House roll call 52 · 86th Congress · Jul 7, 1959
HR 4957. Mallory rule bill to amend federal rules of criminal procedure. Passed.
On Jul 7, 1959, the House voted 262–138 (HR 4957). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 141–128, Republicans 126–16, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 144 members voted against their own party.
During the 86th Congress (1959–1960), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 262
- No
- 138
- Did not vote
- 8
- Date
- Jul 7, 1959
By party
- Democrats141 yes · 128 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
- Republicans126 yes · 16 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ voted no
- Clement Woodnutt Miller D-CA voted no
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA voted no
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted no
- John Francis Shelley D-CA voted no
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA voted no
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted no
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA voted no
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- James Roosevelt D-CA voted no
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA voted no
- Byron Lindberg Johnson D-CO voted no
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT voted no
- Chester Bliss Bowles D-CT voted no
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT voted no
- Donald Jay Irwin D-CT voted no
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT voted no
- Frank Kowalski D-CT voted no
- Leonard George Wolf D-IA voted no
- Steven V. Carter D-IA voted no
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA voted no
- Merwin Coad D-IA voted no
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID voted no
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted no
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL voted no
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL voted no
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL voted no
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL voted no
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted no
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- John Brademas D-IN voted no
- Fred Wampler D-IN voted no
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted no
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted no
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA voted no
- James Anthony Burke D-MA voted no
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted no
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD voted no
- James Churchill Oliver D-ME voted no
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME voted no
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI voted no
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI voted no
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI voted no
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted no
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN voted no
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted no
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO voted no
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted no
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO voted no
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO voted no
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO voted no
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT voted no
- David McKee Hall D-NC voted no
- Quentin Northrup Burdick D-ND voted no
- Perkins Bass R-NH voted no
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ voted no
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ voted no
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ voted no
And 64 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- 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
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Thomas Dale Alford O-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- H. Allen Smith 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
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- 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
- Harlan Erwin Mitchell D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Edna Oakes Simpson R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Lee Hogan D-IN
- Randall S. Harmon D-IN
- Joseph Walker Barr D-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Newell Adolphus George D-KS
- Denver David Hargis D-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Welsh Burke D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas Francis Johnson D-MD
- Daniel Baugh Brewster D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- John Robert Foley D-MD
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- 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
- 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
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- Don Levingston Short R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Lawrence Brock D-NE
- Donald Francis Mcginley D-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan 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
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- John Armand Lafore Jr. R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- 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
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- David Sjodahl King D-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing 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
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Clement John Zablocki 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
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Clement Woodnutt Miller D-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Byron Lindberg Johnson D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Chester Bliss Bowles D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Donald Jay Irwin D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Frank Kowalski D-CT
- Leonard George Wolf D-IA
- Steven V. Carter D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Fred Wampler D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver D-ME
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-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
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- David McKee Hall D-NC
- Quentin Northrup Burdick D-ND
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh 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
- John Vliet Lindsay 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
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Robert Eugene Cook D-OH
- Robert Woodrow Levering D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- 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
- Herman Toll D-PA
- Stanley A. Prokop D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- George Stanley Mcgovern D-SD
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- William Henry Meyer D-VT
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Gerald Thomas Flynn D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Voted present
- George Albert Kasem D-CA
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Jessica McCullough Weis R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
Did not vote
- Daniel Ken Inouye D-HI
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Douglas Hemphill Elliott R-PA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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