House roll call 107 · 84th Congress · May 31, 1956
HR 10285. Farm credit act of 1956. Merge production credit corporations in federal intermediate banks, and provide for retirement of government capital in fed
On May 31, 1956, the House voted 247–4 (HR 10285). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 129–2, Republicans 119–3. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 5 members voted against their own party.
During the 84th Congress (1955–1956), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 247
- No
- 4
- Did not vote
- 5
- Date
- May 31, 1956
By party
- Democrats129 yes · 2 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Republicans119 yes · 3 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- George Henry Christopher D-MO voted no
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY voted no
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA voted no
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston 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
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Albert William Cretella R-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- James Cunningham Murray D-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church 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
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Donald Hayworth D-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen 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
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Jackson Burton Chase R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg 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
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark 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
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore 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
- 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
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- 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
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
Voted present
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan 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
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- 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
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden 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
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Thomas James Tumulty D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Irwin Delmore Davidson D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-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
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- John Junior Bell D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
Did not vote
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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