House roll call 219 · 81st Congress · Jul 31, 1950
HR 9109. Amend the aaa of 1938, as amended; the soil conservation and domestic allotment act; public law 74, 77th cong; the agricultural act of 1949. Motion
On Jul 31, 1950, the House voted 120–179 (HR 9109). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 31–182, Republicans 118–24, Others 0–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 55 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
- 120
- No
- 179
- Did not vote
- 15
- Date
- Jul 31, 1950
By party
- Democrats31 yes · 182 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans118 yes · 24 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ voted yes
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ voted yes
- Clair Engle D-CA voted yes
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted yes
- John Francis Shelley D-CA voted yes
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted yes
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA voted yes
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted yes
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA voted yes
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted yes
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA voted yes
- William Silas Hill R-CO voted no
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT voted yes
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted yes
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS voted no
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted no
- James Stephen Golden R-KY voted no
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT voted yes
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted no
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted no
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ voted yes
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ voted yes
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted yes
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY voted yes
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY voted yes
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY voted yes
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY voted yes
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY voted yes
- Earl Thomas Wagner D-OH voted yes
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted yes
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK voted yes
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA voted no
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA voted no
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI voted yes
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX voted yes
- Ben Hugh Guill R-TX voted no
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted yes
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA voted yes
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA voted yes
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA voted no
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI voted no
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI voted yes
- Merlin Hull R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-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
- Ernest King Bramblett 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
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Robert Hale 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
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Carl Thomas Curtis 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 Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Isidore Dollinger 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
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- Earl Thomas Wagner 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
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton 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
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
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
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Henry Marsalis D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- 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
- James Curran Davis 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
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Neil Joseph Linehan D-IL
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- 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
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence 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
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-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
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Clare Magee 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
- 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
- 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
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Esten Miles D-NM
- Louis Gary Clemente 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
- 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
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young 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
- George Howard Wilson D-OK
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Hugo Sheridan Sims Jr. D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis 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
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Ben Hugh Guill R-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- 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
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Voted present
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Harry James Davenport D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- James Butler Hare D-SC
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
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
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- 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
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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