House roll call 114 · 64th Congress · Jan 19, 1917
To pass H. R. 18994, a bill increasing the limit of cost a certain buildings. (p. 417-2)
On Jan 19, 1917, the House voted 234–92 (HR 18994). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 139–37, Republicans 99–64, Others 5–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 101 members voted against their own party.
During the 64th Congress (1915–1916), Woodrow Wilson was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 234
- No
- 92
- Did not vote
- 96
- Date
- Jan 19, 1917
By party
- Democrats139 yes · 37 no · 56 didn’t vote
- Republicans99 yes · 64 no · 37 didn’t vote
- Others5 yes · 1 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George Huddleston D-AL voted no
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA voted no
- Edward Keating D-CO voted no
- Peter Davis Oakey R-CT voted no
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT voted no
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT voted no
- James Peter Glynn R-CT voted no
- Thomas Woodnutt Miller R-DE voted no
- Burton Erwin Sweet R-IA voted no
- James William Good R-IA voted no
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA voted no
- James Robert Mann R-IL voted no
- George Edmund Foss R-IL voted no
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL voted no
- Clyde Howard Tavenner D-IL voted no
- Martin David Foster D-IL voted no
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL voted no
- William Allen Cullop D-IN voted no
- William Elijah Cox D-IN voted no
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN voted no
- Ralph Wilbur Moss D-IN voted no
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN voted no
- Merrill Moores R-IN voted no
- William Robert Wood R-IN voted no
- George Washington Rauch D-IN voted no
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN voted no
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS voted no
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS voted no
- Jouett Shouse D-KS voted no
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY voted no
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA voted no
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA voted no
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA voted no
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA voted no
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA voted no
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA voted no
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA voted no
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA voted no
- William Henry Carter R-MA voted no
- Joseph Walsh R-MA voted no
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD voted no
- John Andrew Peters R-ME voted no
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI voted no
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI voted no
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI voted no
- George Alvin Loud R-MI voted no
- Frank Douglas Scott R-MI voted no
- William Francis James R-MI voted no
- Charles Archibald Nichols R-MI voted no
- Sydney Anderson R-MN voted no
- Franklin Fowler Ellsworth R-MN voted no
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN voted no
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS voted no
- Robert Newton Page D-NC voted no
- George Morley Young R-ND voted no
- Charles Frank Reavis R-NE voted no
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ voted no
- John Henry Capstick R-NJ voted no
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ voted no
- Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY voted no
- James Paul Maher D-NY voted no
- Frederick William Rowe R-NY voted no
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY voted no
- Daniel Joseph Griffin D-NY voted no
- Reuben Locke Haskell R-NY voted no
- Thomas Gedney Patten D-NY voted no
- Isaac Siegel R-NY voted no
- Edmund Platt R-NY voted no
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY voted no
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH voted no
- Alfred Gaither Allen D-OH voted no
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH voted no
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH voted no
- Seward Henry Williams R-OH voted no
- Roscoe Conkling Mcculloch R-OH voted no
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted no
- William Gordon D-OH voted no
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
- Clifton Nesmith Mcarthur R-OR voted no
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA voted no
And 21 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Oscar Lee Gray D-AL
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- John William Abercrombie D-AL
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Newton Tillman D-AR
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Henderson Madison Jacoway D-AR
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- John Arthur Elston O-CA
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- Charles Hiram Randall O-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- Benjamin Clark Hilliard D-CO
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT
- Stephen Milancthon Sparkman D-FL
- Frank Clark D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- Frank Park D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- William Schley Howard D-GA
- James Walter Wise D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Tinsley White Rucker D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John Randall Walker D-GA
- Dudley Mays Hughes D-GA
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Harry Edward Hull R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- Christian William Ramseyer R-IA
- Horace Mann Towner R-IA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA
- Thomas Jefferson Steele D-IA
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Robert McDowell Mccracken R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- William Warfield Wilson R-IL
- James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Frank Buchanan D-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Ira Clifton Copley O-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- Edward John King R-IL
- Claudius Ulysses Stone D-IL
- John Allen Sterling R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- William Elza Williams D-IL
- Charles Lieb D-IN
- Cyrus Cline D-IN
- Guy Tresillian Helvering D-KS
- John Robert Connelly D-KS
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- William Jason Fields D-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Caleb Powers R-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- Whitmell Pugh Martin O-LA
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- Richard Olney D-MA
- Jesse Dashiell Price D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Frank Edward Guernsey R-ME
- John M. C. Smith R-MI
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Carl Chester Van Dyke D-MN
- George Ross Smith R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- James Tilghman Lloyd D-MO
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- William Patterson Borland D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO
- Jacob Edwin Meeker R-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Walter Lewis Hensley D-MO
- Joseph James Russell D-MO
- Perl D. Decker D-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- William Webb Venable D-MS
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- Tom Stout D-MT
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- George Ezekial Hood D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- Henry Thomas Helgesen R-ND
- Patrick Daniel Norton R-ND
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE
- Charles Henry Sloan R-NE
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- Cyrus Adams Sulloway R-NH
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- William John Browning R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Archibald Chapman Hart D-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- Benigno Cárdenas Hernández R-NM
- Charles Pope Caldwell D-NY
- Joseph Vincent Flynn D-NY
- Harry Howard Dale D-NY
- Oscar William Swift R-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Meyer London O-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Henry Bruckner D-NY
- Charles Bonnell Ward R-NY
- William Barclay Charles R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- Homer Peter Snyder R-NY
- Walter Warren Magee R-NY
- Norman Judd Gould R-NY
- Henry Gold Danforth R-NY
- Nelson Edwin Matthews R-OH
- John Alexander Key D-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH
- Edwin Darlington Ricketts R-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- Arthur Warren Overmyer D-OH
- David Adams Hollingsworth R-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Henry Ivory Emerson R-OH
- James Sanford Davenport D-OK
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- William Henry David Murray D-OK
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- Robert Douglas Heaton R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- Warren Worth Bailey D-PA
- Robert Freeman Hopwood R-PA
- Solomon Taylor North R-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Mahlon Morris Garland R-PA
- Thomas Spencer Crago R-PA
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI
- Richard Smith Whaley D-SC
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC
- Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Samuel Jones Nicholls D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Charles Hall Dillon R-SD
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- William Cannon Houston D-TN
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- Kenneth Douglas Mckellar D-TN
- Eugene Black D-TX
- Martin Dies D-TX
- James Young D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- William Robert Smith D-TX
- Atkins Jefferson Mclemore D-TX
- Joseph Howell R-UT
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- Porter Hinman Dale R-VT
- William Ewart Humphrey R-WA
- Lindley Hoag Hadley R-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Michael Edmund Burke D-WI
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- Thomas Frank Konop D-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- George Meade Bowers R-WV
- Adam Brown Littlepage D-WV
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
- Edward Cooper R-WV
- Howard Sutherland R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George Huddleston D-AL
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- Edward Keating D-CO
- Peter Davis Oakey R-CT
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Thomas Woodnutt Miller R-DE
- Burton Erwin Sweet R-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- George Edmund Foss R-IL
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL
- Clyde Howard Tavenner D-IL
- Martin David Foster D-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- William Allen Cullop D-IN
- William Elijah Cox D-IN
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN
- Ralph Wilbur Moss D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- Merrill Moores R-IN
- William Robert Wood R-IN
- George Washington Rauch D-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS
- Jouett Shouse D-KS
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- William Henry Carter R-MA
- Joseph Walsh R-MA
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- George Alvin Loud R-MI
- Frank Douglas Scott R-MI
- William Francis James R-MI
- Charles Archibald Nichols R-MI
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- Franklin Fowler Ellsworth R-MN
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN
- Thomas David Schall O-MN
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- Robert Newton Page D-NC
- George Morley Young R-ND
- Charles Frank Reavis R-NE
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- John Henry Capstick R-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY
- James Paul Maher D-NY
- Frederick William Rowe R-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Griffin D-NY
- Reuben Locke Haskell R-NY
- Thomas Gedney Patten D-NY
- Isaac Siegel R-NY
- Edmund Platt R-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Alfred Gaither Allen D-OH
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- Seward Henry Williams R-OH
- Roscoe Conkling Mcculloch R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- William Gordon D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Clifton Nesmith Mcarthur R-OR
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Abraham Lincoln Keister R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- William Henry Coleman R-PA
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Harry Luther Gandy D-SD
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- John Hall Stephens D-TX
- James Henry Mays D-UT
- Carter Glass D-VA
- Frank Lester Greene R-VT
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- William Leroy La Follette R-WA
- Clarence Cleveland Dill D-WA
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Irvine Luther Lenroot R-WI
Did not vote
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- William Shields Goodwin D-AR
- William Kent I-CA
- Henry Stanley Benedict R-CA
- William Dennison Stephens O-CA
- Emmett Wilson D-FL
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- Samuel Joelah Tribble D-GA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William Brown Mckinley R-IL
- Burnett Mitchell Chiperfield R-IL
- John Alfred Adair D-IN
- Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN
- Joseph Taggart D-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- Lewis Lovering Morgan D-LA
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Asher Crosby Hinds R-ME
- Daniel John Mcgillicuddy D-ME
- Samuel Willard Beakes D-MI
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- William Leo Igoe D-MO
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- James Jefferson Britt R-NC
- Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE
- Elijah Cubberley Hutchinson R-NJ
- Dow Henry Drukker R-NJ
- Edward Winthrop Gray R-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- Edwin Ewing Roberts R-NV
- George William Loft D-NY
- Michael Francis Farley D-NY
- Michael Francis Conry D-NY
- Walter Marion Chandler O-NY
- George Murray Hulbert D-NY
- William Stiles Bennet R-NY
- Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby D-NY
- James William Husted R-NY
- Rollin Brewster Sanford R-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- Harry Hayt Pratt R-NY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY
- Daniel Angelus Driscoll D-NY
- Charles Mann Hamilton R-NY
- Warren Gard D-OH
- Joshua Edward Russell R-OH
- William Crittenden Mooney R-OH
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- Peter Edward Costello R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- John Joseph Casey D-PA
- Arthur Granville Dewalt D-PA
- Cyrus William Beales R-PA
- Charles Hedding Rowland R-PA
- Michael Liebel Jr. D-PA
- Henry Joseph Steele D-PA
- Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA
- Daniel Franklin Lafean R-PA
- John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott R-PA
- Walter Russell Stiness R-RI
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI
- David Edward Finley D-SC
- Paul Grier Mccorkle D-SC
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- George Farmer Burgess D-TX
- Robert Lee Henry D-TX
- Oscar Callaway D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- James Harvey (Cyclone) Davis D-TX
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- James Hay D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- William Gay Brown Jr. D-WV
- Hunter Holmes Moss Jr. R-WV
Other votes
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