House roll call 148 · 78th Congress · Sep 18, 1944
Conference report on S. 2051, war mobilization and reconversion act of 1944, to insist on disagreement to Senate amendment providing that federal government wil
On Sep 18, 1944, the House voted 174–157 (S 2051). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 70–110, Republicans 118–58, Others 0–3. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 128 members voted against their own party.
During the 78th Congress (1943–1944), Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 174
- No
- 157
- Did not vote
- 38
- Date
- Sep 18, 1944
By party
- Democrats70 yes · 110 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Republicans118 yes · 58 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 3 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted yes
- George William Andrews D-AL voted yes
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted yes
- Joe Starnes D-AL voted yes
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL voted yes
- Carter Manasco D-AL voted yes
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL voted yes
- John Parks Newsome D-AL voted yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- James William Fulbright D-AR voted yes
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR voted yes
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted yes
- Oren Harris D-AR voted yes
- Thomas Rolph R-CA voted no
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA voted no
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA voted no
- John Martin Costello D-CA voted yes
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA voted no
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO voted no
- William Jennings Miller R-CT voted no
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT voted no
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT voted no
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL voted yes
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL voted yes
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted yes
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted yes
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted yes
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted yes
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted yes
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA voted yes
- Paul Brown D-GA voted yes
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted no
- Stephen Albion Day R-IL voted no
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN voted no
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted yes
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY voted yes
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted yes
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted yes
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA voted no
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted no
- David Jenkins Ward D-MD voted yes
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD voted yes
- Daniel Ellison R-MD voted no
- James Glenn Beall R-MD voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted no
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME voted no
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted no
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN voted no
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted yes
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS voted yes
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted yes
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted yes
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted yes
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted yes
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted yes
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted yes
- Cameron A. Morrison D-NC voted yes
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC voted yes
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- William Lemke R-ND voted no
- Foster Waterman Stearns R-NH voted no
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted no
- David Lane Powers R-NJ voted no
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ voted no
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted no
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ voted no
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY voted no
- Hamilton Fish R-NY voted no
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY voted no
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY voted no
And 48 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- John Parks Newsome D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Fulbright D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- John Dacher Mcwilliams R-CT
- C. H. Ranulf Compton R-CT
- Boleslaus Joseph Monkiewicz R-CT
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Charles Schuveldt Dewey R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Calvin Dean Johnson R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- James Vandaveer Heidinger R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- David Jenkins Ward D-MD
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- William Price Elmer R-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Louis Ebenezer Miller R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Cameron A. Morrison D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- Henderson Haverfield Carson R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Thomas Byron Miller R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- David Emmert Brumbaugh R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- William Irvin Troutman R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Thomas Rolph R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- William A. Rowan D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Stephen Albion Day R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Daniel Ellison R-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Foster Waterman Stearns R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Louis Joseph Capozzoli D-NY
- Thomas Francis Burchill D-NY
- James Herbert Fay D-NY
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- James H. Torrens D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Joseph Mruk R-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Winifred Claire Stanley R-NY
- Harry Palmer Jeffrey R-OH
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Edmund Rowe R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- James A. Gallagher R-PA
- Joseph Marmaduke Pratt R-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- Charles Frederick Pracht R-PA
- Francis John Myers D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- John William Murphy D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA
- Thomas Edward Scanlon D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Samuel Arthur Weiss D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- James Assion Wright D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Fred Barthold Norman R-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski D-WI
- Howard Johnstone Mcmurray D-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- LaVern Ralph Dilweg D-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Andrew Charles Schiffler R-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Edward Gay Rohrbough R-WV
- John Kee D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- William Ward Johnson R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Earle Dukes Willey R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Chester Otto Carrier R-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Charles Edgar Mckenzie D-LA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Richard Pillsbury Gale R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Maurice Joseph Sullivan D-NV
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- Joseph John O'Brien R-NY
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Jim Nance Mccord D-TN
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Did not vote
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- William Vann Rogers Jr. D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- William Howard Wheat R-IL
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen O-MN
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Robert Grant Furlong D-PA
- Willa Lybrand Fulmer D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Ralph Hunter Daughton D-VA
- Winder Russell Harris D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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