House roll call 64 · 80th Congress · Jul 15, 1947
HR 3813. Provide for removal from, and the prevention of appointment to offices or po sitions in the executive branch of persons who are found to be disloyal t
On Jul 15, 1947, the House voted 133–248 (HR 3813). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 33–197, Democrats 109–61, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 94 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
- 133
- No
- 248
- Did not vote
- 20
- Date
- Jul 15, 1947
By party
- Democrats109 yes · 61 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans33 yes · 197 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Carter Manasco D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA voted no
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA voted yes
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA voted yes
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA voted yes
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA voted yes
- William Jennings Miller R-CT voted yes
- John Davis Lodge R-CT voted yes
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted no
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL voted no
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson 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
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA voted yes
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- Earle C. Clements D-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted no
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- James Domengeaux D-LA 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
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted yes
- George Joseph Bates R-MA voted yes
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA voted yes
- Hugh Allen Meade D-MD voted no
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted yes
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME voted yes
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted no
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted no
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC voted no
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC voted no
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC voted no
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted yes
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ voted yes
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ voted yes
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted yes
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted yes
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY voted yes
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH voted yes
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH voted yes
- George Harrison Bender R-OH voted yes
- William Grady Stigler D-OK voted no
- Preston Elmer Peden D-OK voted no
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR voted yes
- James Grove Fulton R-PA voted yes
- John Jacob Riley D-SC voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC voted no
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN voted no
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN voted no
And 14 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Georgia Lee Lusk D-NM
- 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
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-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
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-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
- Glen Dale Johnson D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague 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
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- John Charles Brophy R-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- 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
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Willis Winter Bradley R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Charles Kimball Fletcher R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Ellsworth Bishop Foote 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
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson 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
- 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
- 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
- Robert Joseph Twyman R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- William Grant Stratton R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- 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
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Earle C. Clements 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
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Hugh Allen Meade D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman 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
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Howard Aldridge Coffin R-MI
- Harold Francis Youngblood 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
- Harold Christian Hagen 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
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Parke Monroe Banta R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson 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
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- 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
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-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
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Raymond Hugh Burke R-OH
- Robert Franklin Jones 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
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- Henderson Haverfield Carson R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Preston Elmer Peden D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- James A. Gallagher R-PA
- 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
- E. Wallace Chadwick 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
- 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
- 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
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. 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
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Francis Johnson Love R-WV
- Melvin Claude Snyder R-WV
- Edward Gay Rohrbough R-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- John Kee D-WV
Did not vote
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- William Lewis R-KY
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Leo Isacson O-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Fred Barthold Norman R-WA
Other votes
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