S 3706. On motion to instruct conferees to agree to Senate amend. To the house amend.

On Aug 17, 1954, the House voted 208–100 (S 3706). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 56–99, Democrats 151–1, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 57 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: 208
No: 100
Did not vote: 8
Date: Aug 17, 1954

By party

Democrats151 yes · 1 no · 4 didn’t vote
Republicans56 yes · 99 no · 4 didn’t vote
Independents1 yes · 0 no

Who broke with their party

Ernest King Bramblett R-CA voted yes
Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted yes
Albert William Cretella R-CT voted yes
Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT voted yes
Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted yes
Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted yes
Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted yes
Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted yes
Hamer Harold Budge R-ID voted yes
Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted yes
William Lee Springer R-IL voted yes
Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted yes
William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted yes
Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN voted yes
Myron Virgil George R-KS voted yes
Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted yes
Wint Smith R-KS voted yes
Victor Alfred Knox R-MI voted yes
John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
August Herman Andresen R-MN voted yes
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted yes
Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted yes
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted yes
Otto Krueger R-ND voted yes
Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted yes
Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted yes
Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ voted yes
Frank John Becker R-NY voted yes
Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY voted yes
Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY voted no
John Henry Ray R-NY voted yes
William Robert Williams R-NY voted yes
John Raymond Pillion R-NY voted yes
Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH voted yes
Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted yes
Jackson Edward Betts R-OH voted yes
Frank Townsend Bow R-OH voted yes
George Harrison Bender R-OH voted yes
Page Henry Belcher R-OK voted yes
Benjamin Franklin James R-PA voted yes
Edward John Bonin R-PA voted yes
Ivor David Fenton R-PA voted yes
James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted yes
John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted yes
Leon Harry Gavin R-PA voted yes
James Grove Fulton R-PA voted yes
Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN voted yes
Richard Harding Poff R-VA voted yes
William Creed Wampler R-VA voted yes
Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA voted yes
Russell Vernon Mack R-WA voted yes
Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI voted yes
Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI voted yes
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted yes

The bill

S. 3706: A bill to outlaw the Communist Party, to prohibit members of Communist organizations from serving in certain representative capacities, and for other purposes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
William Somers Mailliard 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
John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
John Phillips R-CA
William Silas Hill R-CO
John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
Albert Paul Morano R-CT
Herbert Birchby Warburton R-DE
Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
William Estus Mcvey 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
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
D. Bailey Merrill R-IN
Earl Wilson R-IN
Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
John Walter Heselton R-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
Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
Frank Small Jr. R-MD
DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
Robert Hale R-ME
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
George Meader R-MI
Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
Ruth Thompson R-MI
Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
Charles Gibb Oakman R-MI
George Anthony Dondero R-MI
Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
Walter Henry Judd R-MN
William Clay Cole R-MO
Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
James Ernest Wharton R-NY
Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
John Taber R-NY
William Sterling Cole R-NY
Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
William Edward Miller R-NY
Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
John Martin Vorys R-OH
J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
Karl Clarence King R-PA
Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
Louis Edward Graham R-PA
Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
William Adams Dawson R-UT
Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
William Elmer Neal R-WV

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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