House roll call 162 · 79th Congress · May 23, 1946
H J RES 305. Joint resolution providing for membership and participation by the US in unesco, and authorizing an appropriation.
On May 23, 1946, the House voted 264–41 (HJRE 305). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 156–4, Republicans 107–38, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 42 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
- 264
- No
- 41
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- May 23, 1946
By party
- Democrats156 yes · 4 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Republicans107 yes · 38 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL voted no
- Jessie Sumner R-IL voted no
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- George W. Gillie R-IN voted no
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN voted no
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- James Glenn Beall R-MD voted no
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted no
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI voted no
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN voted no
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO voted no
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE voted no
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE voted no
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted no
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted no
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
- William Emil Hess R-OH voted no
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH voted no
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted no
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH voted no
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK voted no
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA voted no
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA voted no
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA voted no
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA voted no
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT
- Joseph Francis Ryter D-CT
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- 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
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Emily Taft Douglas D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees 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
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Charles Edgar Mckenzie D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- William James Gallagher D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Samuel James Ervin Jr. D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Sherman Adams R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh 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
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck 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
- Peter Anthony Quinn D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Augustus Witschief Bennet R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- George Frederick Rogers D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Edward Oscar Mccowen 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
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- John William Murphy D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Howard Edmond Campbell R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Harold Henderson Earthman D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- 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
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Robert Kirkland Henry R-WI
- 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
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- John Taber R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-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
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Helen Douglas Mankin D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- Dudley George Roe D-MD
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Frank Thomas Starkey D-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Berkeley Lloyd Bunker D-NV
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- James A. Roe D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- Edward Joseph Gardner D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- Herbert Joseph Mcglinchey D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- David Emmert Brumbaugh R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- John Kee D-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.
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