HR 5134. Amend the submerged lands act.

On May 13, 1953, the House voted 309–91 (HR 5134). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 196–13, Democrats 120–84, Independents 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 97 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: 309
No: 91
Did not vote: 6
Date: May 13, 1953

By party

Democrats120 yes · 84 no · 5 didn’t vote
Republicans196 yes · 13 no · 1 didn’t vote
Independents0 yes · 1 no

Who broke with their party

Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL voted no
Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ voted no
Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted no
John Carl Kluczynski 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
Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted no
Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
Howard Shultz Miller D-KS voted no
Brent Spence D-KY voted no
Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA voted no
Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
James Hobson Morrison D-LA voted no
Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted no
George Shannon Long D-LA voted no
John Walter Heselton R-MA voted no
Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted no
Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted no
Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA voted no
John William Mccormack D-MA voted no
Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted no
Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD voted no
Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI voted no
George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI voted no
Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
John David Dingell D-MI voted no
John Lesinski Jr. D-MI voted no
Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN voted no
Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted no
Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted no
Richard Walker Bolling D-MO voted no
Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO voted no
Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC voted no
Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
Charles Robert Howell D-NJ voted no
Clifford Philip Case R-NJ voted no
Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted no
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ voted no
Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ voted no
Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ voted no
Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ voted no
Lester Holtzman D-NY voted no
James Joseph Delaney D-NY voted no
Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY voted no
Eugene James Keogh D-NY voted no
Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY voted no
Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY voted no
John James Rooney D-NY voted no
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted no
Arthur George Klein D-NY voted no
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. D-NY voted no
Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted no
Sidney Asher Fine D-NY voted no
Isidore Dollinger D-NY voted no
Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY voted no
Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY voted no
Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted no
Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
William Aloysius Barrett D-PA voted no
William Thomas Granahan D-PA voted no
James Aloysius Byrne D-PA voted no
Earl Chudoff D-PA voted no
William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA voted no
George Milton Rhodes D-PA voted no
Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA voted no

And 17 more.

The bill

H.R. 5134: To amend the Submerged Lands Act

How each representative voted: Yes

Frank William Boykin D-AL
George McInvale Grant D-AL
George William Andrews D-AL
Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
James William Trimble D-AR
Oren Harris D-AR
Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
William Frank Norrell 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 Francis Shelley D-CA
John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
Craig Hosmer R-CA
Chester Earl Holifield D-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
Harry Richard Sheppard 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
Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
Herbert Birchby Warburton R-DE
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
Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
James Andrew Haley 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
James Curran Davis D-GA
Carl Vinson D-GA
Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
Phillip Mitchell Landrum 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
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
Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
William Lee Springer R-IL
Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
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
Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
Wint Smith R-KS
Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
John Clarence Watts D-KY
Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
James Stephen Golden R-KY
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
Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
George Hyde Fallon D-MD
Frank Small Jr. R-MD
DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
Robert Hale R-ME
Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
George Meader R-MI
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
Kit Francis Clardy 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
Charles Gibb Oakman R-MI
George Anthony Dondero R-MI
August Herman Andresen R-MN
Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
Walter Henry Judd R-MN
Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
Jeffrey Paul Hillelson R-MO
William Clay Cole R-MO
Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
William Arthur Winstead D-MS
William Meyers Colmer D-MS
Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
George Adams Shuford D-NC
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
Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
William Beck Widnall R-NJ
Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
Antonio M. Fernández 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
Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
John Henry Ray R-NY
Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
James George Donovan D-NY
Paul Albert Fino R-NY
Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
James Ernest Wharton R-NY
Leo William O'Brien D-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
William Sterling Cole R-NY
Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
William Edward Miller R-NY
John Raymond Pillion R-NY
Daniel Alden Reed 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
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
Wayne Levere Hays 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
Carl Bert Albert D-OK
Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
John Jarman D-OK
Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
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
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
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
Louis Edward Graham R-PA
James Grove Fulton R-PA
Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
John Jacob Riley D-SC
William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
James Prioleau Richards D-SC
Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
James Percy Priest D-TN
James Patton Sutton 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
John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
Albert Thomas D-TX
Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
William Homer Thornberry D-TX
Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
Walter Edward Rogers 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
Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
William Munford Tuck D-VA
Richard Harding Poff R-VA
Burr Powell Harrison 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
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
Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
William Elmer Neal R-WV
William Henry Harrison R-WY

How each representative voted: No

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “HR 5134. Amend the submerged lands act.: House Vote, May 13, 1953,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/83-H-24/hr-5134-amend-the-submerged-lands-act (accessed 2026-10-17).