House roll call 6 · 65th Congress · Apr 2, 1917
To proceed to consideration of H. RES. 3, that the rules of the house of rep. Of the 64th Congress be, and are hereby adopted as the rules of the 65th Congress,
On Apr 2, 1917, the House voted 216–206 (HRE 3). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 211–1, Republicans 0–204, Others 5–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 1 member 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
- 216
- No
- 206
- Did not vote
- 33
- Date
- Apr 2, 1917
By party
- Democrats211 yes · 1 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 204 no · 19 didn’t vote
- Others5 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA voted no
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
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- George Huddleston D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead 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
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA
- Charles Hiram Randall O-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- Benjamin Clark Hilliard D-CO
- Edward Keating D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT
- Albert Fawcett Polk D-DE
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL
- Frank Clark D-FL
- James Walter Kehoe D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- James Whetstone Overstreet D-GA
- Frank Park D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- William Schley Howard D-GA
- James Walter Wise 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
- Charles Martin D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Martin David Foster D-IL
- George Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- William Elijah Cox D-IN
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS
- Guy Tresillian Helvering D-KS
- John Robert Connelly D-KS
- Jouett Shouse D-KS
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- William Jason Fields D-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
- Jared Young Sanders D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA
- Richard Olney D-MA
- Jesse Dashiell Price D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI
- Carl Chester Van Dyke D-MN
- Thomas David Schall O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- William Patterson Borland D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- William Leo Igoe D-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
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- William Webb Venable D-MS
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- George Ezekial Hood D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Leonidas Dunlap Robinson D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- William Bell Walton D-NM
- Charles Pope Caldwell D-NY
- Joseph Vincent Flynn D-NY
- Harry Howard Dale D-NY
- James Paul Maher D-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Griffin D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Meyer London O-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- George Murray Hulbert D-NY
- Henry Bruckner D-NY
- Daniel Charles Oliver D-NY
- George Richard Lunn D-NY
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY
- Warren Gard D-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Welty D-OH
- John Stout Snook D-OH
- John Alexander Key D-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Horatio Clifford Claypool D-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- Arthur Warren Overmyer D-OH
- Elsworth Raymond Bathrick D-OH
- George White D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- William Gordon D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Thomas Deitz Mckeown D-OK
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- Arthur Granville Dewalt D-PA
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- Andrew R. Brodbeck D-PA
- Bruce Foster Sterling D-PA
- Henry Joseph Steele D-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly O-PA
- Guy Edgar Campbell D-PA
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI
- Richard Smith Whaley D-SC
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC
- Frederick Haskell Dominick D-SC
- Samuel Jones Nicholls D-SC
- William Francis Stevenson D-SC
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Harry Luther Gandy D-SD
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- William Cannon Houston D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- Finis James Garrett 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
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- James Clifton Wilson D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- Atkins Jefferson Mclemore D-TX
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- Milton Holmes Welling D-UT
- James Henry Mays D-UT
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- Clarence Cleveland Dill D-WA
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Adam Brown Littlepage D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- John Arthur Elston R-CA
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- Henry Zenas Osborne R-CA
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Harry Edward Hull R-IA
- Burton Erwin Sweet R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- Christian William Ramseyer 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
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- William Warfield Wilson R-IL
- Niels Juul R-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- George Edmund Foss R-IL
- Ira Clifton Copley 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
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- Joseph Medill Mccormick R-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- Oscar Edward Bland R-IN
- Everett Sanders R-IN
- Daniel Webster Comstock R-IN
- Merrill Moores R-IN
- Albert Henry Vestal R-IN
- Fred Sampson Purnell R-IN
- William Robert Wood R-IN
- Milton Kraus R-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Edward Campbell Little R-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Caleb Powers R-KY
- Allen Towner Treadway 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
- Alvan Tufts Fuller O-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- William Henry Carter R-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
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Gilbert Archibald Currie 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 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
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Jeannette Rankin R-MT
- George Morley Young R-ND
- Patrick Daniel Norton R-ND
- Charles Frank Reavis R-NE
- Charles Henry Sloan R-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
- Dow Henry Drukker R-NJ
- Edward Winthrop Gray R-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- Edwin Ewing Roberts R-NV
- Frederick William Rowe R-NY
- Oscar William Swift R-NY
- Reuben Locke Haskell R-NY
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia R-NY
- George Blinn Francis R-NY
- Walter Marion Chandler R-NY
- Isaac Siegel R-NY
- Benjamin Lewis Fairchild R-NY
- James William Husted R-NY
- Edmund Platt R-NY
- Charles Bonnell Ward R-NY
- Rollin Brewster Sanford R-NY
- James Southworth Parker 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
- Harry Hayt Pratt R-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Archie Dovell Sanders R-NY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY
- William Frederick Waldow R-NY
- Charles Mann Hamilton R-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Victor Heintz R-OH
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH
- Roscoe Conkling Mcculloch R-OH
- David Adams Hollingsworth R-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Henry Ivory Emerson R-OH
- Thomas Alberter Chandler R-OK
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- Clifton Nesmith Mcarthur R-OR
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- Peter Edward Costello R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- Thomas Weir Templeton R-PA
- Robert Douglas Heaton R-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- John Marshall Rose R-PA
- Edward Everett Robbins R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Henry Alden Clark R-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott R-PA
- Joseph Mclaughlin R-PA
- Mahlon Morris Garland R-PA
- Thomas Spencer Crago R-PA
- Walter Russell Stiness R-RI
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI
- Charles Hall Dillon R-SD
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- 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
- George Meade Bowers R-WV
- Stuart Felix Reed R-WV
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
- Edward Cooper R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
Did not vote
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- William Carter Wright D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- John William Rainey D-IL
- Richard Nash Elliott R-IN
- Louis William Fairfield R-IN
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- Willfred Weymouth Lufkin R-MA
- Carville Dickinson Benson D-MD
- Samuel Willard Beakes D-MI
- Frederick Essen R-MO
- Jacob Edwin Meeker R-MO
- James Jefferson Britt R-NC
- Henry Thomas Helgesen R-ND
- John Miller Baer R-ND
- Sherman Everett Burroughs R-NH
- John Henry Capstick R-NJ
- William Fred Birch R-NJ
- Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- William Edward Cleary D-NY
- Thomas Francis Smith D-NY
- Jerome Francis Donovan D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- Martin Luther Davey D-OH
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Charles Hedding Rowland R-PA
- Earl Hanley Beshlin D-PA
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- James Pleasant Woods D-VA
- Florian Lampert R-WI
- Adolphus Peter Nelson R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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