House roll call 104 · 83rd Congress · Jun 15, 1954
HR 9517. Appropriations for the gov't of d.c. And other activities chargeable in whole or part against the revenues of the district. On motion of o'hara (minn
On Jun 15, 1954, the House voted 186–168 (HR 9517). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 69–136, Democrats 138–54, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 123 members voted against their own party.
During the 83rd Congress (1953–1954), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 186
- No
- 168
- Did not vote
- 7
- Date
- Jun 15, 1954
By party
- Democrats138 yes · 54 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans69 yes · 136 no · 4 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
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ voted no
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted yes
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA voted yes
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA voted yes
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA voted yes
- Craig Hosmer R-CA voted yes
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA voted yes
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted yes
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted yes
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted yes
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted yes
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN voted yes
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted yes
- D. Bailey Merrill R-IN voted yes
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN voted yes
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted yes
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY voted yes
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted yes
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted yes
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted yes
- Laurence Curtis R-MA voted yes
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD voted yes
- Frank Small Jr. R-MD voted yes
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD voted yes
- Robert Hale R-ME voted yes
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME voted yes
- George Meader R-MI voted yes
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI voted yes
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted yes
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted yes
- Jeffrey Paul Hillelson R-MO voted yes
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC voted no
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted no
- George Adams Shuford D-NC voted no
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ voted yes
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- Clarence Clifton Young R-NV voted yes
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY voted yes
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted yes
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted yes
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY voted yes
- William Emil Hess R-OH voted yes
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH voted yes
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted yes
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted yes
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH voted yes
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH voted yes
And 43 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Robert Likens Condon D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Samuel William Yorty D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Courtney Warren Campbell D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- D. Bailey Merrill R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Howard Shultz Miller D-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Frank Small Jr. R-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Jeffrey Paul Hillelson R-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
- Lester Holtzman 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
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. 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
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Douglas R. Stringfellow R-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Albert William Cretella R-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Herbert Birchby Warburton R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- 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
- 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
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Kit Francis Clardy R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- Charles Gibb Oakman R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Roman Lee Hruska R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- John Jarman D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- William Elmer Neal R-WV
Voted present
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Edward John Bonin R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Did not vote
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Garrett Lee Withers D-KY
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Merlin Hull R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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