House roll call 145 · 81st Congress · Feb 22, 1950
HR 4453. On question of consideration.
On Feb 22, 1950, the House voted 271–133 (HR 4453). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 141–112, Republicans 135–28, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 140 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
- 271
- No
- 133
- Did not vote
- 14
- Date
- Feb 22, 1950
By party
- Democrats141 yes · 112 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans135 yes · 28 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted no
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted no
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL voted no
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- James William Trimble D-AR voted no
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR voted no
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ voted no
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA voted no
- John Phillips R-CA voted no
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. 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
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham 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
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted no
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted no
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY voted no
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA voted no
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA voted no
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted no
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted no
- Frank Fellows R-ME voted no
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Clare Magee D-MO voted no
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC voted no
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC voted no
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted no
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC voted no
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC voted no
And 60 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Henry Marsalis D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross 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
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Neil Joseph Linehan D-IL
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Thurman Charles Crook D-IN
- Edward H. Kruse D-IN
- John Richard Walsh D-IN
- James Ellsworth Noland D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin 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
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. 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
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-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
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Raymond Willard Karst D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-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
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly 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
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-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
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-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
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- Earl Thomas Wagner D-OH
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-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
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-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
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-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
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
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
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott 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
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. 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
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- 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
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-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
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Esten Miles D-NM
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer D-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- George Howard Wilson D-OK
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Hugo Sheridan Sims Jr. D-SC
- James Butler Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen 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
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
Voted present
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
Did not vote
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Andrew Lawrence Somers 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
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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