House roll call 230 · 81st Congress · Aug 14, 1950
H RES 667. Resolution providing for the consideration of HR 8195, a bill to rescind the order of the postmaster gen. Curtailing certain postal services. Motio
On Aug 14, 1950, the House voted 249–81 (HRE 667). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 149–65, Republicans 105–21. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 86 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
- 249
- No
- 81
- Did not vote
- 15
- Date
- Aug 14, 1950
By party
- Democrats149 yes · 65 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans105 yes · 21 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. 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
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted no
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted no
- James Ellsworth Noland D-IN voted no
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY voted no
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted no
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted no
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-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 Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC voted no
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted no
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted no
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted no
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH voted no
- William Grady Stigler D-OK voted no
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR voted no
- Lowell Stockman R-OR voted no
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA voted no
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
- Hugo Sheridan Sims Jr. D-SC voted no
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC voted no
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD voted no
- James Patton Sutton D-TN voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted no
- Jere Cooper D-TN voted no
- John William Wright Patman D-TX voted no
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX voted no
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX voted no
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted no
- Albert Thomas D-TX voted no
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX voted no
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX voted no
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX voted no
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted no
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted no
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA voted no
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA voted no
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted no
And 6 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Boyd Anderson Tackett 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
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett 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
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- 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 Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin 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
- Neil Joseph Linehan D-IL
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison 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
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-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
- 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
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Raymond Willard Karst D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-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
- John Esten Miles 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
- 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
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-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
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating 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
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-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
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- William Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Ben Hugh Guill R-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- 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
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-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
How each representative voted: No
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- James Ellsworth Noland D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-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 Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Hugo Sheridan Sims Jr. D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- 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
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle 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
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-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 David Dingell D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Clare Magee D-MO
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. O-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Butler Hare D-SC
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- 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
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