House roll call 146 · 84th Congress · Jul 26, 1956
HR 8902. Air carriers bill. Motion to recommit. Agreed to.
On Jul 26, 1956, the House voted 196–153 (HR 8902). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 112–67, Republicans 85–87. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 152 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
- 196
- No
- 153
- Did not vote
- 5
- Date
- Jul 26, 1956
By party
- Democrats112 yes · 67 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Republicans85 yes · 87 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL voted no
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted no
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL 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
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA voted yes
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA voted yes
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA voted yes
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA voted yes
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA voted yes
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted yes
- John Phillips R-CA voted yes
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO voted no
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT voted no
- William Cato Cramer R-FL voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted yes
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted yes
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted yes
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID voted yes
- James Cunningham Murray D-IL voted no
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted yes
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL voted yes
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted yes
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted yes
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted yes
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted yes
- William Henry Avery R-KS voted yes
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted yes
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted no
- William Henry Bates R-MA voted yes
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted yes
- Laurence Curtis R-MA voted yes
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA voted no
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted yes
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD voted no
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD voted no
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted yes
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted yes
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI voted yes
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI voted yes
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI voted yes
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI voted yes
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted yes
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted yes
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO voted yes
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT voted yes
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC voted no
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted no
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted yes
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted no
And 72 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Donald Hayworth D-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Thomas James Tumulty D-NJ
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Irwin Delmore Davidson D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts 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
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-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
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- James Cunningham Murray D-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham 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
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Jackson Burton Chase R-NE
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- John Junior Bell D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
Did not vote
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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