House roll call 28 · 65th Congress · May 24, 1917
To adopt H. RES. 45, authorizing clerks and assistant clerks for certain committees of the house.
On May 24, 1917, the House voted 98–243 (HRE 45). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 93–76, Republicans 5–163, Others 0–4. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 81 members voted against their own party.
During the 65th Congress (1917–1918), Woodrow Wilson was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 98
- No
- 243
- Did not vote
- 114
- Date
- May 24, 1917
By party
- Democrats93 yes · 76 no · 57 didn’t vote
- Republicans5 yes · 163 no · 55 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 4 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Oscar Lee Gray D-AL voted no
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL voted no
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL voted no
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL voted no
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL voted no
- Edward Keating D-CO voted no
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO voted no
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT voted no
- Albert Fawcett Polk D-DE voted no
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL voted no
- William Schley Howard D-GA voted no
- Christian William Ramseyer R-IA voted yes
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL voted no
- William August Rodenberg R-IL voted yes
- Martin David Foster D-IL voted no
- George Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN voted no
- William Elijah Cox D-IN voted no
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN voted no
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN voted no
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS voted no
- John Robert Connelly D-KS voted no
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS voted no
- Alben William Barkley D-KY voted no
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY voted no
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY voted no
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY voted no
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY voted no
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA voted no
- Richard Olney D-MA voted no
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO voted no
- William Waller Rucker D-MO voted no
- William Patterson Borland D-MO voted no
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO voted no
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO voted no
- Walter Lewis Hensley D-MO voted no
- Perl D. Decker D-MO voted no
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO voted no
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS voted no
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS voted no
- William Webb Venable D-MS voted no
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS voted no
- James William Collier D-MS voted no
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted no
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE voted no
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE voted no
- George Richard Lunn D-NY voted no
- John Stout Snook D-OH voted no
- Horatio Clifford Claypool D-OH voted no
- Arthur Warren Overmyer D-OH voted no
- Elsworth Raymond Bathrick D-OH voted no
- George White D-OH voted no
- William Gordon D-OH voted no
- Thomas Alberter Chandler R-OK voted yes
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK voted no
- Arthur Granville Dewalt D-PA voted no
- Guy Edgar Campbell D-PA voted no
- Mahlon Morris Garland R-PA voted yes
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI voted no
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC voted no
- Harry Luther Gandy D-SD voted no
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN voted yes
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN voted no
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN voted no
- Hubert Frederick Fisher D-TN voted no
- Eugene Black D-TX voted no
- Martin Dies D-TX voted no
- James Young D-TX voted no
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX voted no
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX voted no
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX voted no
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX voted no
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX voted no
- James Clifton Wilson D-TX voted no
- John Marvin Jones D-TX voted no
- James Luther Slayden D-TX voted no
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX voted no
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX voted no
- James Henry Mays D-UT voted no
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA voted no
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA voted no
And 1 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- George Huddleston 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
- William Shields Goodwin D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Benjamin Clark Hilliard D-CO
- James Walter Kehoe D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- James Whetstone Overstreet D-GA
- Frank Park D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- James Walter Wise D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John Randall Walker D-GA
- William Washington Larsen D-GA
- Christian William Ramseyer R-IA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- Guy Tresillian Helvering D-KS
- Jouett Shouse D-KS
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- William Jason Fields D-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- Jared Young Sanders D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Carl Chester Van Dyke D-MN
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- William Leo Igoe D-MO
- Joseph James Russell D-MO
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- George Ezekial Hood D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- William Bell Walton D-NM
- Charles Pope Caldwell D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Thomas Francis Smith D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- George Murray Hulbert D-NY
- Daniel Charles Oliver D-NY
- Warren Gard D-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Welty D-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Thomas Alberter Chandler R-OK
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Thomas Deitz Mckeown D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- Bruce Foster Sterling D-PA
- Henry Joseph Steele D-PA
- Mahlon Morris Garland R-PA
- Richard Smith Whaley D-SC
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC
- Frederick Haskell Dominick D-SC
- William Francis Stevenson D-SC
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- William Cannon Houston D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- Atkins Jefferson Mclemore D-TX
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Adam Brown Littlepage D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Oscar Lee Gray D-AL
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- John Arthur Elston R-CA
- Charles Hiram Randall O-CA
- Henry Zenas Osborne R-CA
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Edward Keating D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Albert Fawcett Polk D-DE
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL
- William Schley Howard D-GA
- Burton Erwin Sweet R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Horace Mann Towner R-IA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA
- George Cromwell Scott R-IA
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- Niels Juul R-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- George Edmund Foss R-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL
- William Johnson Graham R-IL
- Edward John King R-IL
- Clifford Cady Ireland R-IL
- John Allen Sterling R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William Brown Mckinley R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL
- Martin David Foster D-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- Joseph Medill Mccormick R-IL
- George Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Oscar Edward Bland R-IN
- William Elijah Cox D-IN
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN
- Everett Sanders R-IN
- Merrill Moores R-IN
- Albert Henry Vestal R-IN
- Fred Sampson Purnell R-IN
- Milton Kraus R-IN
- Louis William Fairfield R-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Edward Campbell Little R-KS
- Dudley Doolittle 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
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Caleb Powers R-KY
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- Alvan Tufts Fuller O-MA
- William Henry Carter R-MA
- Richard Olney D-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Joseph Walsh R-MA
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Frederick Nicholas Zihlman R-MD
- Louis Bertrand Goodall R-ME
- Wallace Humphrey White Jr. R-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Ira Greenlief Hersey R-ME
- Mark Reeves Bacon R-MI
- John M. C. Smith R-MI
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Gilbert Archibald Currie R-MI
- Frank Douglas Scott R-MI
- William Francis James R-MI
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Ernest Lundeen R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- William Patterson Borland D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO
- Jacob Edwin Meeker R-MO
- Walter Lewis Hensley D-MO
- Perl D. Decker D-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- William Webb Venable D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- Jeannette Rankin R-MT
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- George Morley Young R-ND
- Patrick Daniel Norton R-ND
- Charles Frank Reavis R-NE
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE
- Charles Henry Sloan R-NE
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- William John Browning R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Elijah Cubberley Hutchinson R-NJ
- John Rathbone Ramsey R-NJ
- Edward Winthrop Gray R-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- Edwin Ewing Roberts R-NV
- Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY
- Frederick William Rowe R-NY
- Oscar William Swift R-NY
- Reuben Locke Haskell R-NY
- Meyer London O-NY
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia R-NY
- George Blinn Francis R-NY
- Isaac Siegel R-NY
- Benjamin Lewis Fairchild R-NY
- Edmund Platt R-NY
- Charles Bonnell Ward R-NY
- Rollin Brewster Sanford R-NY
- George Richard Lunn D-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- Walter Warren Magee R-NY
- Norman Judd Gould R-NY
- Harry Hayt Pratt R-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Archie Dovell Sanders R-NY
- William Frederick Waldow R-NY
- Charles Mann Hamilton R-NY
- Victor Heintz R-OH
- John Stout Snook D-OH
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH
- Horatio Clifford Claypool D-OH
- Arthur Warren Overmyer D-OH
- Elsworth Raymond Bathrick D-OH
- George White D-OH
- Roscoe Conkling Mcculloch R-OH
- David Adams Hollingsworth R-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- William Gordon D-OH
- Henry Ivory Emerson R-OH
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- Clifton Nesmith Mcarthur R-OR
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- Robert Douglas Heaton R-PA
- Arthur Granville Dewalt D-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- John Marshall Rose R-PA
- Charles Hedding Rowland R-PA
- Edward Everett Robbins R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Henry Alden Clark R-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly O-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Guy Edgar Campbell D-PA
- Joseph Mclaughlin R-PA
- Thomas Spencer Crago R-PA
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI
- Walter Russell Stiness R-RI
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Charles Hall Dillon R-SD
- Harry Luther Gandy D-SD
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- Hubert Frederick Fisher D-TN
- Eugene Black D-TX
- Martin Dies D-TX
- James Young D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- James Clifton Wilson D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- James Henry Mays D-UT
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- Frank Lester Greene R-VT
- Porter Hinman Dale R-VT
- John Franklin Miller R-WA
- Lindley Hoag Hadley R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- William Leroy La Follette R-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Edward Voigt R-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- James Henry Davidson R-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- David Guy Classon R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Irvine Luther Lenroot R-WI
- Stuart Felix Reed R-WV
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
- Edward Cooper R-WV
Did not vote
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- Frank Clark D-FL
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Carter Wright D-GA
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Harry Edward Hull R-IA
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- William Warfield Wilson R-IL
- Charles Martin D-IL
- John William Rainey D-IL
- Ira Clifton Copley R-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- Daniel Webster Comstock R-IN
- Richard Nash Elliott R-IN
- William Robert Wood R-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- Whitmell Pugh Martin O-LA
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- Willfred Weymouth Lufkin R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Jesse Dashiell Price D-MD
- Carville Dickinson Benson D-MD
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI
- Samuel Willard Beakes D-MI
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- Charles Archibald Nichols R-MI
- Franklin Fowler Ellsworth R-MN
- Thomas David Schall O-MN
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- Frederick Essen R-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- Leonidas Dunlap Robinson D-NC
- James Jefferson Britt R-NC
- Henry Thomas Helgesen R-ND
- John Miller Baer R-ND
- Sherman Everett Burroughs R-NH
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- John Henry Capstick R-NJ
- William Fred Birch R-NJ
- Dow Henry Drukker R-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- Joseph Vincent Flynn D-NY
- Harry Howard Dale D-NY
- James Paul Maher D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Griffin D-NY
- William Edward Cleary D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- Walter Marion Chandler R-NY
- Jerome Francis Donovan D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Henry Bruckner D-NY
- James William Husted R-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Homer Peter Snyder R-NY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- John Alexander Key D-OH
- Martin Luther Davey D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- Peter Edward Costello R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- Thomas Weir Templeton R-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- Andrew R. Brodbeck D-PA
- Earl Hanley Beshlin D-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott R-PA
- Samuel Jones Nicholls D-SC
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Milton Holmes Welling D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- James Pleasant Woods D-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- Clarence Cleveland Dill D-WA
- Florian Lampert R-WI
- Adolphus Peter Nelson R-WI
- George Meade Bowers R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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