House roll call 65 · 85th Congress · Aug 5, 1957
HR 6709. Authorize land grant to republic of panama with a committee amendment deleting a provision that an increase in annuity to panama be paid by the panama
On Aug 5, 1957, the House voted 279–91 (HR 6709). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 180–17, Republicans 99–74. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 91 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
- 279
- No
- 91
- Did not vote
- 11
- Date
- Aug 5, 1957
By party
- Democrats180 yes · 17 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans99 yes · 74 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT voted no
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted no
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID voted no
- Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL voted no
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL voted no
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL voted no
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
- Russell Watson Keeney R-IL voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Myron Virgil George R-KS voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- Eugene Siler R-KY voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted no
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD voted no
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME voted no
- George Meader R-MI voted no
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Robert John Mcintosh R-MI voted no
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI voted no
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Otto Krueger R-ND voted no
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE voted no
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY voted no
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY voted no
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY voted no
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY voted no
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY voted no
- John James Rooney D-NY voted no
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted no
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY voted no
- William Robert Williams R-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY voted no
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY voted no
- William Edward Miller R-NY voted no
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY voted no
- John Raymond Pillion 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
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted no
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown 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
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH voted no
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH voted no
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH voted no
- Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan D-PA voted no
- Benjamin Franklin James 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
And 11 more.
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
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- 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
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-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
- 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
- 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 Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-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
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- F. Jay Nimtz R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden 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
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- 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
- 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
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- Ludwig Teller D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Gould Polk D-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
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson 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
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-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 Jacob Riley D-SC
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Donald Edgar Tewes R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- 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
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Russell Watson Keeney R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Robert John Mcintosh R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- John Taber 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
- 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
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan D-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James 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
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. 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
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Did not vote
Other votes
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