House roll call 225 · 79th Congress · Jul 31, 1946
S 1253. On adoption of conference report.
On Jul 31, 1946, the House voted 176–71 (S 1253). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 82–47, Republicans 93–23, Others 1–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 70 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
- 176
- No
- 71
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Jul 31, 1946
By party
- Democrats82 yes · 47 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Republicans93 yes · 23 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted no
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted no
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted no
- George Elmer Outland D-CA voted no
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA voted no
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT voted no
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT voted no
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- Helen Douglas Mankin D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- George Evan Howell R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN voted no
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN voted no
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted no
- James Domengeaux D-LA voted no
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA voted no
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted no
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted no
- Dudley George Roe D-MD voted no
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI voted no
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI voted no
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- Frank Thomas Starkey D-MN voted no
- William Clay Cole R-MO voted no
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO voted no
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO voted no
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
- Eliza Jane Pratt D-NC voted no
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted no
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ voted no
- John James Rooney D-NY voted no
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY voted no
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY voted no
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH voted no
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH voted no
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH voted no
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK voted no
- Ross Rizley R-OK voted no
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR voted no
- Herbert Joseph Mcglinchey D-PA voted no
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA voted no
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA voted no
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA voted no
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted no
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI voted no
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN voted no
- John William Wright Patman D-TX voted no
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX voted no
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX voted no
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX voted no
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX voted no
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT voted no
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA voted no
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA voted no
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-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
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA
- 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
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- William A. Rowan D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- William Walter Link D-IL
- Alexander John Resa 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
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Samuel James Ervin Jr. D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Peter Anthony Quinn D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Edward Joseph Gardner D-OH
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- Carl Henry Hoffman R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Howard Edmond Campbell R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- William Henry Stevenson 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
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Helen Douglas Mankin D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Dudley George Roe D-MD
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- Frank Thomas Starkey D-MN
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Eliza Jane Pratt D-NC
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Herbert Joseph Mcglinchey D-PA
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- 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
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Ellis Ellwood Patterson D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard 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
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- Emily Taft Douglas D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- 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
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Charles Edgar Mckenzie D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- William James Gallagher D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen 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
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller 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
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Berkeley Lloyd Bunker D-NV
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- James A. Roe 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
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- James H. Torrens D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Augustus Witschief Bennet R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- George Frederick Rogers D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- David Emmert Brumbaugh 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
- James Prioleau Richards 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
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. 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
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Robert Kirkland Henry R-WI
- Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski D-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- John Kee D-WV
Did not vote
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- James Vandaveer Heidinger R-IL
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Joseph Wilson Ervin D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- 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
From Voteview roll call records.
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