House roll call 31 · 83rd Congress · Jun 3, 1953
H RES 236. Resolution to declare that the house does not favor the reorganization plan no. 2 of 1953 transmitted to Congress by the pres. On march 25, 1953. O
On Jun 3, 1953, the House voted 128–261 (HRE 236). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 1–213, Democrats 138–58, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 59 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
- 128
- No
- 261
- Did not vote
- 6
- Date
- Jun 3, 1953
By party
- Democrats138 yes · 58 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Republicans1 yes · 213 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ voted no
- Clair Engle D-CA voted no
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted no
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted no
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO voted no
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- Courtney Warren Campbell D-FL voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted no
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD voted no
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN voted no
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted no
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC voted no
- Charles Robert Howell D-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
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM voted no
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM voted no
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY voted no
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH voted no
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN voted no
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN voted no
- James Patton Sutton D-TN voted no
- Jere Cooper D-TN voted no
- Clifford Davis D-TN voted no
- Albert Thomas D-TX voted no
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX voted no
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted no
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX voted no
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA voted no
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA voted no
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA voted no
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted no
- William Munford Tuck D-VA voted no
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA voted no
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI voted no
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Robert Likens Condon D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Samuel William Yorty D-CA
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Courtland Lantaff 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
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon 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
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain 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
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- 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
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. D-NY
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman 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
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray 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
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-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
- 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
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-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
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-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
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin 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
- 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
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman 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 Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Jeffrey Paul Hillelson R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- 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
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case 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
- Edward Joseph Hart 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
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-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
- 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
- Edmund Patrick Radwan 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
- 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
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell 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
- 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
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- 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 Patton Sutton D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Douglas R. Stringfellow R-UT
- William Adams Dawson 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
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- 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
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- William Elmer Neal R-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Voted present
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Howard Shultz Miller D-KS
- Garrett Lee Withers D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- George Meader R-MI
- Charles Gibb Oakman R-MI
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
Did not vote
Other votes
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