House roll call 144 · 79th Congress · Apr 17, 1946
To amend 6042.
On Apr 17, 1946, the House voted 172–223 (HR 6042). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 44–177, Republicans 135–51, Others 0–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 95 members voted against their own party.
During the 79th Congress (1945–1946), Harry S. Truman was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 172
- No
- 223
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- Apr 17, 1946
By party
- Democrats44 yes · 177 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Republicans135 yes · 51 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR voted yes
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted yes
- Clair Engle D-CA voted yes
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted no
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA voted yes
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA voted yes
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA voted no
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA voted no
- William Silas Hill R-CO voted no
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT voted no
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE voted yes
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL voted yes
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted yes
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID voted yes
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL voted yes
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN voted no
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN voted no
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted yes
- James Domengeaux D-LA voted yes
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted yes
- Charles Edgar Mckenzie D-LA voted yes
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA voted yes
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted no
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA voted no
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
- George Joseph Bates R-MA voted no
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA voted no
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted no
- Dudley George Roe D-MD voted yes
- James Glenn Beall R-MD voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted no
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME voted no
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI voted no
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO voted yes
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS voted yes
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted yes
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted yes
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted yes
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted yes
- Samuel James Ervin Jr. D-NC voted yes
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted no
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted no
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ voted no
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ voted no
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ voted no
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted no
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ voted no
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ voted no
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ voted no
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted no
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM voted yes
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY voted no
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY voted no
- Augustus Witschief Bennet R-NY voted no
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY voted no
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY voted no
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY voted no
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY voted no
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY voted no
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH voted no
- George Harrison Bender R-OH voted no
- Paul Stewart D-OK voted yes
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK voted yes
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK voted yes
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR voted no
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR voted no
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA voted no
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA voted no
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted no
And 15 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Edward Austin Kelly D-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
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Roy Clippinger 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
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Charles Edgar Mckenzie D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Dudley George Roe D-MD
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Samuel James Ervin Jr. D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Sherman Adams R-NH
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn 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
- 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
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich 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
- Howard Edmond Campbell R-PA
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Harold Henderson Earthman D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Ellis Ellwood Patterson D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT
- Joseph Francis Ryter D-CT
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Helen Douglas Mankin D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- 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
- William Walter Link D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Alexander John Resa D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Emily Taft Douglas D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-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
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- William James Gallagher D-MN
- Frank Thomas Starkey D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Berkeley Lloyd Bunker D-NV
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- James A. Roe D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- James H. Torrens D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Peter Anthony Quinn D-NY
- Augustus Witschief Bennet R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- George Frederick Rogers D-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Edward Joseph Gardner D-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-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
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Herbert Joseph Mcglinchey D-PA
- John William Murphy D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Ralph Hunter Daughton D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Kirkland Henry R-WI
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
Did not vote
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- James Vandaveer Heidinger R-IL
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Eliza Jane Pratt D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Joseph Wilson Ervin D-NC
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Carl Henry Hoffman R-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Samuel Arthur Weiss D-PA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.