House roll call 82 · 80th Congress · Dec 15, 1947
S 1774. Promote the general welfare, national interest, and foreign policy of the U.S. By providing supplies to certain european countries on an emergency basi
On Dec 15, 1947, the House voted 313–82 (S 1774). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 164–75, Democrats 155–12, Others 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 87 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
- 313
- No
- 82
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- Dec 15, 1947
By party
- Democrats155 yes · 12 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Republicans164 yes · 75 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted no
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA voted no
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID voted no
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL voted no
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL voted no
- Thomas Leonard Owens R-IL voted no
- Robert Joseph Twyman R-IL voted no
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted no
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL voted no
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted no
- Roy Clippinger R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN voted no
- 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
- Earl Wilson 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
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA voted no
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI voted no
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted no
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI voted no
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
- Harold Francis Youngblood R-MI voted no
- Harold Knutson 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
- Albert Lee Reeves Jr. R-MO voted no
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO voted no
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- Parke Monroe Banta R-MO voted no
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND voted no
- William Lemke R-ND voted no
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE voted no
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE voted no
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted no
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY voted no
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted no
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH voted no
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH voted no
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH voted no
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH voted no
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH voted no
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK voted no
- Glen Dale Johnson D-OK voted no
- Ross Rizley R-OK voted no
- Lowell Stockman R-OR voted no
- George William Sarbacher Jr. R-PA voted no
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA voted no
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA voted no
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD voted no
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN voted no
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN voted no
And 7 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- 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
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-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
- 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
- Willis Winter Bradley R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Charles Kimball Fletcher R-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-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
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- George Armistead Smathers 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
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- 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
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- William Grant Stratton R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Edward Archibald Mitchell R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- Howard Aldridge Coffin R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-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
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton 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
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Georgia Lee Lusk D-NM
- Charles Hinton Russell R-NV
- 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
- 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
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-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
- Edwin Arthur Hall 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
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-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
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Preston Elmer Peden D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- 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
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- E. Wallace Chadwick 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
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-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
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-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
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- 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
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West 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
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Homer Raymond Jones R-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- 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
- John Charles Brophy R-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Melvin Claude Snyder R-WV
- Edward Gay Rohrbough R-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- John Carfield Sanborn 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
- 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
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Roy Clippinger 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
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Harold Francis Youngblood R-MI
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Albert Lee Reeves Jr. R-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Parke Monroe Banta R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Glen Dale Johnson D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- George William Sarbacher Jr. R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Francis Johnson Love R-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
Voted present
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- David Matthew Potts R-NY
- James Paul Scoblick R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
Did not vote
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- John Albert Whitaker D-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
- Leo Isacson O-NY
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Fred Barthold Norman R-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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