House roll call 77 · 86th Congress · Sep 3, 1959
HR 8678. Federal aid highway act of 1959. Raise federal tax on gasoline. Passed. Yea supports President's position.
On Sep 3, 1959, the House voted 243–162 (HR 8678). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 139–134, Republicans 110–35, Others 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 169 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
- 243
- No
- 162
- Did not vote
- 7
- Date
- Sep 3, 1959
By party
- Democrats139 yes · 134 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
- Republicans110 yes · 35 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK voted no
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted no
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted no
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA voted no
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Harlan Erwin Mitchell D-GA voted no
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Daniel Ken Inouye D-HI voted no
- Leonard George Wolf D-IA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Steven V. Carter D-IA voted no
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA voted no
- Merwin Coad D-IA voted no
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL voted no
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL voted no
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL voted no
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
- Edna Oakes Simpson R-IL voted no
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted no
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- John Brademas D-IN voted no
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted no
- John Edward Roush D-IN voted no
- Fred Wampler D-IN voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN voted no
- Earl Lee Hogan D-IN voted no
- Randall S. Harmon D-IN voted no
- Joseph Walker Barr D-IN voted no
- Denver David Hargis D-KS voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA voted no
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted no
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted no
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME voted no
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI voted no
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI voted no
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted no
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted no
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO 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
- LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT voted no
And 89 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Clement Woodnutt Miller D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-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
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-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
- George Albert Kasem D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Byron Lindberg Johnson D-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-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
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Newell Adolphus George D-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Welsh Burke D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas Francis Johnson D-MD
- Daniel Baugh Brewster D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- John Robert Foley D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver D-ME
- 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
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Don Levingston Short R-ND
- Quentin Northrup Burdick D-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-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
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Jessica McCullough Weis R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag 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
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH
- Robert Eugene Cook D-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Charles Orlando Porter D-OR
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Stanley A. Prokop D-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
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- 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
- Robert Ashton Everett 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
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- David Sjodahl King D-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly 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
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow 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
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- Thomas Dale Alford O-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Harlan Erwin Mitchell D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Daniel Ken Inouye D-HI
- Leonard George Wolf D-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Steven V. Carter D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Edna Oakes Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Fred Wampler D-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Lee Hogan D-IN
- Randall S. Harmon D-IN
- Joseph Walker Barr D-IN
- Denver David Hargis D-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- 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
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
- 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
- LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Lawrence Brock D-NE
- Donald Francis Mcginley D-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- 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
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-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
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Robert Woodrow Levering D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green 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
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- 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
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- 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
- William Henry Meyer D-VT
- Gerald Thomas Flynn D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
Voted present
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- David McKee Hall D-NC
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Did not vote
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-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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