House roll call 110 · 87th Congress · Sep 21, 1961
H.R. 4172. Establish federal advisory council on the arts. Rejected.
On Sep 21, 1961, the House voted 166–173 (HR 4172). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 135–72, Republicans 31–101. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 103 members voted against their own party.
During the 87th Congress (1961–1962), John F. Kennedy was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 166
- No
- 173
- Did not vote
- 15
- Date
- Sep 21, 1961
By party
- Democrats135 yes · 72 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Republicans31 yes · 101 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- Thomas Dale Alford D-AR voted no
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted yes
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted yes
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. 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
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted no
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- John William Davis D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted yes
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL voted no
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- John Edward Roush D-IN voted no
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS voted yes
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS voted no
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA voted yes
- Hastings Keith R-MA voted yes
- Laurence Curtis R-MA voted yes
- Daniel Baugh Brewster D-MD voted no
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted no
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD voted yes
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME voted yes
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI voted no
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted yes
- Clark Macgregor R-MN voted yes
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted no
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC voted no
- Alton Asa Lennon 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
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted no
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted yes
- Perkins Bass R-NH voted yes
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY voted no
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY voted yes
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted yes
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY voted yes
- Jessica McCullough Weis R-NY voted yes
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH voted no
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH voted yes
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH voted yes
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted no
- John Jarman D-OK voted no
- William Warren Scranton R-PA voted yes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA voted yes
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA voted yes
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA voted yes
And 23 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Clement Woodnutt Miller D-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-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
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Frank Kowalski D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Daniel Ken Inouye D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Ralph R. Harding 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
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Edward Rowan Finnegan D-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-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
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane 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
- Thomas Francis Johnson D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Jessica McCullough Weis R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Robert Eugene Cook D-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-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
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham 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
- William Warren Scranton R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli 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
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Morris Blaine Peterson D-UT
- David Sjodahl King D-UT
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki 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
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Thomas Dale Alford D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- William Cato Cramer R-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
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- James Edward Bromwell R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Donald Cogley Bruce R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Walter Lewis Mcvey Jr. R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Daniel Baugh Brewster D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Peter Adams Garland R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Horace Robinson Kornegay 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
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Hjalmar Carl Nygaard R-ND
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Ralph Frederick Beermann R-NE
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy 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
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Tom Van Horn Moorehead R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Edwin Russell Durno R-OR
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin 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
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Louise Goff Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- William Robert Poage 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
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Voted present
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Catherine Dorris Norrell D-AR
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Peter Hoyt Dominick R-CO
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Don Levingston Short R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- 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
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
Did not vote
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- George O. Chambers R-IN
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Harold Martin Ryan D-MI
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Corinne Boyd Riley D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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