House roll call 76 · 83rd Congress · Feb 17, 1954
HR 4646. Provide for the exchange of certain public and private lands. Motion to recommit.
On Feb 17, 1954, the House voted 226–161 (HR 4646). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 168–37, Republicans 67–134, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 104 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
- 226
- No
- 161
- Did not vote
- 7
- Date
- Feb 17, 1954
By party
- Democrats168 yes · 37 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans67 yes · 134 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ voted no
- Clair Engle D-CA voted no
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted yes
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted yes
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT voted yes
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted no
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted no
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted yes
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted yes
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL voted yes
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted yes
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted yes
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted yes
- William Lee Springer R-IL voted yes
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted yes
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted yes
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted yes
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN voted yes
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN voted yes
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted yes
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted yes
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN voted yes
- Myron Virgil George R-KS voted yes
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- George Shannon Long D-LA voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted yes
- William Henry Bates R-MA voted yes
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD 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
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted yes
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted yes
- Ruth Thompson R-MI voted yes
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
- William Clay Cole R-MO voted yes
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner 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
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted no
- George Adams Shuford D-NC voted no
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted yes
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ voted yes
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted yes
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted yes
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM voted no
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY voted yes
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted yes
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY voted yes
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY voted yes
- William Robert Williams R-NY voted yes
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY voted yes
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH voted yes
- John Martin Vorys R-OH voted yes
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- John Jarman D-OK voted no
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA voted yes
- Karl Clarence King R-PA voted yes
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA voted yes
- Edward John Bonin R-PA voted yes
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA voted yes
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA voted yes
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA voted yes
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA voted yes
And 24 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Robert Likens Condon D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Samuel William Yorty D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- 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
- 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
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham 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
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church 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
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Howard Shultz Miller D-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-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
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- 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
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield 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
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- 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
- James George Donovan 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
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-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
- 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
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- 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
- 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
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Craig Hosmer 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
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Herbert Birchby Warburton R-DE
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- Karl Miles Le Compte 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
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- D. Bailey Merrill R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- Charles Gibb Oakman R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Jeffrey Paul Hillelson R-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley 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
- 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
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. 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
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn 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
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- 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
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Douglas R. Stringfellow R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- 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
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow 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
Voted present
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Albert William Cretella R-CT
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Kit Francis Clardy R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
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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