House roll call 139 · 67th Congress · Dec 15, 1921
To pass H. R. 8928 (p. 516, app. 3/3/23), providing for the classification of civilian positions within the district of columbia and in the field services.
On Dec 15, 1921, the House voted 246–65 (HR 8928). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 202–24, Democrats 51–49, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 73 members voted against their own party.
During the 67th Congress (1921–1922), Warren G. Harding was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 246
- No
- 65
- Did not vote
- 124
- Date
- Dec 15, 1921
By party
- Democrats51 yes · 49 no · 38 didn’t vote
- Republicans202 yes · 24 no · 86 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- John Mcduffie D-AL voted no
- John Russell Tyson D-AL voted no
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL voted no
- William Bismarck Bowling D-AL voted no
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL voted no
- William Joshua Driver D-AR voted no
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR voted no
- John Newton Tillman D-AR voted no
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR voted no
- Henderson Madison Jacoway D-AR voted no
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR voted no
- Caleb Rodney Layton R-DE voted no
- Frank Park D-GA voted no
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA voted no
- Gordon Lee D-GA voted no
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- William Washington Larsen D-GA voted no
- William Johnson Graham R-IL voted no
- James Whitson Dunbar R-IN voted no
- John Samuel Benham R-IN voted no
- Richard Nash Elliott R-IN voted no
- William Robert Wood R-IN voted no
- Milton Kraus R-IN voted no
- Hays Baxter White R-KS voted no
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY voted no
- Ben Johnson D-KY voted no
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY voted no
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA voted no
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA voted no
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI voted no
- William Waller Rucker D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Bill Green Lowrey D-MS voted no
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS voted no
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS voted no
- Hallett Sydney Ward D-NC voted no
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC voted no
- Robert Emory Evans R-NE voted no
- William Ezekiel Andrews R-NE voted no
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH voted no
- Hamilton Fish R-NY voted no
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY voted no
- Homer Peter Snyder R-NY voted no
- Charles David Carter D-OK voted no
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK voted no
- William Scott Vare R-PA voted no
- James Joseph Connolly R-PA voted no
- John Marshall Rose R-PA voted no
- John Mary Morin R-PA voted no
- Joseph Mclaughlin R-PA voted no
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC voted no
- William Francis Stevenson D-SC voted no
- Philip Henry Stoll D-SC voted no
- Wynne F. Clouse R-TN voted no
- Ewin Lamar Davis D-TN voted no
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN voted no
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN voted no
- Finis James Garrett D-TN voted no
- John Calvin Box D-TX voted no
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX voted no
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX voted no
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX voted no
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX voted no
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX voted no
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX voted no
- John Marvin Jones D-TX voted no
- Joseph Thomas Deal D-VA voted no
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA voted no
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA voted no
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA voted no
- William Henry Stafford R-WI voted no
- Leonard Sidney Echols R-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Lamar Jeffers D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- George Huddleston D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Chester William Taylor D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Henry Ellsworth Barbour R-CA
- Arthur Monroe Free R-CA
- Henry Zenas Osborne R-CA
- William Newell Vaile R-CO
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Guy Urban Hardy R-CO
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- John Harris Smithwick D-FL
- James Whetstone Overstreet D-GA
- William David Upshaw D-GA
- William Chester Lankford D-GA
- William Frederick Kopp R-IA
- Harry Edward Hull R-IA
- Burton Erwin Sweet R-IA
- Cyrenus Cole 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
- Elliott Wilford Sproul R-IL
- John William Rainey D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- John Jerome Gorman 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
- Edward John King R-IL
- Clifford Cady Ireland R-IL
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- Richard Yates R-IL
- Oscar Raymond Luhring R-IN
- Merrill Moores R-IN
- Albert Henry Vestal R-IN
- Fred Sampson Purnell 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
- Jasper Napoleon Tincher R-KS
- Richard Ely Bird R-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- Charles Franklin Ogden R-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- Whitmell Pugh Martin D-LA
- John Nicholas Sandlin D-LA
- George Kent Favrot D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. R-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- Louis Adams Frothingham R-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Joseph Walsh R-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Albert Alexander Blakeney R-MD
- John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill R-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Frederick Nicholas Zihlman R-MD
- Wallace Humphrey White Jr. R-ME
- Ira Greenlief Hersey R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- John M. C. Smith R-MI
- John Clark Ketcham R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frank Douglas Scott R-MI
- Frank Clague R-MN
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Oscar Edward Keller R-MN
- Walter Hughes Newton R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Oscar John Larson R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- Thomas David Schall R-MN
- Frank Crenshaw Millspaugh R-MO
- Charles Lee Faust R-MO
- Edgar Clarence Ellis R-MO
- Theodore Waldemar Hukriede R-MO
- Isaac Vanbert Mcpherson R-MO
- Samuel Azariah Shelton R-MO
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- Washington Jay Mccormick R-MT
- Carl Wood Riddick R-MT
- Homer Le Grand Lyon D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- George Morley Young R-ND
- James Herbert Sinclair R-ND
- Melvin Orlando Mclaughlin R-NE
- Sherman Everett Burroughs R-NH
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Theodore Frank Appleby R-NJ
- Elijah Cubberley Hutchinson R-NJ
- Ernest Robinson Ackerman R-NJ
- Randolph Perkins R-NJ
- Amos Henry Radcliffe R-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- Archibald Ernest Olpp R-NJ
- Charles Francis Xavier O'Brien D-NJ
- Néstor Montoya R-NM
- Samuel Shaw (Ulysses) Arentz R-NV
- Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY
- John Joseph Kindred D-NY
- John Kissel R-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Ardolph Loges Kline R-NY
- Michael Joseph Hogan R-NY
- Charles Grosvenor Bond R-NY
- Lester David Volk R-NY
- Meyer London O-NY
- Nathan David Perlman R-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Ryan R-NY
- Ogden Livingston Mills R-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Walter Marion Chandler R-NY
- Isaac Siegel R-NY
- Martin Charles Ansorge R-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Benjamin Lewis Fairchild R-NY
- James William Husted R-NY
- Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck D-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- John Davenport Clarke R-NY
- Walter Warren Magee R-NY
- Alanson Bigelow Houghton 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
- Roy Gerald Fitzgerald R-OH
- John Levi Cable R-OH
- Charles James Thompson R-OH
- Raymond Clinton Cole R-OH
- William Wallace Chalmers R-OH
- Israel Moore Foster R-OH
- Edwin Darlington Ricketts R-OH
- John Charles Speaks R-OH
- James Thomas Begg R-OH
- Charles Landon Knight R-OH
- Charles Ellis Moore R-OH
- Joseph Hendrix Himes R-OH
- William Mitchell Morgan R-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Murphy R-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- Thomas Alberter Chandler R-OK
- Alice Mary Robertson R-OK
- Fletcher B. Swank D-OK
- Lorraine Michael Gensman R-OK
- Manuel Herrick R-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- Clifton Nesmith Mcarthur R-OR
- Harry Clay Ransley R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- Clarence Dennis Coughlin R-PA
- Fred Benjamin Gernerd R-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Isaac Clinton Kline R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- Edward Schroeder Brooks R-PA
- Adam Martin Wyant R-PA
- Samuel Austin Kendall R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Milton William Shreve O-PA
- William Huntington Kirkpatrick R-PA
- Harris Jacob Bixler R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- Guy Edgar Campbell D-PA
- Anderson Howell Walters R-PA
- Thomas Spencer Crago R-PA
- William Joseph Burke R-PA
- Clark Burdick R-RI
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI
- William Turner Logan D-SC
- John Jackson Mcswain D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- William Williamson R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Lon Allen Scott R-TN
- Eugene Black D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Clay Stone Briggs D-TX
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- Lucian Walton Parrish D-TX
- Harry McLeary Wurzbach R-TX
- Claude Benton Hudspeth D-TX
- Don Byron Colton R-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- James Murray Hooker D-VA
- James Pleasant Woods D-VA
- Robert Walton Moore 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
- John William Summers R-WA
- John Stanley Webster R-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- John Casimir Kleczka R-WI
- Florian Lampert R-WI
- Joseph David Beck R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Adolphus Peter Nelson R-WI
- George Meade Bowers R-WV
- Stuart Felix Reed R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- John Mcduffie D-AL
- John Russell Tyson D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- William Bismarck Bowling D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Newton Tillman D-AR
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Henderson Madison Jacoway D-AR
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR
- Caleb Rodney Layton R-DE
- Frank Park D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William Washington Larsen D-GA
- William Johnson Graham R-IL
- James Whitson Dunbar R-IN
- John Samuel Benham R-IN
- Richard Nash Elliott R-IN
- William Robert Wood R-IN
- Milton Kraus R-IN
- Hays Baxter White R-KS
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Bill Green Lowrey D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- Hallett Sydney Ward D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Robert Emory Evans R-NE
- William Ezekiel Andrews R-NE
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Homer Peter Snyder R-NY
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- James Joseph Connolly R-PA
- John Marshall Rose R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Joseph Mclaughlin R-PA
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC
- William Francis Stevenson D-SC
- Philip Henry Stoll D-SC
- Wynne F. Clouse R-TN
- Ewin Lamar Davis D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- John Calvin Box D-TX
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Joseph Thomas Deal D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- Leonard Sidney Echols R-WV
Did not vote
- Lilius Bratton Rainey D-AL
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- Mae Ella Nolan R-CA
- James Henry Maclafferty R-CA
- John Arthur Elston R-CA
- Walter Franklin Lineberger R-CA
- Philip David Swing R-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Edward Hart Fenn R-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL
- Frank Clark D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- William Carter Wright D-GA
- James Walter Wise D-GA
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- Magne Alfred Michaelson R-IL
- Stanley Henry Kunz D-IL
- Frank Hamilton Funk R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Allen Francis Moore R-IL
- Guy Loren Shaw R-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- Edwin Bruce Brooks R-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- Winnifred Sprague Mason Huck R-IL
- Oscar Edward Bland R-IN
- Everett Sanders R-IN
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert D-KY
- William Jason Fields D-KY
- James O'Connor D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA
- Willfred Weymouth Lufkin R-MA
- Robert Sarsfield Maloney R-MA
- Charles Lee Underhill R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Carroll Lynwood Beedy R-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- John Edward Nelson R-ME
- George Pierre Codd R-MI
- William Francis James R-MI
- Vincent Morrison Brennan R-MI
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Henry Franklin Lawrence R-MO
- William Oscar Atkeson R-MO
- Roscoe Conkling Patterson R-MO
- Sidney Crain Roach R-MO
- Cleveland Alexander Newton R-MO
- Harry Bartow Hawes D-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Marion Edwards Rhodes R-MO
- Edward Dixon Hays R-MO
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- Paul Burney Johnson D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- Charles Laban Abernethy D-NC
- Samuel Mitchell Brinson D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- William Cicero Hammer D-NC
- Olger Burton Burtness R-ND
- Charles Frank Reavis R-NE
- Roy Henry Thorpe R-NE
- Albert Webb Jefferis R-NE
- Augustin Reed Humphrey R-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- Francis Ford Patterson Jr. R-NJ
- Herbert Worthington Taylor R-NJ
- Warren Isbell Lee R-NY
- Andrew Nicholas Petersen R-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY
- Albert Berger Rossdale R-NY
- Charles Bonnell Ward R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Norman Judd Gould R-NY
- Lewis Henry R-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- Miner Gibbs Norton R-OH
- Harry Conrad Gahn R-OH
- Joseph Colburn Pringey R-OK
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Charles Robert Connell R-PA
- John Reber R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Evan John Jones R-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- Walter Russell Stiness R-RI
- Frederick Haskell Dominick D-SC
- Charles Andrew Christopherson R-SD
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Joseph Edgar Brown R-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Hubert Frederick Fisher D-TN
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Guinn Williams D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Elmer O. Leatherwood R-UT
- Rorer Abraham James D-VA
- John Paul R-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- Edward Voigt R-WI
- David Guy Classon R-WI
- Benjamin Louis Rosenbloom R-WV
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
- Wells Goodykoontz R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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Capitol Receipts, “To pass H. R. 8928 (p. 516, app. 3/3/23)…: House Vote, Dec 15, 1921,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/67-H-139/to-pass-h-r-8928-p-516-app-3 (accessed 2026-10-17).