House roll call 35 · 82nd Congress · Jun 6, 1951
S 872. Furnish emergency food aid to india. On adoption of conference report.
On Jun 6, 1951, the House voted 256–82 (S 872). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 156–40, Republicans 117–60, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 100 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
- 256
- No
- 82
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- Jun 6, 1951
By party
- Democrats156 yes · 40 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans117 yes · 60 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted no
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- John Travers Wood R-ID voted no
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL voted no
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL voted no
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL voted no
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL voted no
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL voted no
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL voted no
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL voted no
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Myron Virgil George R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA voted no
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted no
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD voted no
- Frank Fellows R-ME voted no
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI voted no
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI voted no
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted no
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten 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
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC voted no
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted no
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted no
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE voted no
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE voted no
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted no
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted no
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- William Sterling Cole R-NY voted no
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH voted no
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK voted no
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA voted no
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA voted no
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA voted no
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA voted no
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA voted no
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN voted no
And 20 more.
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
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- John Robert Murdock 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
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings 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
- 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
- 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
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- 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
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- 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
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Orland Kay Armstrong R-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
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Fred George Aandahl R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- 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
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Ernest Greenwood D-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn 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 Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney 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
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-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
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- 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
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Earl Chudoff 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
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. 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
- John Phillips Saylor 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
- 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
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest 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
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton 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
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- John Travers Wood R-ID
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott 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
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett 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
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay 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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