House roll call 193 · 85th Congress · Aug 23, 1958
HR 13247. National defense education act of 1958 authorizing funds for seven year program of federal assistance to students and schools. Conference report. A
On Aug 23, 1958, the House voted 212–85 (HR 13247). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 152–34, Republicans 81–72. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 106 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
- 212
- No
- 85
- Did not vote
- 14
- Date
- Aug 23, 1958
By party
- Democrats152 yes · 34 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans81 yes · 72 no · 7 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA voted no
- H. Allen Smith R-CA voted no
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA voted no
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID voted no
- Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL voted no
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted no
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- William Lee Springer R-IL voted no
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted no
- F. Jay Nimtz R-IN voted no
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted no
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN voted no
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- Ralph Harvey R-IN voted no
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- William Henry Bates R-MA voted no
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon 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
- Ralph James Scott D-NC voted no
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC voted no
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted no
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC voted no
- Otto Krueger R-ND voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE voted no
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted no
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY voted no
- Frank John Becker R-NY voted no
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY voted no
- William Robert Williams R-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY voted no
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH voted no
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted no
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted no
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH voted no
- David Short Dennison R-OH voted no
- John Martin Vorys R-OH voted no
- John Earl Henderson R-OH voted no
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH voted no
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH voted no
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted no
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH voted no
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH voted no
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA voted no
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA voted no
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA voted no
- Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA voted no
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted no
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA voted no
And 26 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- 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
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- 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
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-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
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- James Floyd Breeding D-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
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-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
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Robert John Mcintosh R-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-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
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith 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
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- 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
- 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
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Albert Henry Bosch 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
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Ludwig Teller D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- 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
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin 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
- John Herman Dent 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
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- George Stanley Mcgovern D-SD
- 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
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- 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
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- William Lee Springer 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
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Clarence Andrew Cannon 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
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- David Short Dennison R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Clair Engle D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Harlan Erwin Mitchell D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Vincent John Dellay D-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- William Elmer Neal R-WV
Did not vote
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Russell Watson Keeney R-IL
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Vincent John Dellay R-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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