House roll call 29 · 82nd Congress · May 9, 1951
HR 3576. Amend the displaced persons act of 1948, as amended. Passage.
On May 9, 1951, the House voted 312–63 (HR 3576). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 159–43, Republicans 157–25, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 68 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
- 312
- No
- 63
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- May 9, 1951
By party
- Democrats159 yes · 43 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans157 yes · 25 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted no
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA voted no
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- John Travers Wood R-ID voted no
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- Ralph Harvey R-IN voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted no
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted no
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI voted no
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy 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
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted no
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC voted no
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH voted no
- William Emil Hess R-OH voted no
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted no
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted no
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH voted no
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH voted no
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH voted no
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH voted no
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted no
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
- John Jacob Riley D-SC voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted no
- Jere Cooper D-TN voted no
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted no
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX voted no
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX voted no
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted no
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA voted no
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA voted no
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
The bill
H.R. 3576: To amend the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, as amended
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin 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
- James William Trimble D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Samuel William Yorty 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 Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- 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
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- Chester Bartow Mcmullen D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle 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
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-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
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. 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
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Fred George Aandahl R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-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
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Ernest Greenwood D-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso 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
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-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 Harrison Bender R-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth 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
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Albert Clinton Vaughn Sr. 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
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Edward Lewis Sittler Jr. R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Harmar Denny Denny Jr. R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson 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
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell 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
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-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
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- John Travers Wood R-ID
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- John Taber R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
Voted present
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- Orland Kay Armstrong R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Did not vote
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- John Kee D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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