House roll call 88 · 86th Congress · Feb 2, 1960
HR. 1217. Amend the tariff act of 1930 to provide for the free importation of amorphous graphite. On motion to suspend the rules and pass.
On Feb 2, 1960, the House voted 278–116 (HR 1217). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 161–99, Republicans 127–21, Others 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 120 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
- 278
- No
- 116
- Did not vote
- 14
- Date
- Feb 2, 1960
By party
- Democrats161 yes · 99 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
- Republicans127 yes · 21 no · 5 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL voted no
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted no
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL voted no
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL voted no
- James William Trimble D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- John Francis Shelley D-CA voted no
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted no
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO voted no
- Byron Lindberg Johnson D-CO voted no
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- Frank Kowalski D-CT voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted no
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted no
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA voted no
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Harlan Erwin Mitchell D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID voted no
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID voted no
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL voted no
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL voted no
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- Fred Wampler D-IN voted no
- Earl Lee Hogan D-IN voted no
- Randall S. Harmon D-IN voted no
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS voted no
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Eugene Siler R-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA voted no
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted no
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted no
- Thomas Francis Johnson D-MD voted no
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME voted no
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME voted no
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN 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
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- Ralph James Scott D-NC voted no
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted no
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC voted no
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted no
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted no
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC voted no
- Lawrence Brock D-NE voted no
- Donald Francis Mcginley D-NE voted no
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM voted no
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted no
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted no
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY voted no
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY voted no
- William Emil Hess R-OH voted no
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted no
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH voted no
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH voted no
And 40 more.
The bill
H.R. 1217: To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide for the free importation of amorphous graphite
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Clement Woodnutt Miller D-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall 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
- Chester Earl Holifield D-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
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Donald Jay Irwin D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Daniel Ken Inouye D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Leonard George Wolf D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-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 Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Edna Oakes Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton 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
- Frank Welsh Burke D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte 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
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Daniel Baugh Brewster D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- John Robert Foley D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver D-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- 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
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox 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
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-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
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Don Levingston Short R-ND
- Quentin Northrup Burdick D-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- William Thomas Cahill 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
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Seymour Halpern 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
- John Henry Ray R-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
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry 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
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Jessica McCullough Weis R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH
- Robert Eugene Cook D-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Robert Woodrow Levering 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
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green 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
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- John Armand Lafore Jr. R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Ross Bass 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
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- David Sjodahl King D-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary 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
- William Henry Meyer D-VT
- 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
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Gerald Thomas Flynn D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
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
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Thomas Dale Alford O-AR
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Byron Lindberg Johnson D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Frank Kowalski D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes 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
- Harlan Erwin Mitchell D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Fred Wampler D-IN
- Earl Lee Hogan D-IN
- Randall S. Harmon D-IN
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Francis Johnson D-MD
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- 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
- Ralph James Scott 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
- Lawrence Brock D-NE
- Donald Francis Mcginley D-NE
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Stanley A. Prokop D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty 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
- George Stanley Mcgovern D-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
Voted present
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- George Albert Kasem D-CA
- Chester Bliss Bowles D-CT
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Wint Smith R-KS
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Charles Orlando Porter D-OR
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
Did not vote
- Steven V. Carter D-IA
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- David McKee Hall D-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Douglas Hemphill Elliott R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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