House roll call 60 · 85th Congress · Aug 1, 1957
HR 8643. Authorize new york state to construct power project at niagara falls. Passed. Yea supports President's position.
On Aug 1, 1957, the House voted 313–75 (HR 8643). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 197–10, Republicans 117–66. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 76 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
- 313
- No
- 75
- Did not vote
- 11
- Date
- Aug 1, 1957
By party
- Democrats197 yes · 10 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans117 yes · 66 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA voted no
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA voted no
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA voted no
- H. Allen Smith R-CA voted no
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA voted no
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA voted no
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted no
- Harry Garner Haskell Jr. R-DE voted no
- William Cato Cramer R-FL voted no
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL voted no
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL voted no
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL voted no
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL voted no
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- William Lee Springer R-IL voted no
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted no
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- William Henry Avery R-KS voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Eugene Siler R-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted no
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO voted no
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted no
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY voted no
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH voted no
- William Emil Hess R-OH voted no
- Paul Fornshell Schenck 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
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH voted no
- John Earl Henderson R-OH voted no
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH voted no
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH voted no
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH voted no
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK voted no
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA voted no
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA voted no
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA voted no
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA voted no
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA voted no
- Daniel John Flood D-PA voted no
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA voted no
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA voted no
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA voted no
- Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA voted no
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA voted no
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA voted no
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA voted no
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX voted no
- William Munford Tuck D-VA voted no
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA voted no
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI voted no
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI voted no
- John William Byrnes R-WI voted no
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV voted no
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV voted no
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV voted no
- William Elmer Neal R-WV voted no
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV voted no
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV voted no
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
- 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
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-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
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- James Roosevelt 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
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes 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 Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham 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
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Russell Watson Keeney R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- F. Jay Nimtz R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-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
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- 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
- 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
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-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
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- 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
- 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
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Roy William Wier D-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
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon 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
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick 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
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-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
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Vincent John Dellay R-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- 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
- James Joseph Delaney 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
- Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- Ludwig Teller D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley 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
- 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
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert 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
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark 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 Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill 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 Landon Evins D-TN
- Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-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
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith 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
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Donald Edgar Tewes R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Harry Garner Haskell Jr. R-DE
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- David Short Dennison R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- 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
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- William Elmer Neal R-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Did not vote
Other votes
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