House roll call 135 · 80th Congress · Jun 2, 1948
S 1641. Establish the women's army corps in the regular army, authorize the enlistment and appointment of women in the regular navy and marine corps and in the
On Jun 2, 1948, the House voted 206–133 (S 1641). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 89–115, Democrats 116–19, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 108 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
- 206
- No
- 133
- Did not vote
- 18
- Date
- Jun 2, 1948
By party
- Democrats116 yes · 19 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans89 yes · 115 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted no
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted no
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA voted yes
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA voted yes
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA voted yes
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA voted yes
- Charles Kimball Fletcher R-CA voted yes
- William Jennings Miller R-CT voted yes
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted yes
- Ellsworth Bishop Foote R-CT voted yes
- John Davis Lodge R-CT voted yes
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted yes
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT voted yes
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE voted yes
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted no
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted yes
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted yes
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted yes
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted yes
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL voted yes
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted yes
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS voted yes
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted yes
- Wint Smith R-KS voted yes
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY voted yes
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- Wendell Howes Meade R-KY voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted yes
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA voted yes
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted yes
- George Joseph Bates R-MA voted yes
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA voted yes
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA voted yes
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted yes
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD voted yes
- James Glenn Beall R-MD voted yes
- Robert Hale R-ME voted yes
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI voted yes
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted yes
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI voted yes
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI voted yes
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
- Harold Francis Youngblood R-MI voted yes
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted yes
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO voted no
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO voted yes
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT voted yes
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted no
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC voted no
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted yes
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ voted yes
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ voted yes
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ voted yes
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted yes
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted yes
- Charles Hinton Russell R-NV voted yes
- Gregory Mcmahon R-NY voted yes
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY voted yes
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY voted yes
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY voted yes
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY voted yes
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY voted yes
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY voted yes
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY voted yes
- Raymond Hugh Burke R-OH voted yes
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH voted yes
And 28 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews 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
- James William Trimble D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Charles Kimball Fletcher R-CA
- 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
- 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
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Wendell Howes Meade R-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-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
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Harold Francis Youngblood R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Charles Hinton Russell R-NV
- Gregory Mcmahon R-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Leo Isacson O-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- Raymond Hugh Burke R-OH
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Henderson Haverfield Carson R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Preston Elmer Peden D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Franklin John Maloney R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- E. Wallace Chadwick R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Dayton Edward Phillips 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
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas 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
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Homer Raymond Jones R-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Edward Gay Rohrbough R-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Willis Winter Bradley R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Abe McGregor Goff R-ID
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Edward Archibald Mitchell R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- Howard Aldridge Coffin R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- George Edward Mackinnon R-MN
- Edward James Devitt R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Albert Lee Reeves Jr. R-MO
- Parke Monroe Banta R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr 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
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- David Matthew Potts R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- James A. Gallagher R-PA
- Robert Neill Mcgarvey R-PA
- George William Sarbacher Jr. R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. 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
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- John Charles Brophy R-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Francis Johnson Love R-WV
- Melvin Claude Snyder R-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Voted present
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Thomas Leonard Owens R-IL
- Robert Joseph Twyman R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- William Grant Stratton R-IL
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- William Lewis R-KY
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Georgia Lee Lusk D-NM
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Robert Joseph Nodar Jr. R-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Glen Dale Johnson D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- James Paul Scoblick R-PA
- Mitchell Jenkins R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- John Kee D-WV
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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