House roll call 128 · 80th Congress · May 24, 1948
H RES 603. Resolution providing for the consideration of HR 6227, a bill to provide for home rule and reorganization of d.c.
On May 24, 1948, the House voted 177–147 (HRE 603). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 135–63, Democrats 52–94. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 115 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
- 177
- No
- 147
- Did not vote
- 18
- Date
- May 24, 1948
By party
- Democrats52 yes · 94 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans135 yes · 63 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- James William Trimble D-AR voted yes
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted yes
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ voted yes
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ voted yes
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted yes
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted yes
- Willis Winter Bradley R-CA voted no
- John Albert Carroll D-CO voted yes
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL voted yes
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Abe McGregor Goff R-ID voted no
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL voted no
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL voted no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted yes
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted yes
- Thomas Leonard Owens R-IL voted no
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted yes
- Robert Joseph Twyman R-IL voted no
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL voted no
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted yes
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted yes
- George W. Gillie R-IN voted no
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN voted no
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN voted no
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN voted no
- Ralph Harvey R-IN voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted yes
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA voted yes
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA voted yes
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted yes
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD voted no
- Hugh Allen Meade D-MD voted yes
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted yes
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD voted yes
- Frank Fellows R-ME voted no
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted yes
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- John David Dingell D-MI voted yes
- John Lesinski D-MI voted yes
- George Edward Mackinnon R-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted yes
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted no
- Max Schwabe R-MO voted no
- William Clay Cole R-MO voted no
- Parke Monroe Banta R-MO voted no
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO voted no
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted yes
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT voted yes
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC voted yes
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE voted no
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted yes
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ voted yes
- Robert Joseph Nodar Jr. R-NY voted no
- John James Rooney D-NY voted yes
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY voted yes
- Arthur George Klein D-NY voted yes
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted yes
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted yes
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY voted yes
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY voted yes
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY voted no
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY voted no
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH voted no
- William Emil Hess R-OH voted no
- Raymond Hugh Burke R-OH voted no
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH voted no
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH voted no
And 35 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. 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
- John Phillips R-CA
- Charles Kimball Fletcher R-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth 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
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-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
- Edward Archibald Mitchell R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Hugh Allen Meade D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon 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
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Howard Aldridge Coffin R-MI
- Harold Francis Youngblood R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Edward James Devitt R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Albert Lee Reeves Jr. R-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Charles Hinton Russell R-NV
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Gregory Mcmahon R-NY
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch 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
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor 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
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Robert Neill Mcgarvey R-PA
- George William Sarbacher Jr. R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague 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
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- William Josiah Crow R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- 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
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Francis Johnson Love R-WV
- John Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs 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
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Willis Winter Bradley R-CA
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers 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
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Abe McGregor Goff R-ID
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Thomas Leonard Owens R-IL
- Robert Joseph Twyman R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- George Edward Mackinnon R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Parke Monroe Banta R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-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
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Robert Joseph Nodar Jr. R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Raymond Hugh Burke R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- Henderson Haverfield Carson R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Preston Elmer Peden D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-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
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. 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
- Kenneth Mills Regan 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
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Melvin Claude Snyder R-WV
- Edward Gay Rohrbough R-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Voted present
- Clair Engle D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-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
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- William Grant Stratton R-IL
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Wendell Howes Meade R-KY
- William Lewis R-KY
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Georgia Lee Lusk D-NM
- Henry Jepson Latham R-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
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Leo Isacson O-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Glen Dale Johnson D-OK
- James A. Gallagher R-PA
- Franklin John Maloney R-PA
- E. Wallace Chadwick R-PA
- James Paul Scoblick R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
Did not vote
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion 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
From Voteview roll call records.
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