House roll call 94 · 81st Congress · Aug 15, 1949
HR 2734. Amend an act entitled "an act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies."
On Aug 15, 1949, the House voted 223–92 (HR 2734). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 187–10, Republicans 38–84, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 48 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
- 223
- No
- 92
- Did not vote
- 13
- Date
- Aug 15, 1949
By party
- Democrats187 yes · 10 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans38 yes · 84 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL voted no
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA voted yes
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA voted yes
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA voted yes
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA voted yes
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA voted yes
- John Davis Lodge R-CT voted yes
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted yes
- Ralph Harvey R-IN voted yes
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted yes
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME voted yes
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted yes
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI voted yes
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted yes
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted yes
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted yes
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted yes
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted yes
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY voted yes
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH voted yes
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR voted yes
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR voted yes
- James Grove Fulton R-PA voted yes
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD voted yes
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA voted yes
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA voted yes
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA voted yes
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI voted yes
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI voted yes
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI voted yes
- Merlin Hull R-WI voted yes
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted yes
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. 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
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Cecil Fielding White D-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
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield 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
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- 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
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Thurman Charles Crook D-IN
- John Richard Walsh D-IN
- James Ellsworth Noland D-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- 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
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- George Henry Christopher 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
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh 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
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. O-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY
- Earl Thomas Wagner D-OH
- James Gould Polk 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
- Robert Crosser 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
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell 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
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Harry James Davenport D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- James Butler Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. 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
- 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
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- 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
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Edward H. Kruse D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- William P. Bolton D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Esten Miles D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- George Howard Wilson D-OK
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Hugo Sheridan Sims Jr. D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside 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
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Robert Lewis Coffey Jr. D-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Ben Hugh Guill R-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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