House roll call 11 · 83rd Congress · Mar 18, 1953
H J RES 223. Joint resolution providing that reorganization plan no. 1 of 1953 shall take effect 10 days after the date of the enactment of this joint resoluti
On Mar 18, 1953, the House voted 291–86 (HJRE 223). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 196–13, Democrats 103–80, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 93 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
- 291
- No
- 86
- Did not vote
- 6
- Date
- Mar 18, 1953
By party
- Democrats103 yes · 80 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Republicans196 yes · 13 no · 1 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
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted no
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- James William Trimble D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ voted no
- John Francis Shelley D-CA voted no
- Robert Likens Condon D-CA voted no
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted no
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- Courtney Warren Campbell D-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted no
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Howard Shultz Miller D-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted no
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA voted no
- John David Dingell D-MI voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted no
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS 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
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC voted no
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC voted no
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted no
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted no
- George Adams Shuford D-NC voted no
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted no
- Lester Holtzman D-NY voted no
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY voted no
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted no
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY voted no
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH voted no
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted no
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR voted no
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA voted no
- Earl Chudoff D-PA voted no
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA voted no
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA voted no
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC voted no
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX voted no
And 13 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- Samuel William Yorty D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert William Cretella R-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Herbert Birchby Warburton R-DE
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver 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
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-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
- D. Bailey Merrill R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Garrett Lee Withers D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- 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
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Kit Francis Clardy R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Charles Gibb Oakman R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Jeffrey Paul Hillelson R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Roman Lee Hruska R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino 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
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney 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
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger 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
- Oliver Payne Bolton 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
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Edward John Bonin R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- John Jacob Riley 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
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Douglas R. Stringfellow R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-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
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- William Elmer Neal R-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Robert Likens Condon D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Courtney Warren Campbell D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Howard Shultz Miller D-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Merlin Hull R-WI
Did not vote
Other votes
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