House roll call 26 · 79th Congress · Mar 27, 1945
H RES 52. Resolution authorizing the committee on immigration and naturalization to study basic problems affecting post-war immigration and naturalization.
On Mar 27, 1945, the House voted 182–113 (HRE 52). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 109–59, Republicans 73–55, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 114 members voted against their own party.
During the 79th Congress (1945–1946), Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 182
- No
- 113
- Did not vote
- 15
- Date
- Mar 27, 1945
By party
- Democrats109 yes · 59 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans73 yes · 55 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted no
- Carter Manasco D-AL voted no
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL voted no
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO voted no
- William Silas Hill R-CO voted no
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO voted no
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted no
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL voted no
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted no
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted no
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted no
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA voted no
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID voted no
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL voted no
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN voted no
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted no
- Frank Carlson R-KS voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY voted no
- James Domengeaux D-LA voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD voted no
- James Glenn Beall R-MD voted no
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted no
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted no
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI voted no
- William James Gallagher D-MN voted no
- Harold Knutson R-MN voted no
- Max Schwabe R-MO voted no
- William Clay Cole R-MO voted no
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO voted no
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO voted no
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO voted no
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO voted no
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted no
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted no
- Joseph Wilson Ervin D-NC voted no
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC voted no
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND voted no
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH voted no
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH voted no
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH voted no
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH voted no
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH voted no
- John Martin Vorys R-OH voted no
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH voted no
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH voted no
- William Richard Thom D-OH voted no
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH voted no
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK voted no
And 34 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- 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
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-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
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT
- Joseph Francis Ryter D-CT
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- William A. Rowan D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- William Walter Link D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Emily Taft Douglas D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers 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
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Frank Thomas Starkey D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Sherman Adams R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM
- Berkeley Lloyd Bunker D-NV
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley 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
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- George Frederick Rogers D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Herbert Joseph Mcglinchey D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Howard Edmond Campbell R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- 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
- Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-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
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- William James Gallagher D-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-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
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Joseph Wilson Ervin D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- John Taber R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith 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
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel 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
- 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
- Harold Henderson Earthman D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Voted present
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Alexander John Resa D-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Charles Edgar Mckenzie D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Dudley George Roe D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- 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
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- James H. Torrens D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Edward Joseph Gardner D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- John William Murphy D-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Samuel Arthur Weiss D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- Ralph Hunter Daughton D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Robert Kirkland Henry R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
Did not vote
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Helen Douglas Mankin D-GA
- James Vandaveer Heidinger R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Eliza Jane Pratt D-NC
- Samuel James Ervin Jr. D-NC
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Carl Henry Hoffman R-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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