H RES 396. Disapprove sale of rubber producing facilities in west virginia. Rejected.

On Feb 8, 1956, the House voted 61–310 (HRE 396). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 70–149, Republicans 2–174. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 72 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: 61
No: 310
Did not vote: 4
Date: Feb 8, 1956

By party

Democrats70 yes · 149 no · 4 didn’t vote
Republicans2 yes · 174 no

Who broke with their party

Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL voted yes
Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted yes
Clair Engle D-CA voted yes
Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted yes
Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted yes
Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT voted yes
Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA voted yes
Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID voted yes
William Levi Dawson D-IL voted yes
Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted yes
James Cunningham Murray D-IL voted yes
John Carl Kluczynski D-IL voted yes
Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted yes
James Bernard Bowler D-IL voted yes
Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted yes
Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted yes
Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL voted yes
Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted yes
Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted yes
Kenneth James Gray D-IL voted yes
Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN voted yes
Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted yes
John Walter Heselton R-MA voted yes
Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA voted yes
Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted yes
Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD voted yes
Roy William Wier D-MN voted yes
Fred Marshall D-MN voted yes
Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted yes
Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted yes
George Henry Christopher D-MO voted yes
Richard Walker Bolling D-MO voted yes
Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO voted yes
Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted yes
Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT voted yes
Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ voted yes
Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ voted yes
Thomas James Tumulty D-NJ voted yes
Antonio M. Fernández D-NM voted yes
Lester Holtzman D-NY voted yes
James Joseph Delaney D-NY voted yes
Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY voted yes
Eugene James Keogh D-NY voted yes
Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY voted yes
Emanuel Celler D-NY voted yes
Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY voted yes
John James Rooney D-NY voted yes
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted yes
Arthur George Klein D-NY voted yes
Irwin Delmore Davidson D-NY voted yes
Herbert Zelenko D-NY voted yes
Isidore Dollinger D-NY voted yes
Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY voted yes
James Gould Polk D-OH voted yes
Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH voted yes
Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted yes
William Aloysius Barrett D-PA voted yes
William Thomas Granahan D-PA voted yes
James Aloysius Byrne D-PA voted yes
Earl Chudoff D-PA voted yes
William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA voted yes
George Milton Rhodes D-PA voted yes
Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted yes
Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted yes
Aime Joseph Forand D-RI voted yes
John Edward Fogarty D-RI voted yes
Joseph Landon Evins D-TN voted yes
John William Wright Patman D-TX voted yes
Walter Edward Rogers D-TX voted yes
Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA voted yes
Lester Roland Johnson D-WI voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Frank William Boykin D-AL
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
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
Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
John Emerson Moss D-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
Charles McKevett Teague R-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
Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
James Roosevelt D-CA
Harry Richard Sheppard D-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
Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
James Andrew Haley D-FL
Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
James Curran Davis D-GA
Carl Vinson D-GA
Iris Faircloth Blitch 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
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
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
Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
William Lee Springer R-IL
Ray John Madden D-IN
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
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
Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
William Huston Natcher D-KY
John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
John Clarence Watts D-KY
Eugene Siler R-KY
Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
Edwin Edward Willis 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
Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
William Henry Bates R-MA
Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
Donald William Nicholson R-MA
Laurence Curtis R-MA
John William Mccormack D-MA
Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth 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
Robert Hale R-ME
Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
George Meader R-MI
August Edgar Johansen R-MI
Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
Donald Hayworth D-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 Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
George Anthony Dondero R-MI
August Herman Andresen R-MN
Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
John Anton Blatnik D-MN
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
Dewey Jackson Short R-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
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
Harold Dunbar Cooley 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
Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
Perkins Bass R-NH
Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ
William Beck Widnall R-NJ
Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
Frank John Becker R-NY
Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
John Henry Ray R-NY
Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
James George Donovan D-NY
Paul Albert Fino R-NY
Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
James Ernest Wharton R-NY
Leo William O'Brien D-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
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
Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
William Hanes Ayres R-OH
John Earl Henderson R-OH
Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
Page Henry Belcher R-OK
Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
Carl Bert Albert D-OK
Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
John Jarman D-OK
Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
Edith Starrett Green D-OR
Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. 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
Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
James Michael Quigley D-PA
James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
John Phillips Saylor R-PA
Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
James Grove Fulton R-PA
Robert James Corbett R-PA
Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
John Jacob Riley D-SC
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
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
James Percy Priest D-TN
Ross Bass D-TN
Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
Jere Cooper D-TN
Clifford Davis D-TN
Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
Olin Earl Teague D-TX
John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
Albert Thomas 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
Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
J. T. Rutherford D-TX
Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
George Herman Mahon D-TX
Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
William Adams Dawson R-UT
Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
William Munford Tuck D-VA
Richard Harding Poff R-VA
Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
William Pat Jennings D-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
Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
Clement John Zablocki D-WI
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “H RES 396. Disapprove sale of rubber…: House Vote, Feb 8, 1956,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/84-H-80/h-res-396-disapprove-sale-of-rubber-producing-facilities (accessed 2026-10-17).