House roll call 275 · 81st Congress · Jan 2, 1951
HR 5244. Bill for the relief of LT. Col. Charles j. Trees, army of the U.S. Adoption of conference report.
On Jan 2, 1951, the House voted 219–127 (HR 5244). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 194–17, Republicans 24–110, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 41 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
- 219
- No
- 127
- Did not vote
- 17
- Date
- Jan 2, 1951
By party
- Democrats194 yes · 17 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans24 yes · 110 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA voted yes
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA voted no
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN voted yes
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted yes
- Ralph Harvey R-IN voted yes
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted no
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted yes
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted yes
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted yes
- Clare Magee D-MO voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin 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
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ voted yes
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ voted yes
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted yes
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY voted yes
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH voted yes
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR voted yes
- Lowell Stockman R-OR voted yes
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted no
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA voted yes
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA voted yes
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI voted yes
- Merlin Hull R-WI voted yes
The bill
H.R. 5244: For the relief of Lt. Col. Charles J. Trees, Army of the United States
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
- 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
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- 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
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Henry Marsalis D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- 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
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Edward H. Kruse D-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-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
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- 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
- 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
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-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
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- 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
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- James Joseph Murphy D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. O-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- 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
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- 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
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest 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
- Joseph Franklin Wilson 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- 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
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- 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
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton 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
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- 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
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. 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
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton 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
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Voted present
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Thurman Charles Crook D-IN
- John Richard Walsh D-IN
- James Ellsworth Noland D-IN
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Raymond Willard Karst D-MO
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- John Esten Miles D-NM
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Earl Thomas Wagner D-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- William Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer D-OK
- George Howard Wilson D-OK
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Harry James Davenport D-PA
- James Butler Hare D-SC
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Ben Hugh Guill R-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
Did not vote
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle 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
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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