HR 12541. Department of defense reorganization act of 1958. Motion to recommit with instructions to amend as required by President. Rejected.

On Jun 12, 1958, the House voted 192–211 (HR 12541). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 21–207, Republicans 181–15. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 36 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: 192
No: 211
Did not vote: 13
Date: Jun 12, 1958

By party

Democrats21 yes · 207 no · 7 didn’t vote
Republicans181 yes · 15 no · 6 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ voted yes
Donald Lester Jackson R-CA voted no
Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted yes
Craig Hosmer R-CA voted no
James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted no
Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted yes
Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted yes
George Meader R-MI voted no
August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted yes
Fred Marshall D-MN voted yes
Charles Harrison Brown D-MO voted yes
Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted yes
Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO voted yes
Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ voted yes
Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ voted no
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ voted yes
Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ voted yes
Lester Holtzman D-NY voted yes
Leonard Farbstein D-NY voted yes
Leo William O'Brien D-NY voted yes
Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH voted yes
John Jarman D-OK voted yes
James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted no
John Edward Fogarty D-RI voted yes
George Stanley Mcgovern D-SD voted yes
George Herman Mahon D-TX voted yes
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI voted yes
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no

The bill

H.R. 12541: To promote the national defense by providing for reorganization of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes

How each representative voted: Yes

John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
William Somers Mailliard R-CA
John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
H. Allen Smith R-CA
Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
John Edgar Chenoweth R-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
Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL
William Estus Mcvey R-IL
Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
Noah Morgan Mason 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
William Lee Springer R-IL
Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
F. Jay Nimtz R-IN
Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
John Valentine Beamer R-IN
Cecil Murray Harden 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
Wint Smith R-KS
John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
Eugene Siler R-KY
John Walter Heselton R-MA
Edward Patrick Boland 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
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
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
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 Bonifas Bennett R-MI
Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
William S. Broomfield R-MI
Albert Harold Quie R-MN
Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
Walter Henry Judd R-MN
Fred Marshall D-MN
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
Charles Raper Jonas R-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
Milton Willits Glenn 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
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
Frank John Becker R-NY
Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
Lester Holtzman D-NY
Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
John Henry Ray R-NY
Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
Leonard Farbstein D-NY
Paul Albert Fino R-NY
Edwin Benedict Dooley 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
Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
William Robert Williams R-NY
Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
John Taber R-NY
Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
William Edward Miller R-NY
Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
John Raymond Pillion R-NY
Daniel Alden Reed 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 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
William Hanes Ayres R-OH
John Earl Henderson R-OH
Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
Page Henry Belcher R-OK
John Jarman D-OK
Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
Ivor David Fenton R-PA
John Armand Lafore Jr. R-PA
Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
John Phillips Saylor 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
George Stanley Mcgovern D-SD
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
George Herman Mahon 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
Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
Donald Edgar Tewes R-WI
Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
William Elmer Neal R-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 12541. Department of defense…: House Vote, Jun 12, 1958,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/85-H-142/hr-12541-department-of-defense-reorganization-act-of-1958 (accessed 2026-10-17).