House roll call 57 · 84th Congress · Jun 30, 1955
S 2090. Mutual security act of 1955. Authorize military and economic assistance to friendly nations. Passed.
On Jun 30, 1955, the House voted 273–128 (S 2090). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 165–54, Republicans 114–80. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 134 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
- 273
- No
- 128
- Did not vote
- 3
- Date
- Jun 30, 1955
By party
- Democrats165 yes · 54 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans114 yes · 80 no
Who broke with their party
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- John Phillips R-CA voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID voted no
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL voted no
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL voted no
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL voted no
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN voted no
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted no
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- Ralph Harvey R-IN voted no
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Eugene Siler R-KY voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted no
- George Shannon Long D-LA voted no
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME voted no
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME voted no
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI voted no
- Ruth Thompson R-MI voted no
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI voted no
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI voted no
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted no
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO voted no
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC voted no
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted no
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted no
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted no
- George Adams Shuford D-NC voted no
- Otto Krueger R-ND voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
And 54 more.
The bill
S. 2090: A bill to amend the Mutual Security Act of 1954, and for other purposes.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin 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
- Lawrence Brooks Hays 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Dante Bruno Fascell 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
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- James Cunningham Murray 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
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Myron Virgil George 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
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. 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
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-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
- 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
- Robert Hale 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
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- 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
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn 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
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres 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
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. 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
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- 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
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-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
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman 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
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten 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
- 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
- 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
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- John Junior Bell D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
Voted present
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
Did not vote
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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