House roll call 21 · 86th Congress · May 21, 1959
S. 57. Housing act of 1959. Amend to make additional funds available only upon enactment of appropriations bills. Agreed to.
On May 21, 1959, the House voted 222–201 (S 57). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 80–197, Republicans 144–7, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 87 members voted against their own party.
During the 86th Congress (1959–1960), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 222
- No
- 201
- Did not vote
- 9
- Date
- May 21, 1959
By party
- Democrats80 yes · 197 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
- Republicans144 yes · 7 no · 5 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George William Andrews D-AL voted yes
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- Oren Harris D-AR voted yes
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted yes
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted no
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted yes
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted yes
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted yes
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted yes
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted yes
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted yes
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA voted yes
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted yes
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN voted yes
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted yes
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted yes
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted yes
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted yes
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted yes
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA voted yes
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted yes
- Thomas Francis Johnson D-MD voted yes
- Daniel Baugh Brewster D-MD voted yes
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted yes
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD voted yes
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted yes
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted yes
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted yes
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted yes
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS voted yes
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted yes
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted yes
- Ralph James Scott D-NC voted yes
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted yes
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC voted yes
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted yes
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC voted yes
- David McKee Hall D-NC voted yes
- Lawrence Brock D-NE voted yes
- Donald Francis Mcginley D-NE voted yes
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted no
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted no
- Seymour Halpern R-NY voted no
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY voted no
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY voted no
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted no
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted yes
- Robert Eugene Cook D-OH voted yes
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted yes
- John Jarman D-OK voted yes
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted yes
- John Jacob Riley D-SC voted yes
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted yes
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC voted yes
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC voted yes
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted yes
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted yes
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN voted yes
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX voted yes
- Albert Thomas D-TX voted yes
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX voted yes
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted yes
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted yes
And 7 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Thomas Dale Alford O-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Craig Hosmer 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
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Elijah Lewis Forrester 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
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman 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
- Edna Oakes Simpson R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas Francis Johnson D-MD
- Daniel Baugh Brewster D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- 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
- 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
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones 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
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Ralph James Scott 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
- David McKee Hall D-NC
- Don Levingston Short R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Lawrence Brock D-NE
- Donald Francis Mcginley D-NE
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Jessica McCullough Weis R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller 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
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Robert Eugene Cook D-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague 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
- James Edward Van Zandt 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
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- 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
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary 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
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Clement Woodnutt Miller D-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- George Albert Kasem D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Byron Lindberg Johnson D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Chester Bliss Bowles D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Donald Jay Irwin D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Frank Kowalski D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Harlan Erwin Mitchell D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Leonard George Wolf D-IA
- Steven V. Carter D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Fred Wampler D-IN
- Earl Lee Hogan D-IN
- Randall S. Harmon D-IN
- Joseph Walker Barr D-IN
- Newell Adolphus George D-KS
- Denver David Hargis D-KS
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- Frank Welsh Burke D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- John Robert Foley D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver D-ME
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Quentin Northrup Burdick D-ND
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Seymour Halpern 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
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- John Vliet Lindsay 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
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH
- Robert Woodrow Levering D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert 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
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Herman Toll D-PA
- Stanley A. Prokop D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- George Stanley Mcgovern D-SD
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
- Ross Bass 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
- 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
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- David Sjodahl King D-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- William Henry Meyer D-VT
- Gerald Thomas Flynn D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Voted present
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Did not vote
- Daniel Ken Inouye D-HI
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Douglas Hemphill Elliott R-PA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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