House roll call 164 · 66th Congress · Feb 21, 1920
To agree to the conference report, relating to H.R. 10453, (41 stat 456, 2-28-1920), a bill terminating federal control of the railroads and returning them to t
On Feb 21, 1920, the House voted 250–150 (HR 10453). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 208–23, Democrats 48–130, Others 0–3. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 71 members voted against their own party.
During the 66th Congress (1919–1920), Woodrow Wilson was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 250
- No
- 150
- Did not vote
- 41
- Date
- Feb 21, 1920
By party
- Democrats48 yes · 130 no · 24 didn’t vote
- Republicans208 yes · 23 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 3 no
Who broke with their party
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA voted no
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA voted no
- Hugh Steel Hersman D-CA voted yes
- William Kettner D-CA voted yes
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO voted yes
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT voted yes
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL voted yes
- Frank Clark D-FL voted yes
- James Whetstone Overstreet D-GA voted yes
- Frank Park D-GA voted yes
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA voted yes
- William Carter Wright D-GA voted yes
- William David Upshaw D-GA voted yes
- Edward John King R-IL voted no
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL voted no
- William Ernest Mason R-IL voted no
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY voted yes
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA voted yes
- Richard Olney D-MA voted yes
- Carville Dickinson Benson D-MD voted yes
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD voted yes
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD voted yes
- Frank Douglas Scott R-MI voted no
- William Francis James R-MI voted no
- Charles Archibald Nichols R-MI voted no
- Franklin Fowler Ellsworth R-MN voted no
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN voted no
- Marion Edwards Rhodes R-MO voted no
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS voted yes
- William Webb Venable D-MS voted yes
- John Humphrey Small D-NC voted yes
- Edward William Pou D-NC voted yes
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC voted yes
- Clyde Roark Hoey D-NC voted yes
- John Miller Baer R-ND voted no
- James Herbert Sinclair R-ND voted no
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ voted yes
- John Brown Johnston D-NY voted yes
- William Edward Cleary D-NY voted yes
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY voted yes
- Thomas Francis Smith D-NY voted yes
- Herbert Claiborne Pell Jr. D-NY voted yes
- Henry Ivory Emerson R-OH voted no
- Arthur Granville Dewalt D-PA voted yes
- Henry Joseph Steele D-PA voted yes
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA voted no
- John Mary Morin R-PA voted no
- William Joseph Burke R-PA voted no
- Ewin Lamar Davis D-TN voted yes
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN voted yes
- Finis James Garrett D-TN voted yes
- Eugene Black D-TX voted yes
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX voted yes
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX voted yes
- Lucian Walton Parrish D-TX voted yes
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX voted yes
- Milton Holmes Welling D-UT voted yes
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA voted yes
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA voted yes
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA voted yes
- James Pleasant Woods D-VA voted yes
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA voted yes
- Robert Walton Moore D-VA voted yes
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA voted yes
- Edward Voigt R-WI voted no
- John Casimir Kleczka R-WI voted no
- Florian Lampert R-WI voted no
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI voted no
- David Guy Classon R-WI voted no
- James Archibald Frear R-WI voted no
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- John Arthur Elston R-CA
- Henry Ellsworth Barbour R-CA
- Hugh Steel Hersman D-CA
- Henry Zenas Osborne R-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- William Newell Vaile R-CO
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Guy Urban Hardy R-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Caleb Rodney Layton R-DE
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL
- Frank Clark D-FL
- James Whetstone Overstreet D-GA
- Frank Park D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Carter Wright D-GA
- William David Upshaw D-GA
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Harry Edward Hull R-IA
- Burton Erwin Sweet 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
- Lester Jesse Dickinson R-IA
- William Dayton Boies R-IA
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Addison Taylor Smith 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
- Carl Richard Chindblom R-IL
- Ira Clifton Copley R-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL
- William Johnson Graham R-IL
- Clifford Cady Ireland R-IL
- Frank Leslie Smith R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William Brown Mckinley R-IL
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- Edwin Bruce Brooks R-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- Richard Yates R-IL
- Oscar Raymond Luhring R-IN
- Oscar Edward Bland R-IN
- James Whitson Dunbar R-IN
- John Samuel Benham R-IN
- Everett Sanders R-IN
- Richard Nash Elliott 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
- Louis William Fairfield R-IN
- Andrew James Hickey R-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Edward Campbell Little R-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- Homer Hoch R-KS
- James George Strong R-KS
- Hays Baxter White R-KS
- Jasper Napoleon Tincher R-KS
- Charles Franklin Ogden R-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- King Swope R-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA
- Willfred Weymouth Lufkin R-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- Alvan Tufts Fuller R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- Richard Olney D-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Joseph Walsh R-MA
- William Noble Andrews R-MD
- Carville Dickinson Benson D-MD
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- 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
- Earl Cory Michener 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
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- Walter Hughes Newton R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- Cleveland Alexander Newton R-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Edward Dixon Hays R-MO
- Isaac Vanbert Mcpherson R-MO
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- William Webb Venable D-MS
- Carl Wood Riddick R-MT
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Clyde Roark Hoey D-NC
- George Morley Young R-ND
- Charles Frank Reavis R-NE
- Albert Webb Jefferis R-NE
- Robert Emory Evans R-NE
- Melvin Orlando Mclaughlin R-NE
- William Ezekiel Andrews R-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- Sherman Everett Burroughs R-NH
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- William John Browning R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- Elijah Cubberley Hutchinson R-NJ
- Ernest Robinson Ackerman R-NJ
- John Rathbone Ramsey R-NJ
- Amos Henry Radcliffe R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- Benigno Cárdenas Hernández R-NM
- Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY
- John Maccrate R-NY
- John Brown Johnston D-NY
- Frederick William Rowe R-NY
- William Edward Cleary D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Thomas Francis Smith D-NY
- Herbert Claiborne Pell Jr. D-NY
- Isaac Siegel 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
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- William Henry Hill R-NY
- Walter Warren Magee R-NY
- Norman Judd Gould R-NY
- Alanson Bigelow Houghton R-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Archie Dovell Sanders R-NY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY
- Clarence Macgregor R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Ambrose Everett Burnside Stephens R-OH
- Charles James Thompson R-OH
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- Raymond Clinton Cole R-OH
- Israel Moore Foster R-OH
- Edwin Darlington Ricketts R-OH
- James Thomas Begg R-OH
- Charles Ellis Moore R-OH
- Roscoe Conkling Mcculloch R-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Murphy R-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- John William Harreld 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
- 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 Reber 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
- Edward Schroeder Brooks R-PA
- Evan John Jones R-PA
- Samuel Austin Kendall R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Milton William Shreve R-PA
- Henry Joseph Steele D-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Willis James Hulings R-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- Anderson Howell Walters R-PA
- Mahlon Morris Garland R-PA
- Thomas Spencer Crago R-PA
- Clark Burdick R-RI
- Walter Russell Stiness R-RI
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI
- Charles Andrew Christopherson R-SD
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Ewin Lamar Davis D-TN
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- Eugene Black D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- Lucian Walton Parrish D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- Milton Holmes Welling D-UT
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- James Pleasant Woods D-VA
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- Robert Walton Moore D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-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
- John William Summers R-WA
- John Stanley Webster R-WA
- Clifford Ellsworth Randall R-WI
- James Gideon Monahan R-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
- Adolphus Peter Nelson R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- George Meade Bowers R-WV
- Stuart Felix Reed R-WV
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
- Wells Goodykoontz R-WV
- Leonard Sidney Echols R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- John Mcduffie D-AL
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- Lilius Bratton Rainey D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- George Huddleston D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- 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
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- Charles Hiram Randall O-CA
- John Harris Smithwick D-FL
- James Walter Wise D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William Chester Lankford D-GA
- John William Rainey D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Edward John King R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- 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
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- James O'Connor D-LA
- Whitmell Pugh Martin 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
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI
- Frank Douglas Scott R-MI
- William Francis James R-MI
- Charles Archibald Nichols R-MI
- Franklin Fowler Ellsworth R-MN
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Oscar Edward Keller O-MN
- William Leighton Carss O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- William Thomas Bland D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Samuel Collier Major D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- William Leo Igoe D-MO
- Marion Edwards Rhodes R-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- Paul Burney Johnson D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- Samuel Mitchell Brinson D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Leonidas Dunlap Robinson D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- John Miller Baer R-ND
- James Herbert Sinclair R-ND
- Cornelius Augustine Mcglennon D-NJ
- Daniel Francis Minahan D-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- Charles Robley Evans D-NV
- Charles Pope Caldwell D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- James Paul Maher D-NY
- David Joseph O'Connell D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Henry Mayer Goldfogle D-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Joseph Rowan D-NY
- Jerome Francis Donovan D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Richard Francis Mckiniry D-NY
- James Vincent Ganly D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Warren Gard D-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Welty D-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- Martin Luther Davey D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Charles Anthony Mooney D-OH
- John Joseph Babka D-OH
- Henry Ivory Emerson R-OH
- Everette Burgess Howard D-OK
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Thomas Deitz Mckeown D-OK
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- Patrick Mclane D-PA
- John Joseph Casey D-PA
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- John Haden Wilson D-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Guy Edgar Campbell D-PA
- William Joseph Burke R-PA
- 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
- Philip Henry Stoll D-SC
- Harry Luther Gandy D-SD
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- Hubert Frederick Fisher D-TN
- John Calvin Box D-TX
- James Young D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Clay Stone Briggs D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Carlos Bee D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- James Henry Mays D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Edward Voigt R-WI
- John Casimir Kleczka R-WI
- Florian Lampert R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- David Guy Classon R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
Did not vote
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL
- William Bismarck Bowling D-AL
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- William Washington Larsen D-GA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- William Jason Fields D-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- John Francis Fitzgerald D-MA
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Thomas David Schall R-MN
- Jacob Le Roy Milligan D-MO
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- Francis Ford Patterson Jr. R-NJ
- Lester David Volk R-NY
- Reuben Locke Haskell R-NY
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia R-NY
- Nathan David Perlman R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Homer Peter Snyder R-NY
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- Charles Swindall R-OK
- Harry Clay Ransley R-PA
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Edward Coke Mann D-SC
- James Clifton Wilson D-TX
- Claude Benton Hudspeth D-TX
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- Rorer Abraham James D-VA
Other votes
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