House roll call 38 · 81st Congress · Apr 4, 1949
HR 1823. Amend. The act of feb. 19, 1941 so as to establish a women's reserve as a branch of the coast guard reserve. On marcantonio amend.
On Apr 4, 1949, the House voted 193–153 (HR 1823). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 111–126, Republicans 98–44, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 155 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
- 193
- No
- 153
- Did not vote
- 12
- Date
- Apr 4, 1949
By party
- Democrats111 yes · 126 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Republicans98 yes · 44 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Clair Engle D-CA voted yes
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted yes
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted yes
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA voted no
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted yes
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA voted yes
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted yes
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA voted yes
- John Albert Carroll D-CO voted yes
- John Henry Marsalis D-CO voted yes
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT voted yes
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT voted yes
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT voted yes
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted yes
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted yes
- Neil Joseph Linehan D-IL voted yes
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL voted yes
- Martin Gorski D-IL voted yes
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted yes
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted yes
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted yes
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted yes
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL voted yes
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted no
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted yes
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL voted no
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted yes
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted yes
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted no
- Thurman Charles Crook D-IN voted yes
- John Richard Walsh D-IN voted yes
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN voted yes
- Ralph Harvey R-IN voted no
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY voted no
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted yes
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA voted yes
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted yes
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted yes
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted yes
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA voted yes
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted yes
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted yes
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD voted yes
- Robert Hale R-ME voted no
- Frank Fellows R-ME voted no
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted yes
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI voted no
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted no
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI voted no
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted yes
- John Lesinski D-MI voted yes
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted no
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted no
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted yes
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN voted yes
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted yes
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO voted yes
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO voted yes
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO voted yes
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO voted yes
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted yes
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO voted yes
- Raymond Willard Karst D-MO voted yes
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted yes
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT voted yes
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE voted yes
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH voted no
And 75 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. 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
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Henry Marsalis 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
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- 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
- Martin Gorski 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
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Thurman Charles Crook D-IN
- John Richard Walsh D-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- 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
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-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
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- 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
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling 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
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow 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
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- 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
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh 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
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-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 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
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- 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
- 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
- Robert Lewis Coffey Jr. D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-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
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- 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
- 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
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- 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
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- 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
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- James Ellsworth Noland D-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence 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
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- George Henry Christopher 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
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Esten Miles D-NM
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Cliff Clevenger R-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
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Robert Fleming Rich 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
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- 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
- Thomas Jefferson Murray 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
- 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
- Schuyler Otis Bland 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
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
Voted present
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Edward H. Kruse D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- William P. Bolton D-MD
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- James Joseph Murphy D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Harry James Davenport D-PA
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
Did not vote
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. O-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Ben Hugh Guill R-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
Other votes
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