson R-UT
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
Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
William Henry Harrison R-WY

How each representative voted: No

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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