House roll call 215 · 79th Congress · Jul 27, 1946
H J RES 225. Joint resolution to quiet the titles of the respective states to lands b eneath navigable waters within the boundaries of such states, and to prev
On Jul 27, 1946, the House voted 188–67 (HJRE 225). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 123–5, Democrats 65–61, Others 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 66 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
- 188
- No
- 67
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- Jul 27, 1946
By party
- Democrats65 yes · 61 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Republicans123 yes · 5 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted no
- James William Trimble D-AR voted no
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted no
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ voted no
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ voted no
- George Elmer Outland D-CA voted no
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA voted no
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA voted no
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted no
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT voted no
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT voted no
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT voted no
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID voted no
- William A. Rowan D-IL voted no
- Martin Gorski D-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- William Walter Link D-IL voted no
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted no
- Alexander John Resa D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Emily Taft Douglas D-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN voted no
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted no
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD voted no
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted no
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI voted no
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski D-MI voted no
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO voted no
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC voted no
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY voted no
- Edward Joseph Gardner D-OH voted no
- Walter B. Huber D-OH voted no
- William Richard Thom D-OH voted no
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted no
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted no
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK voted no
- Daniel John Flood D-PA voted no
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA voted no
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA voted no
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted no
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA voted no
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
- Frank Buchanan D-PA voted no
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI voted no
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN voted no
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT voted no
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA voted no
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA voted no
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA voted no
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA
- 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
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield 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
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Dudley George Roe D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- John David Dingell D-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
- Marion Tinsley Bennett 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
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Eliza Jane Pratt D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Samuel James Ervin Jr. D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- 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
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton 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
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Howard Edmond Campbell R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Robert Kirkland Henry R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- William A. Rowan D-IL
- Martin Gorski 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
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Edward Joseph Gardner D-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Ellis Ellwood Patterson D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- Joseph Francis Ryter D-CT
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Helen Douglas Mankin D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Charles Edgar Mckenzie D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- William James Gallagher D-MN
- Frank Thomas Starkey D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Sherman Adams R-NH
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Berkeley Lloyd Bunker D-NV
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY
- 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
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Augustus Witschief Bennet R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- George Frederick Rogers D-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- 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
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- David Emmert Brumbaugh R-PA
- Carl Henry Hoffman R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Harold Henderson Earthman D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Ralph Hunter Daughton D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski D-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
Did not vote
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- James Vandaveer Heidinger R-IL
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- 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
- John William Murphy D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Samuel Arthur Weiss D-PA
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
Other votes
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