House roll call 177 · 81st Congress · May 1, 1950
HR 7185. Amend public law 359, chapter 287, 78th Congress, 2nd session.
On May 1, 1950, the House voted 209–94 (HR 7185). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 143–76, Republicans 96–31, Others 0–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 107 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
- 209
- No
- 94
- Did not vote
- 15
- Date
- May 1, 1950
By party
- Democrats143 yes · 76 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans96 yes · 31 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted no
- John Francis Shelley D-CA voted no
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted no
- John Phillips R-CA voted no
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA voted no
- John Albert Carroll D-CO voted no
- John Henry Marsalis D-CO voted no
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT voted no
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT voted no
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted no
- Neil Joseph Linehan D-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted no
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL voted no
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted no
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
- William Henry Bates R-MA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted no
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA voted no
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted no
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted no
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted no
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell D-MI voted no
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO voted no
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO voted no
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted no
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE voted no
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH voted no
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ voted no
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ voted no
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted no
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted no
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM voted no
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted no
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY voted no
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY voted no
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY voted no
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY voted no
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY voted no
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY voted no
- John James Rooney D-NY voted no
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY voted no
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY voted no
- Arthur George Klein D-NY voted no
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted no
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY voted no
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY voted no
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY voted no
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY voted no
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY voted no
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY voted no
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY voted no
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY voted no
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH voted no
- Earl Thomas Wagner D-OH voted no
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted no
And 27 more.
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
- 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
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-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
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes 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
- 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
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs D-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
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-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
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- William P. Bolton D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Frank Fellows 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
- 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
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Raymond Willard Karst 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
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- James Joseph Murphy D-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
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-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
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- George Howard Wilson D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns 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
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- 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
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray 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
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-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
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Neil Joseph Linehan D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- Robert Hale R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer 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
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. O-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
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- Earl Thomas Wagner D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley 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
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
Voted present
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Clair Engle D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Thurman Charles Crook D-IN
- Edward H. Kruse D-IN
- John Richard Walsh D-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- James Ellsworth Noland D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Esten Miles D-NM
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Harry James Davenport D-PA
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- John William Byrnes R-WI
Did not vote
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- George Joseph 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
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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