House roll call 197 · 66th Congress · Apr 12, 1920
To pass H.RES. 517, providing for consideration of H.RES. 515, which proposed that certain hearings and a report of the war department be referred to the justic
On Apr 12, 1920, the House voted 153–113 (HRE 517). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 141–0, Democrats 10–112, Others 2–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 10 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
- 153
- No
- 113
- Did not vote
- 187
- Date
- Apr 12, 1920
By party
- Democrats10 yes · 112 no · 80 didn’t vote
- Republicans141 yes · 0 no · 107 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted yes
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT voted yes
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS voted yes
- Ben Johnson D-KY voted yes
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA voted yes
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ voted yes
- Charles Robley Evans D-NV voted yes
- Herbert Claiborne Pell Jr. D-NY voted yes
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted yes
- Milton Holmes Welling D-UT voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- Henry Ellsworth Barbour R-CA
- Charles Hiram Randall O-CA
- Henry Zenas Osborne R-CA
- William Newell Vaile R-CO
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Guy Urban Hardy R-CO
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Caleb Rodney Layton R-DE
- Harry Edward Hull R-IA
- Burton Erwin Sweet R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen 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
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- William Warfield Wilson R-IL
- Ira Clifton Copley R-IL
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL
- William Johnson Graham R-IL
- Edward John King R-IL
- Clifford Cady Ireland R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William Brown Mckinley R-IL
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL
- Edwin Bruce Brooks R-IL
- Richard Yates R-IL
- Oscar Raymond Luhring R-IN
- Oscar Edward Bland R-IN
- John Samuel Benham R-IN
- Everett Sanders 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
- Edward Campbell Little R-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- James George Strong R-KS
- Hays Baxter White R-KS
- Jasper Napoleon Tincher R-KS
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Charles Franklin Ogden R-KY
- King Swope R-KY
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Wallace Humphrey White Jr. R-ME
- Ira Greenlief Hersey R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes 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
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Oscar Edward Keller O-MN
- Walter Hughes Newton R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Thomas David Schall R-MN
- Cleveland Alexander Newton R-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Marion Edwards Rhodes R-MO
- Carl Wood Riddick R-MT
- John Miller Baer R-ND
- George Morley Young R-ND
- James Herbert Sinclair 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
- Ernest Robinson Ackerman R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- Benigno Cárdenas Hernández R-NM
- Charles Robley Evans D-NV
- Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY
- Herbert Claiborne Pell Jr. D-NY
- Isaac Siegel R-NY
- Edmund Platt R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- Walter Warren Magee 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
- 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
- Charles Ellis Moore R-OH
- Roscoe Conkling Mcculloch R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Murphy R-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Henry Ivory Emerson R-OH
- John William Harreld R-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Clifton Nesmith Mcarthur R-OR
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- John Marshall Rose R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Clark Burdick R-RI
- Walter Russell Stiness R-RI
- Charles Andrew Christopherson R-SD
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Milton Holmes Welling D-UT
- Porter Hinman Dale R-VT
- John Franklin Miller R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- John Stanley Webster R-WA
- James Gideon Monahan R-WI
- John Casimir Kleczka R-WI
- Florian Lampert R-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
- David Guy Classon R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- George Meade Bowers R-WV
- Stuart Felix Reed R-WV
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
- Wells Goodykoontz R-WV
- Leonard Sidney Echols R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Mcduffie D-AL
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- Lilius Bratton Rainey D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- George Huddleston 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
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Hugh Steel Hersman D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Frank Clark D-FL
- James Whetstone Overstreet D-GA
- Frank Park D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Carter Wright 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
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- William Jason Fields D-KY
- James O'Connor D-LA
- Henry Garland Dupré 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
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA
- Richard Olney D-MA
- Carville Dickinson Benson D-MD
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- William Leighton Carss O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Jacob Le Roy Milligan 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
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS
- William Webb Venable D-MS
- Paul Burney Johnson D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Clyde Roark Hoey D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Daniel Francis Minahan D-NJ
- Jerome Francis Donovan D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Warren Gard D-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Welty D-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Martin Luther Davey D-OH
- Charles Anthony Mooney D-OH
- John Joseph Babka D-OH
- Everette Burgess Howard D-OK
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- Thomas Deitz Mckeown D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- John Haden Wilson D-PA
- Guy Edgar Campbell D-PA
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC
- Philip Henry Stoll D-SC
- Edward Coke Mann D-SC
- Harry Luther Gandy D-SD
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- Ewin Lamar Davis D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Hubert Frederick Fisher D-TN
- John Calvin Box D-TX
- James Young D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Clay Stone Briggs D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Lucian Walton Parrish D-TX
- Carlos Bee D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Claude Benton Hudspeth D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- James Henry Mays D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- James Pleasant Woods D-VA
- Robert Walton Moore D-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
Did not vote
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- William Bismarck Bowling D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- John Arthur Elston R-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL
- John Harris Smithwick D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- William David Upshaw D-GA
- James Walter Wise D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- William Washington Larsen D-GA
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Niels Juul R-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- Carl Richard Chindblom R-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- Frank Leslie Smith R-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- James Whitson Dunbar R-IN
- Richard Nash Elliott R-IN
- Merrill Moores R-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Homer Hoch R-KS
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA
- Willfred Weymouth Lufkin R-MA
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- Alvan Tufts Fuller R-MA
- John Francis Fitzgerald D-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Joseph Walsh R-MA
- William Noble Andrews R-MD
- Frederick Nicholas Zihlman R-MD
- Louis Bertrand Goodall R-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI
- John M. C. Smith R-MI
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- Franklin Fowler Ellsworth R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- William Thomas Bland D-MO
- Edward Dixon Hays R-MO
- Isaac Vanbert Mcpherson R-MO
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- Samuel Mitchell Brinson D-NC
- Leonidas Dunlap Robinson D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- Francis Ford Patterson Jr. R-NJ
- William John Browning R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- Elijah Cubberley Hutchinson R-NJ
- John Rathbone Ramsey R-NJ
- Amos Henry Radcliffe R-NJ
- Cornelius Augustine Mcglennon D-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- Charles Pope Caldwell D-NY
- John Maccrate R-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- John Brown Johnston D-NY
- Frederick William Rowe R-NY
- James Paul Maher D-NY
- William Edward Cleary D-NY
- David Joseph O'Connell D-NY
- Lester David Volk R-NY
- Reuben Locke Haskell R-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Henry Mayer Goldfogle D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia R-NY
- Nathan David Perlman R-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- Thomas Francis Smith D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Joseph Rowan D-NY
- Richard Francis Mckiniry D-NY
- James Vincent Ganly D-NY
- James William Husted R-NY
- Hamilton Fish 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
- Homer Peter Snyder R-NY
- William Henry Hill R-NY
- Norman Judd Gould R-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- James Thomas Begg R-OH
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK
- Charles Swindall R-OK
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- Harry Clay Ransley 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
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- Patrick Mclane D-PA
- John Joseph Casey D-PA
- John Reber R-PA
- Arthur Granville Dewalt D-PA
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- Edward Schroeder Brooks R-PA
- Evan John Jones R-PA
- Samuel Austin Kendall R-PA
- Milton William Shreve R-PA
- Henry Joseph Steele D-PA
- Willis James Hulings R-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Anderson Howell Walters R-PA
- Mahlon Morris Garland R-PA
- Thomas Spencer Crago R-PA
- William Joseph Burke R-PA
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI
- Richard Smith Whaley 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
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- Eugene Black D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- James Clifton Wilson D-TX
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- Rorer Abraham James D-VA
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- Frank Lester Greene R-VT
- Lindley Hoag Hadley R-WA
- John William Summers R-WA
- Clifford Ellsworth Randall R-WI
- Edward Voigt R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- Adolphus Peter Nelson R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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