House roll call 58 · 85th Congress · Jul 31, 1957
HR 2147. Authorize construction of federal irrigation and municipal water project at san angelo, texas. Motion to recommit (kill the bill). Rejected.
On Jul 31, 1957, the House voted 189–202 (HR 2147). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 55–161, Republicans 140–47. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 102 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
- 189
- No
- 202
- Did not vote
- 11
- Date
- Jul 31, 1957
By party
- Democrats55 yes · 161 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans140 yes · 47 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL voted yes
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted yes
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL voted yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted no
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA voted no
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA voted no
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted yes
- James Roosevelt D-CA voted yes
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted yes
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted no
- William Silas Hill R-CO voted no
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted yes
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted yes
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL voted yes
- Russell Watson Keeney R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted yes
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted yes
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN voted yes
- William Henry Avery R-KS voted no
- Myron Virgil George R-KS voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
- Laurence Curtis R-MA voted no
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME voted no
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted yes
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted yes
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted yes
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI voted yes
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted yes
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted yes
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN voted yes
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN voted yes
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted yes
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted yes
- George Adams Shuford D-NC voted yes
- Otto Krueger R-ND voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE voted no
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE voted no
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted no
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted no
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted no
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ voted yes
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ voted yes
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ voted yes
- Lester Holtzman D-NY voted yes
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY voted yes
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY voted yes
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY voted yes
- Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY voted yes
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY voted yes
- Ludwig Teller D-NY voted yes
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY voted yes
- James Christopher Healey D-NY voted yes
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY voted yes
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY voted yes
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted yes
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted no
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH voted yes
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH voted no
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH voted yes
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR voted no
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA voted yes
- Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan D-PA voted yes
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA voted yes
- Earl Chudoff D-PA voted yes
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA voted yes
And 22 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-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
- 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
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Harry Garner Haskell Jr. R-DE
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-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
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- F. Jay Nimtz R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman 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
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-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
- Vincent John Dellay R-NJ
- 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
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John Henry Ray R-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
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley 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
- 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
- Edmund Patrick Radwan 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
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- David Short Dennison R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Donald Edgar Tewes R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- William Elmer Neal R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- 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
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund 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
- 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
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- 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
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Russell Watson Keeney R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- 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
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon 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
- LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Charles Orlando Porter D-OR
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-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
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- George Stanley Mcgovern D-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Joseph Carlton Loser 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
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-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 Andrew Young 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
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary 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
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- 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
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Did not vote
Other votes
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