House roll call 113 · 84th Congress · Jun 13, 1956
HR 9540. Extend and strengthen water pollution control act. Passed.
On Jun 13, 1956, the House voted 338–31 (HR 9540). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 190–5, Republicans 148–26. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 31 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
- 338
- No
- 31
- Did not vote
- 5
- Date
- Jun 13, 1956
By party
- Democrats190 yes · 5 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Republicans148 yes · 26 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA voted no
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA voted no
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Laurence Curtis R-MA voted no
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
- Ruth Thompson R-MI voted no
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted no
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE voted no
- Jackson Burton Chase R-NE voted no
- John Henry Ray R-NY voted no
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY voted no
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY voted no
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY voted no
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY voted no
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY voted no
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY voted no
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted no
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX voted no
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- George Herman Mahon D-TX 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
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings 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
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-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
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- James Boyd Utt 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
- 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
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant 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
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham 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
- Charles Bernard Hoeven 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
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church 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 Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-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
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-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
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths 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
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-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
- 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
- Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain 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
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- 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
- 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
- Thomas James Tumulty D-NJ
- 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
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh 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
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. 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
- 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
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton 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
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon 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 Pat Jennings D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-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
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Jackson Burton Chase R-NE
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
Voted present
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Irwin Delmore Davidson D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- John Junior Bell D-TX
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
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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