House roll call 65 · 84th Congress · Jul 20, 1955
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On Jul 20, 1955, the House voted 315–78. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 170–39, Republicans 147–41. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 80 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
- 315
- No
- 78
- Did not vote
- 3
- Date
- Jul 20, 1955
By party
- Democrats170 yes · 39 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans147 yes · 41 no
Who broke with their party
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- James Roosevelt D-CA voted no
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted no
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL voted no
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL voted no
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL voted no
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN 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
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN voted no
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN voted no
- Myron Virgil George R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- George Shannon Long D-LA voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted no
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME voted no
- George Meader R-MI voted no
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Donald Hayworth D-MI voted no
- Ruth Thompson R-MI voted no
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI voted no
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN voted no
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO voted no
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted no
- George Henry Christopher D-MO voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE voted no
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted no
- Lester Holtzman D-NY voted no
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted no
- Arthur George Klein D-NY voted no
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY voted no
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY voted no
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH voted no
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted no
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH voted no
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted no
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH voted no
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH voted no
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH voted no
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH voted no
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR voted no
- Daniel John Flood D-PA voted no
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA voted no
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA voted no
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted no
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX voted no
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA voted no
- William Pat Jennings D-VA voted no
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI voted no
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI voted no
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI voted no
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI voted no
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV voted no
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV voted no
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV voted no
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV voted no
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Phillips 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
- 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
- William Levi Dawson 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
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde 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
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner 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
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates 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
- 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
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-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
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- John Bell Williams 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
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham 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
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Jackson Burton Chase R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-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
- 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
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Irwin Delmore Davidson D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble 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
- 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
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres 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
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan 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
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley 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
- Howard Henry Baker 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
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Albert Thomas 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
- John Junior Bell D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson 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
- 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
- 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
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-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
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Donald Hayworth D-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
Did not vote
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.