House roll call 59 · 84th Congress · Jul 7, 1955
S 2090. Mutual security act of 1955. Conference report. Adopted.
On Jul 7, 1955, the House voted 262–120 (S 2090). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 160–52, Republicans 111–77. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 129 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
- 262
- No
- 120
- Did not vote
- 3
- Date
- Jul 7, 1955
By party
- Democrats160 yes · 52 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans111 yes · 77 no
Who broke with their party
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- John Phillips R-CA voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes 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
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID voted no
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL voted no
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL voted no
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL voted no
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN voted no
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted no
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- Ralph Harvey R-IN voted no
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Eugene Siler R-KY voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted no
- George Shannon Long D-LA voted no
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME voted no
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME voted no
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI voted no
- Ruth Thompson R-MI voted no
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI voted no
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI voted no
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden 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 no
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted no
- George Adams Shuford D-NC voted no
- Otto Krueger R-ND voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick 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
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted no
And 49 more.
The bill
S. 2090: A bill to amend the Mutual Security Act of 1954, and for other purposes.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin 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
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-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
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver 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
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-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
- George Meader R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Donald Hayworth D-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-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
- Thomas James Tumulty D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Henry Ray 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
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor 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
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan 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
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-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
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- 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 Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff 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
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross 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
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman 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
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham 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
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Jackson Burton Chase R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- John Junior Bell D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Russell Vernon Mack 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
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
Voted present
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
Did not vote
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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