HR 7535. School construction aid bill. Motion to recommit, with instructions to substitute the administration program. Rejected.

On Jul 5, 1956, the House voted 158–262 (HR 7535). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 9–219, Republicans 153–47. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 56 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: 158
No: 262
Did not vote: 5
Date: Jul 5, 1956

By party

Democrats9 yes · 219 no · 4 didn’t vote
Republicans153 yes · 47 no · 1 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL voted yes
Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted yes
John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted no
Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted yes
Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted no
James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted no
Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted no
John Clarence Watts D-KY voted yes
Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted yes
George Meader R-MI voted no
August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI voted no
Victor Alfred Knox R-MI voted no
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted no
Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
Jackson Burton Chase R-NE voted no
Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted no
Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted no
Antonio M. Fernández D-NM 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
John Henry Ray R-NY voted no
James George Donovan D-NY voted yes
Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted no
James Ernest Wharton R-NY voted no
Dean Park Taylor R-NY voted no
John Raymond Pillion R-NY voted no
Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH voted no
William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted no
Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted no
Jackson Edward Betts R-OH voted no
Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH voted no
Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH voted no
John Earl Henderson R-OH voted no
Frank Townsend Bow R-OH voted no
William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH voted no
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA voted no
Paul Bartram Dague R-PA voted no
Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA voted no
Walter Mann Mumma R-PA voted no
James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted no
Leon Harry Gavin R-PA voted no
James Grove Fulton R-PA voted no
Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX voted no
Albert Thomas D-TX voted yes
Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA voted no
Russell Vernon Mack R-WA voted no
Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA voted no
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no
Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
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
Charles McKevett Teague 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
Harry Richard Sheppard D-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
Albert William Cretella R-CT
Albert Paul Morano R-CT
Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
William Cato Cramer R-FL
Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
Harold Royce Gross 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
Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
William Estus Mcvey R-IL
Richard William Hoffman R-IL
Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
Marguerite Stitt Church 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
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
William Gilmer Bray R-IN
Earl Wilson R-IN
Ralph Harvey R-IN
Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
William Henry Avery R-KS
Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
Myron Virgil George R-KS
Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
Wint Smith R-KS
John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
John Clarence Watts D-KY
Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
Eugene Siler R-KY
John Walter Heselton R-MA
Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
William Henry Bates R-MA
Donald William Nicholson R-MA
Laurence Curtis R-MA
Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
Robert Hale R-ME
Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
Ruth Thompson R-MI
Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
George Anthony Dondero R-MI
August Herman Andresen R-MN
Walter Henry Judd R-MN
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT
Otto Krueger R-ND
Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
Perkins Bass R-NH
Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
William Beck Widnall R-NJ
Gordon Canfield R-NJ
Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
James George Donovan D-NY
Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
Katharine Price Collier St. George 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
Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
William Emil Hess R-OH
Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
John Martin Vorys R-OH
William Hanes Ayres R-OH
J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
Page Henry Belcher R-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
Ivor David Fenton R-PA
Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
John Phillips Saylor R-PA
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
Robert James Corbett R-PA
Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
Albert Thomas D-TX
Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
William Adams Dawson R-UT
Richard Harding Poff R-VA
Joel Thomas Broyhill 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
Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY

How each representative voted: No

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “HR 7535. School construction aid bill…: House Vote, Jul 5, 1956,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/84-H-123/hr-7535-school-construction-aid-bill-motion-to-recommit (accessed 2026-10-15).