Senate roll call 224 · 82nd Congress · Apr 23, 1952
S 515. Fulbright motion to add instructions to report the bill back not later than june 2, 1952, to previous motion to recommit.
On Apr 23, 1952, the Senate voted 39–36 (S 515). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 4–39, Democrats 38–3. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 7 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
- 39
- No
- 36
- Did not vote
- 3
- Date
- Apr 23, 1952
By party
- Democrats38 yes · 3 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Republicans4 yes · 39 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Joseph Allen Frear Jr. D-DE voted no
- Milton Ruben Young R-ND voted yes
- William Langer R-ND voted yes
- Guy Cordon R-OR voted yes
- Wayne Lyman Morse R-OR voted yes
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA voted no
- Harry Flood Byrd D-VA voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- James William Fulbright D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- Ernest William Mcfarland D-AZ
- Brien Mcmahon D-CT
- William Benton D-CT
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Spessard Lindsey Holland D-FL
- Richard Brevard Russell Jr. D-GA
- Paul Howard Douglas D-IL
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Allen Joseph Ellender D-LA
- Russell Billiu Long D-LA
- Herbert Romulus O'Conor D-MD
- Arthur Edson Blair Moody D-MI
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. D-MN
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- John Cornelius Stennis D-MS
- James Edward Murray D-MT
- Clyde Roark Hoey D-NC
- Willis Smith D-NC
- Milton Ruben Young R-ND
- William Langer R-ND
- Dennis Chavez D-NM
- Herbert Henry Lehman D-NY
- Robert Samuel Kerr D-OK
- Guy Cordon R-OR
- Wayne Lyman Morse R-OR
- John Orlando Pastore D-RI
- Theodore Francis Green D-RI
- Burnet Rhett Maybank D-SC
- Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston D-SC
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney D-WY
- Lester Callaway Hunt D-WY
How each senator voted: No
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- William Fife Knowland R-CA
- Eugene Donald Millikin R-CO
- John James Williams R-DE
- Joseph Allen Frear Jr. D-DE
- Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper R-IA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Herman Welker R-ID
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Homer Earl Capehart R-IN
- Andrew Frank Schoeppel R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. R-MA
- Leverett Saltonstall R-MA
- John Marshall Butler R-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Homer Samuel Ferguson R-MI
- Edward John Thye R-MN
- James Preston Kem R-MO
- Zales Nelson Ecton R-MT
- Frederick Andrew Seaton R-NE
- Hugh Alfred Butler R-NE
- Henry Styles (Styles) Bridges R-NH
- Howard Alexander Smith R-NJ
- Robert Clymer Hendrickson R-NJ
- George Wilson Malone R-NV
- Irving McNeil Ives R-NY
- John William Bricker R-OH
- Robert Alphonso Taft R-OH
- Edward Martin R-PA
- James Henderson Duff R-PA
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Arthur Vivian Watkins R-UT
- Wallace Foster Bennett R-UT
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Harry Flood Byrd D-VA
- George David Aiken R-VT
- Harry Pulliam Cain R-WA
- Alexander Wiley R-WI
- Joseph Raymond Mccarthy R-WI
Voted present
- Edwin Carl Johnson D-CO
- Walter Franklin George D-GA
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA
- William Ezra Jenner R-IN
- James Oliver Eastland D-MS
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM
- Patrick Anthony (Pat) Mccarran D-NV
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Kenneth Douglas Mckellar D-TN
- Ralph Edward Flanders R-VT
- Harley Martin Kilgore D-WV
Did not vote
Other votes
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