House roll call 174 · 85th Congress · Aug 8, 1958
HR 13247. National defense education act of 1958. Motion to recommit. Rejected. Nay supports President's position.
On Aug 8, 1958, the House voted 140–233 (HR 13247). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 54–163, Republicans 105–89. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 143 members voted against their own party.
During the 85th Congress (1957–1958), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 140
- No
- 233
- Did not vote
- 13
- Date
- Aug 8, 1958
By party
- Democrats54 yes · 163 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans105 yes · 89 no · 6 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted no
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted no
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA voted no
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA voted no
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA voted no
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA voted no
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA voted no
- Craig Hosmer R-CA voted no
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA voted no
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA voted no
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted no
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted no
- Edwin Hyland May Jr. R-CT voted no
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted no
- Albert William Cretella R-CT voted no
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT voted no
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted no
- Harry Garner Haskell Jr. R-DE voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted yes
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted yes
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA voted yes
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted yes
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted yes
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted yes
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted yes
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA voted yes
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted yes
- Paul Brown D-GA voted yes
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted no
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL voted no
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted no
- William Henry Avery R-KS voted no
- Myron Virgil George R-KS voted no
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY voted no
- Eugene Siler R-KY voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted no
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
- Laurence Curtis R-MA voted no
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted no
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted no
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted yes
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted no
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME voted no
- George Meader R-MI voted no
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted no
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI voted no
- Robert John Mcintosh R-MI voted no
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI voted no
- Robert Paul Griffin 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
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted no
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted no
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted yes
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted yes
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted yes
- Ralph James Scott D-NC voted yes
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted yes
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC voted yes
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted yes
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC voted yes
- George Adams Shuford D-NC voted yes
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted no
- Perkins Bass R-NH voted no
And 63 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- 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
- 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
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- F. Jay Nimtz R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon 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
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- David Short Dennison R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- 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
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- William Elmer Neal R-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- 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
- Stewart Lee Udall D-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
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-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
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Edwin Hyland May Jr. R-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert William Cretella R-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Harry Garner Haskell Jr. R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Harlan Erwin Mitchell D-GA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison 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
- 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 Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Robert John Mcintosh R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin 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
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-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
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II 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
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- Ludwig Teller D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- 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
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Charles Orlando Porter D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- John Armand Lafore Jr. R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-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
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- George Stanley Mcgovern D-SD
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. 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 Andrew Young D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Donald Edgar Tewes R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
Voted present
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Vincent John Dellay D-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
Did not vote
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Russell Watson Keeney R-IL
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Vincent John Dellay R-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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