House roll call 115 · 80th Congress · Apr 26, 1948
S 1481. Authorize the board of commissioners of d.c. To establish daylight saving time in the district. Passage.
On Apr 26, 1948, the House voted 204–92 (S 1481). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 127–48, Democrats 75–44, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 92 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
- 204
- No
- 92
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Apr 26, 1948
By party
- Democrats75 yes · 44 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans127 yes · 48 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- John Phillips R-CA voted no
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted no
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted no
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA voted no
- Karl Miles Le Compte 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
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted no
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA voted no
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted no
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD voted no
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- Harold Knutson R-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO voted no
- Max Schwabe R-MO voted no
- William Clay Cole R-MO voted no
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO voted no
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Jerome Bayard Clark 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
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted no
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted no
- Georgia Lee Lusk D-NM voted no
- William Sterling Cole R-NY voted no
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted no
- John Martin Vorys R-OH voted no
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH voted no
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH voted no
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK voted no
- Toby Morris D-OK voted no
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR voted no
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA voted no
- John Jacob Riley D-SC voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC voted no
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD voted no
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD voted no
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted no
- Jere Cooper D-TN voted no
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX voted no
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX voted no
And 12 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch 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
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Willis Winter Bradley R-CA
- Charles Kimball Fletcher R-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- 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
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Abe McGregor Goff R-ID
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Leonard Owens R-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Robert Joseph Twyman R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Edward Archibald Mitchell R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence 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
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Hugh Allen Meade D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener 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
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Howard Aldridge Coffin R-MI
- Harold Francis Youngblood R-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- George Edward Mackinnon R-MN
- Edward James Devitt R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Albert Lee Reeves Jr. R-MO
- Parke Monroe Banta R-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- 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
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández 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 Joseph Nodar Jr. R-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Leo Isacson O-NY
- David Matthew Potts R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Raymond Hugh Burke R-OH
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Henderson Haverfield Carson R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Preston Elmer Peden D-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- George William Sarbacher Jr. R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- William Josiah Crow R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- Dayton Edward Phillips 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
- 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
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Francis Johnson Love R-WV
- Melvin Claude Snyder R-WV
- Edward Gay Rohrbough R-WV
- John Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown 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
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Georgia Lee Lusk D-NM
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- John Charles Brophy R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- 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
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- William Grant Stratton R-IL
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Glen Dale Johnson D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- James A. Gallagher R-PA
- Robert Neill Mcgarvey R-PA
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Franklin John Maloney R-PA
- E. Wallace Chadwick 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
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Homer Raymond Jones R-WA
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Did not vote
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Earle C. Clements 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
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- 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
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
- Fred Barthold Norman R-WA
Other votes
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