House roll call 230 · 79th Congress · Aug 2, 1946
H J RES. 225. To quiet the titles of the respective states, and others, to lands beneath tide-waters and lands beneath navigable waters w/in the boundaries of
On Aug 2, 1946, the House voted 139–95 (HJRE 225). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 131–8, Democrats 38–100, Others 0–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 46 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
- 139
- No
- 95
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- Aug 2, 1946
By party
- Democrats38 yes · 100 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Republicans131 yes · 8 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted yes
- Clair Engle D-CA voted yes
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted yes
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted yes
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA voted yes
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted yes
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL 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
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA voted yes
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted yes
- James Domengeaux D-LA voted yes
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA voted yes
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted no
- Dudley George Roe D-MD voted yes
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
- 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
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS voted yes
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC voted yes
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH voted no
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA voted no
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA voted no
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA voted no
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted yes
- John Jacob Riley D-SC voted yes
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted yes
- John William Wright Patman D-TX voted yes
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX voted yes
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX voted yes
- Albert Thomas D-TX voted yes
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted yes
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX voted yes
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX voted yes
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX voted yes
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX voted yes
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted yes
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- 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
- 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
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends 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
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Dudley George Roe D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith 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
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett 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
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Jerome Bayard Clark 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
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre 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
- Charles Henry Elston 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
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-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
- John Roland Kinzer 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
- David Emmert Brumbaugh R-PA
- Carl Henry Hoffman 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
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- 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
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- 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
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- 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
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac 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
- Helen Douglas Mankin D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- 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
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Alexander John Resa D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- 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 David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger 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
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer 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
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Peter Anthony Quinn D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Edward Joseph Gardner D-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson 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
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Oren Harris 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
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Ellis Ellwood Patterson D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT
- Joseph Francis Ryter D-CT
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Emily Taft Douglas D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole 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
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- 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
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- William James Gallagher D-MN
- Frank Thomas Starkey D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Graham Arthur Barden 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
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Berkeley Lloyd Bunker D-NV
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY
- James A. Roe D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers 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
- 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
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Herbert Joseph Mcglinchey D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Harold Henderson Earthman D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney 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
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- George Herman Mahon 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
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA
- 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
- 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
From Voteview roll call records.
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