House roll call 103 · 84th Congress · May 21, 1956
HR 11124. Judicial dependents. Provide for payment of annuities for widows and dependent children of federal judges. Suspension of rules. Two-thirds majorit
On May 21, 1956, the House voted 238–52 (HR 11124). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 138–19, Republicans 104–35. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 54 members voted against their own party.
During the 84th Congress (1955–1956), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 238
- No
- 52
- Did not vote
- 4
- Date
- May 21, 1956
By party
- Democrats138 yes · 19 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans104 yes · 35 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT voted no
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted no
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL voted no
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Eugene Siler R-KY voted no
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD voted no
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Otto Krueger R-ND voted no
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE voted no
- Jackson Burton Chase R-NE voted no
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE voted no
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted no
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ voted no
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY voted no
- William Robert Williams R-NY voted no
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH voted no
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR voted no
- Karl Clarence King R-PA voted no
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA voted no
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted no
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted no
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted no
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX voted no
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX voted no
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted no
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX voted no
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA voted no
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA voted no
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA voted no
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan 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
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston 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
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague 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
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- James Cunningham Murray D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends 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
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Donald Hayworth D-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
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Thomas James Tumulty D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag 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
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre 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
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Jackson Burton Chase R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Voted present
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert William Cretella R-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Irwin Delmore Davidson D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham 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
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- John Junior Bell D-TX
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
Did not vote
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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