House roll call 120 · 81st Congress · Oct 14, 1949
S 1008. Adoption of conference report.
On Oct 14, 1949, the House voted 200–104 (S 1008). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 91–116, Republicans 130–7, Others 0–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 98 members voted against their own party.
During the 81st Congress (1949–1950), Harry S. Truman was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 200
- No
- 104
- Did not vote
- 13
- Date
- Oct 14, 1949
By party
- Democrats91 yes · 116 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans130 yes · 7 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted yes
- George William Andrews D-AL voted yes
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL voted yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR voted yes
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted yes
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted yes
- Oren Harris D-AR voted yes
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ voted yes
- Clair Engle D-CA voted yes
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT voted yes
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL voted yes
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted yes
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted yes
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted yes
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted yes
- Neil Joseph Linehan D-IL voted yes
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL voted yes
- Martin Gorski D-IL voted yes
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted yes
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted yes
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL voted yes
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted yes
- Edward H. Kruse D-IN voted yes
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY voted yes
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted yes
- Brent Spence D-KY voted yes
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA voted yes
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted yes
- William P. Bolton D-MD voted yes
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted yes
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted yes
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD voted yes
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted yes
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted yes
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC voted yes
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted yes
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC voted yes
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC voted yes
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ voted yes
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted yes
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM voted yes
- John Esten Miles D-NM voted yes
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted no
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH voted yes
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted yes
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH voted yes
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted yes
- William Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer D-OK voted yes
- William Grady Stigler D-OK voted yes
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted yes
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK voted yes
- Toby Morris D-OK voted yes
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA voted yes
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA voted yes
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA voted yes
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA voted yes
- James Francis Lind D-PA voted yes
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA voted yes
- Harry James Davenport D-PA voted yes
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted yes
- Frank Buchanan D-PA voted yes
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted yes
- James Butler Hare D-SC voted yes
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN voted yes
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN voted yes
- James Percy Priest D-TN voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted yes
And 18 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- James Curran Davis 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
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Neil Joseph Linehan D-IL
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Edward H. Kruse D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-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
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- William P. Bolton 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
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- 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
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- 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
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Esten Miles D-NM
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer D-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-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
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Harry James Davenport D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- James Butler Hare D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Russell Vernon Mack R-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
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- John Henry Marsalis D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Thurman Charles Crook D-IN
- John Richard Walsh D-IN
- James Ellsworth Noland D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Raymond Willard Karst D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- James Joseph Murphy D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. O-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY
- Earl Thomas Wagner D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- George Howard Wilson D-OK
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Hugo Sheridan Sims Jr. D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
Voted present
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
Did not vote
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Robert Lewis Coffey Jr. D-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Ben Hugh Guill R-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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