House roll call 133 · 84th Congress · Jul 18, 1956
HR 11708. Agricultural trade. Amend agricultural trade development and assistance act of 1954 to increase amount authorized for disposing of surplus agricultu
On Jul 18, 1956, the House voted 389–6 (HR 11708). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 202–5, Republicans 187–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 6 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
- 389
- No
- 6
- Did not vote
- 5
- Date
- Jul 18, 1956
By party
- Democrats202 yes · 5 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Republicans187 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted no
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Albert Thomas 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
- 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
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- John James Flynt Jr. 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
- 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
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- 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
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church 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
- 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
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George 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
- James Hobson Morrison 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
- Laurence Curtis 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
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman 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
- 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
- Herman Carl Andersen R-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
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-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
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Orvin Benonie Fjare R-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
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso 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
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-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
- Paul Albert Fino 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
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch 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
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-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
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson 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
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- 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
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-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
- J. T. Rutherford 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Harley Orrin Staggers 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
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Albert Thomas D-TX
Voted present
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- John Junior Bell D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey 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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Capitol Receipts, “HR 11708. Agricultural trade. Amend…: House Vote, Jul 18, 1956,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/84-H-133/hr-11708-agricultural-trade-amend-agricultural-trade-development-and (accessed 2026-10-17).