House roll call 109 · 82nd Congress · Oct 20, 1951
S 1864. Authorize payments by the administrator of veterans' affairs on the purchase of automobiles or other conveyances by certain disabled veterans who serve
On Oct 20, 1951, the House voted 223–53 (S 1864). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 117–28, Republicans 105–25, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 53 members voted against their own party.
During the 82nd Congress (1951–1952), Harry S. Truman was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 223
- No
- 53
- Did not vote
- 23
- Date
- Oct 20, 1951
By party
- Democrats117 yes · 28 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Republicans105 yes · 25 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA voted no
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA voted no
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted no
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted no
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL voted no
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted no
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted no
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME voted no
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted no
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI voted no
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted no
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE voted no
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted no
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH voted no
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM voted no
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY voted no
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY voted no
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH voted no
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR voted no
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA voted no
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA voted no
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
- Clifford Davis D-TN voted no
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX voted no
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA voted no
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA voted no
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA voted no
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA voted no
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA voted no
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA voted no
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI voted no
- John William Byrnes R-WI voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts 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
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Samuel William Yorty D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Chester Bartow Mcmullen D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- John Travers Wood R-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- John Foster Furcolo D-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
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- 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
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-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
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Ernest Greenwood D-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow 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
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- George William Andrews D-AL
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- John Clarence Watts 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
- 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
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Meader R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Orland Kay Armstrong R-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Fred George Aandahl R-ND
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- 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
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- James Joseph Murphy D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Lowell Stockman 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
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Edward Lewis Sittler Jr. R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Harmar Denny Denny Jr. R-PA
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Did not vote
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- Albert Clinton Vaughn Sr. R-PA
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Kee D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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