House roll call 99 · 69th Congress · Feb 19, 1927
To resolve the house into committee of the whole to consider S. 1640 (3/4/27), a bill authorizing the secretary of agriculture to establish a national arboretum
On Feb 19, 1927, the House voted 309–31 (S 1640). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 191–0, Democrats 117–33, Others 3–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 33 members voted against their own party.
During the 69th Congress (1925–1926), Calvin Coolidge was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 309
- No
- 31
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Feb 19, 1927
By party
- Democrats117 yes · 33 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Republicans191 yes · 0 no · 27 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL voted no
- Miles Clayton Allgood D-AL voted no
- George Huddleston D-AL voted no
- William Joshua Driver D-AR voted no
- James Byron Reed D-AR voted no
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR voted no
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA voted no
- Samuel Rutherford D-GA voted no
- William Chester Lankford D-GA voted no
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY voted no
- Ben Johnson D-KY voted no
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY voted no
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted no
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO voted no
- Ralph Fulton Lozier D-MO voted no
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO voted no
- Thomas Webber Wilson D-MS voted no
- John Henry Morehead D-NE voted no
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE voted no
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK voted no
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- Butler Black Hare D-SC voted no
- John Jackson Mcswain D-SC voted no
- William Francis Stevenson D-SC voted no
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC voted no
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC voted no
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX voted no
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX voted no
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX voted no
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX voted no
- John Marvin Jones D-TX voted no
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA voted no
- Samuel Billingsley Hill D-WA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Newton Tillman D-AR
- Heartsill Ragon D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- Florence Prag Kahn R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Henry Ellsworth Barbour R-CA
- Arthur Monroe Free R-CA
- Walter Franklin Lineberger R-CA
- Philip David Swing R-CA
- William Newell Vaile R-CO
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Guy Urban Hardy R-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Edward Hart Fenn R-CT
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- Robert Griffith Houston R-DE
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- John Harris Smithwick D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Carter Wright D-GA
- William David Upshaw D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William Washington Larsen D-GA
- William Frederick Kopp R-IA
- Fred Dickinson Letts R-IA
- Thomas John Bright Robinson R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- Cyrenus Cole R-IA
- Christian William Ramseyer R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- Lester Jesse Dickinson R-IA
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Morton Denison Hull R-IL
- Elliott Wilford Sproul R-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Magne Alfred Michaelson R-IL
- Carl Richard Chindblom R-IL
- Frank R. Reid R-IL
- John Clayton Allen R-IL
- William Edgar Hull R-IL
- Frank Hamilton Funk R-IL
- William Perry Holaday R-IL
- Charles Adkins R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL
- Edward Michael Irwin R-IL
- William Wright Arnold D-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- Henry Riggs Rathbone R-IL
- Richard Yates R-IL
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- Frank Gardner D-IN
- Harry Clifford Canfield D-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Richard Nash Elliott R-IN
- Ralph Eugene Updike R-IN
- Albert Henry Vestal R-IN
- Fred Sampson Purnell R-IN
- Albert Richardson Hall R-IN
- David Hogg R-IN
- Andrew James Hickey R-IN
- Chauncey Bundy Little D-KS
- William Henry Sproul R-KS
- Homer Hoch R-KS
- James George Strong R-KS
- Hays Baxter White R-KS
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS
- John William Moore D-KY
- Maurice Hudson Thatcher R-KY
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- Andrew Jackson Kirk R-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- James O'Connor D-LA
- James Zacharie Spearing D-LA
- Whitmell Pugh Martin D-LA
- John Nicholas Sandlin D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- Bolivar Edwards Kemp D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Frank Herbert Foss R-MA
- George Russell Stobbs R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. R-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- John Joseph Douglass D-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- Louis Adams Frothingham R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill R-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- Frederick Nicholas Zihlman R-MD
- Carroll Lynwood Beedy R-ME
- Wallace Humphrey White Jr. R-ME
- John Edward Nelson R-ME
- Ira Greenlief Hersey R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Joseph Lawrence Hooper R-MI
- John Clark Ketcham R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Grant Martin Hudson R-MI
- Bird J. Vincent R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frank Douglas Scott R-MI
- William Francis James R-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- Allen John Furlow R-MN
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Oscar Edward Keller R-MN
- Walter Hughes Newton R-MN
- Ole Juulson Kvale O-MN
- Godfrey Gummer Goodwin R-MN
- Jacob Le Roy Milligan D-MO
- Edgar Clarence Ellis R-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Samuel Collier Major D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Charles Edward Kiefner R-MO
- Ralph Emerson Bailey R-MO
- Joe Jonathan Manlove R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Bill Green Lowrey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Jefferson Busby D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- Scott Leavitt R-MT
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Charles Laban Abernethy D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Homer Le Grand Lyon D-NC
- William Cicero Hammer D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Olger Burton Burtness R-ND
- Thomas Hall R-ND
- James Herbert Sinclair R-ND
- Edgar Howard D-NE
- Robert Glenmore Simmons R-NE
- Fletcher Hale R-NH
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- Francis Ford Patterson Jr. R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Ernest Robinson Ackerman R-NJ
- Randolph Perkins R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Herbert Worthington Taylor R-NJ
- Franklin William Fort R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- Oscar Louis Auf Der Heide D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- John Morrow D-NM
- Samuel Shaw (Ulysses) Arentz R-NV
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- John Joseph Kindred D-NY
- George Washington Lindsay D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Loring Milton Black Jr. D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- David Joseph O'Connell D-NY
- Anning Smith Prall D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia O-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Frank Oliver D-NY
- Benjamin Lewis Fairchild R-NY
- Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright R-NY
- Parker Corning D-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Thaddeus C. Sweet R-NY
- Frederick Morgan Davenport R-NY
- Harold Sumner Tolley R-NY
- Walter Warren Magee R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Gale Hamilton Stalker R-NY
- Archie Dovell Sanders R-NY
- Clarence Macgregor R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- William Thomas Fitzgerald R-OH
- Charles James Thompson R-OH
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- William Wallace Chalmers R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Mell Gilbert Underwood D-OH
- John Charles Speaks R-OH
- James Thomas Begg R-OH
- Martin Luther Davey D-OH
- Charles Ellis Moore R-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Murphy R-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Charles Anthony Mooney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- Samuel James Montgomery R-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Thomas Deitz Mckeown D-OK
- Fletcher B. Swank D-OK
- John William Elmer Thomas D-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- Maurice Edgar Crumpacker R-OR
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- Harry Clay Ransley R-PA
- James Joseph Connolly R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- Laurence Hawley Watres R-PA
- Edmund Nelson Carpenter R-PA
- George Franklin Brumm R-PA
- Charles Joseph Esterly R-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Frederick William Magrady R-PA
- Edward McMath Beers R-PA
- Jacob Banks Kurtz R-PA
- Franklin Menges R-PA
- William Irvin Swoope R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Milton William Shreve R-PA
- William Radford Coyle R-PA
- Adam Martin Wyant R-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- Guy Edgar Campbell R-PA
- Richard Steere Aldrich R-RI
- Jeremiah Edward O'Connell D-RI
- Charles Andrew Christopherson R-SD
- William Williamson R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- Ewin Lamar Davis D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Edward Everett Eslick D-TN
- Gordon Weaver Browning D-TN
- Hubert Frederick Fisher D-TN
- Eugene Black D-TX
- John Calvin Box D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Clay Stone Briggs D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Guinn Williams D-TX
- Harry McLeary Wurzbach R-TX
- Claude Benton Hudspeth D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- Don Byron Colton R-UT
- Elmer O. Leatherwood R-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Joseph Thomas Deal D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Joseph Whitehead D-VA
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- Robert Walton Moore D-VA
- George Campbell Peery D-VA
- Elbert Sidney Brigham R-VT
- John Franklin Miller R-WA
- Lindley Hoag Hadley R-WA
- John William Summers R-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Edward Voigt R-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- John Charles Schafer R-WI
- Victor Luitpold Berger O-WI
- Florian Lampert R-WI
- Joseph David Beck R-WI
- George John Schneider R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Hubert Haskell Peavey R-WI
- Carl George Bachmann R-WV
- Frank Llewellyn Bowman R-WV
- John Marshall Wolverton R-WV
- James Alfred Taylor D-WV
- Charles Edwin Winter R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Miles Clayton Allgood D-AL
- George Huddleston D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- James Byron Reed D-AR
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- Samuel Rutherford D-GA
- William Chester Lankford D-GA
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Ralph Fulton Lozier D-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- Thomas Webber Wilson D-MS
- John Henry Morehead D-NE
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- John Jackson Mcswain D-SC
- William Francis Stevenson D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- Samuel Billingsley Hill D-WA
Voted present
- John Mcduffie D-AL
- Lamar Jeffers D-AL
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- Thomas Aloysius Doyle D-IL
- Stanley Henry Kunz D-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- William Richard Johnson R-IL
- Harry Emerson Rowbottom R-IN
- William Robert Wood R-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- Henry Leland Bowles R-MA
- Charles Lee Underhill R-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Millard Evelyn Tydings D-MD
- John Bartholomew Sosnowski R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- Frank Clague R-MN
- William Leighton Carss O-MN
- Knud Wefald O-MN
- Charles Lee Faust R-MO
- Cleveland Alexander Newton R-MO
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Melvin Orlando Mclaughlin R-NE
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Francis Quayle D-NY
- William Edward Cleary D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Nathan David Perlman R-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- Ogden Livingston Mills R-NY
- Royal Hurlburt Weller D-NY
- Harcourt Joseph Pratt R-NY
- Meyer Jacobstein D-NY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Charles Brand R-OH
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- Benjamin Martin Golder R-PA
- George Austin Welsh R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- Samuel Austin Kendall R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Frederick Haskell Dominick D-SC
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Ernest Willard Gibson R-VT
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
Did not vote
- William Bismarck Bowling D-AL
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Lawrence James Flaherty R-CA
- John Donnan Fredericks R-CA
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- William Dayton Boies R-IA
- John Jerome Gorman R-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- Edward John King R-IL
- Jasper Napoleon Tincher R-KS
- Harry Irving Thayer R-MA
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Harry Bartow Hawes D-MO
- Willis Gratz Sears R-NE
- Stewart Hoffman Appleby R-NJ
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Ambrose Everett Burnside Stephens R-OH
- Roy Gerald Fitzgerald R-OH
- William Mitchell Morgan R-OH
- Milton Cline Garber R-OK
- Joshua William Swartz R-PA
- Anderson Howell Walters R-PA
- Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr. R-PA
- Harris Jacob Bixler R-PA
- James McDevitt Magee R-PA
- Clark Burdick R-RI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- James French Strother R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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