House roll call 101 · 80th Congress · Mar 16, 1948
S 2182. Passage.
On Mar 16, 1948, the House voted 251–132 (S 2182). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 168–61, Democrats 92–78, Others 0–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 139 members voted against their own party.
During the 80th Congress (1947–1948), Harry S. Truman was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 251
- No
- 132
- Did not vote
- 18
- Date
- Mar 16, 1948
By party
- Democrats92 yes · 78 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans168 yes · 61 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR voted no
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ voted no
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted no
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted no
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA voted no
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted no
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- Charles Kimball Fletcher R-CA voted no
- John Albert Carroll D-CO voted no
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted no
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted no
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- John Stephens Wood 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
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Abe McGregor Goff R-ID voted no
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID voted no
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
- Thomas Leonard Owens R-IL voted no
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted no
- Roy Clippinger R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN voted no
- Ralph Harvey R-IN voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted no
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA voted no
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA voted no
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted no
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted no
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI voted no
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted no
- Howard Aldridge Coffin R-MI voted no
- Harold Francis Youngblood R-MI voted no
- John David Dingell D-MI voted no
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted no
- Harold Knutson R-MN voted no
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO voted no
- Max Schwabe R-MO voted no
- William Clay Cole R-MO voted no
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO voted no
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO voted no
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- Parke Monroe Banta R-MO voted no
- Frank Melvin Karsten 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 Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC voted no
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC voted no
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC voted no
- William Lemke R-ND 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
And 59 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Willis Winter Bradley R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Ellsworth Bishop Foote R-CT
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Robert Joseph Twyman R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- William Grant Stratton R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Wendell Howes Meade R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Hugh Allen Meade D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- George Edward Mackinnon R-MN
- Edward James Devitt R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Albert Lee Reeves Jr. R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Georgia Lee Lusk D-NM
- Charles Hinton Russell R-NV
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Gregory Mcmahon R-NY
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- Robert Joseph Nodar Jr. R-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- David Matthew Potts R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-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
- Raymond Hugh Burke R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Henderson Haverfield Carson R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Robert Neill Mcgarvey R-PA
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Franklin John Maloney R-PA
- George William Sarbacher Jr. R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- James Paul Scoblick R-PA
- Mitchell Jenkins R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- William Josiah Crow R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Robert James Corbett 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
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Homer Raymond Jones R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- John Charles Brophy R-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Francis Johnson Love R-WV
- Melvin Claude Snyder R-WV
- Edward Gay Rohrbough R-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
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Charles Kimball Fletcher R-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Abe McGregor Goff R-ID
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Thomas Leonard Owens R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Howard Aldridge Coffin R-MI
- Harold Francis Youngblood R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Parke Monroe Banta R-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Leo Isacson O-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Glen Dale Johnson D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Preston Elmer Peden D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson 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
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Edward Archibald Mitchell R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- James A. Gallagher R-PA
- E. Wallace Chadwick R-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
Did not vote
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- William Lewis R-KY
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Fred Barthold Norman R-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.