HR 9821. Federal-aid highway act of 1958. Adoption of conference report.

On Apr 3, 1958, the House voted 300–28 (HR 9821). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 161–14, Republicans 139–14. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 28 members voted against their own party.

During the 85th Congress (1957–1958), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 300
No: 28
Did not vote: 14
Date: Apr 3, 1958

By party

Democrats161 yes · 14 no · 8 didn’t vote
Republicans139 yes · 14 no · 6 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
Laurence Curtis R-MA voted no
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO voted no
Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ voted no
John Henry Ray R-NY voted no
Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY voted no
William Hanes Ayres R-OH voted no
J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH voted no
Richard Murray Simpson R-PA voted no
Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX voted no
Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted no
Albert Thomas D-TX voted no
Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX voted no
William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX voted no
J. T. Rutherford D-TX voted no
Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
Walter Edward Rogers D-TX voted no
George Herman Mahon D-TX voted no
Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted no
Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA voted no
William Munford Tuck D-VA voted no
Richard Harding Poff R-VA voted no
Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI voted no
John William Byrnes R-WI voted no
William Elmer Neal R-WV voted no

The bill

H.R. 9821: To amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act approved July 11. 1916, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways

How each representative voted: Yes

George William Andrews D-AL
Kenneth Allison Roberts 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
Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
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
Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
Craig Hosmer R-CA
H. Allen Smith R-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
Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
William Silas Hill R-CO
John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
Edwin Hyland May Jr. R-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
Harry Garner Haskell Jr. R-DE
William Cato Cramer R-FL
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
John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
Harlan Erwin Mitchell D-GA
Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
Paul Brown D-GA
Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
Harold Royce Gross R-IA
Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
Merwin Coad D-IA
Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
Barratt O'Hara D-IL
Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL
William Estus Mcvey R-IL
John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
Robert Henry Michel R-IL
Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
William Lee Springer R-IL
Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
Charles Melvin Price D-IL
Kenneth James Gray D-IL
Ray John Madden D-IN
F. Jay Nimtz R-IN
John Valentine Beamer R-IN
William Gilmer Bray R-IN
Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-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
Wint Smith R-KS
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
Eugene Siler R-KY
Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
Overton Brooks D-LA
James Hobson Morrison D-LA
Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
John Walter Heselton R-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
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
Frank Morey Coffin D-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
Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
Robert John Mcintosh R-MI
Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
William S. Broomfield R-MI
Albert Harold Quie R-MN
Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
Roy William Wier D-MN
Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
Walter Henry Judd R-MN
Fred Marshall D-MN
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
John Anton Blatnik D-MN
Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
George Henry Christopher D-MO
William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
Charles Harrison Brown 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
John Bell Williams D-MS
William Arthur Winstead D-MS
Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT
Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
Ralph James Scott D-NC
Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
George Adams Shuford D-NC
Otto Krueger R-ND
Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
Glenn Clarence Cunningham 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
James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
Florence Price Dwyer R-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
Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
Vincent John Dellay D-NJ
Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
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
Eugene James Keogh D-NY
Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY
Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
William Edward Miller R-NY
John Raymond Pillion R-NY
Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
James Gould Polk D-OH
Clarence J. Brown R-OH
Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
David Short Dennison R-OH
John Martin Vorys R-OH
Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
John Earl Henderson R-OH
Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
Page Henry Belcher R-OK
Carl Bert Albert D-OK
Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
John Jarman D-OK
Toby Morris D-OK
Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
Edith Starrett Green D-OR
Charles Orlando Porter D-OR
William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan D-PA
James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
Daniel John Flood D-PA
Ivor David Fenton R-PA
John Armand Lafore Jr. R-PA
George Milton Rhodes D-PA
Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
James Edward Van Zandt R-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
Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
Robert James Corbett 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
Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
George Stanley Mcgovern D-SD
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
Ross Bass D-TN
Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
Clifford Davis D-TN
Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
William Homer Thornberry D-TX
James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
John Andrew Young D-TX
Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
William Pat Jennings D-VA
Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
Donald Edgar Tewes R-WI
Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
Clement John Zablocki D-WI
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
Robert Carlyle Byrd 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 9821. Federal-aid highway act of 1958…: House Vote, Apr 3, 1958,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/85-H-124/hr-9821-federal-aid-highway-act-of-1958-adoption (accessed 2026-10-17).