House roll call 95 · 71st Congress · Feb 26, 1931
To pass H.R. 16836, mar. 4, 1931, a bill to amend "an act defining butter, also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale and importation and exp
On Feb 26, 1931, the House voted 302–101 (HR 16836). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 224–34, Democrats 79–69, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 103 members voted against their own party.
During the 71st Congress (1929–1930), Herbert Hoover was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 302
- No
- 101
- Did not vote
- 49
- Date
- Feb 26, 1931
By party
- Democrats79 yes · 69 no · 28 didn’t vote
- Republicans224 yes · 34 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Mcduffie D-AL voted no
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL voted no
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL voted no
- Lamar Jeffers D-AL voted no
- LaFayette Lee Patterson D-AL voted no
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL voted no
- Miles Clayton Allgood D-AL voted no
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL voted no
- George Huddleston D-AL voted no
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL voted no
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL voted no
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL voted no
- Thomas Alva Yon D-FL voted no
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA voted no
- William Carter Wright D-GA voted no
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted no
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA voted no
- William Chester Lankford D-GA voted no
- Oscar Stanton De Priest R-IL voted no
- Morton Denison Hull R-IL voted no
- Elliott Wilford Sproul R-IL voted no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted no
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL voted no
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted no
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA voted no
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. R-MA voted no
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA voted no
- Charles Lee Underhill R-MA voted no
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA voted no
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted no
- Robert Luce R-MA voted no
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted no
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted no
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD voted no
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD voted no
- Edgar Clarence Ellis R-MO voted no
- Henry Frederick Niedringhaus R-MO voted no
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO voted no
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Busby D-MS voted no
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS voted no
- Robert Samuel Hall D-MS voted no
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC voted no
- Edward William Pou D-NC voted no
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC voted no
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted no
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ voted no
- Harold Giles Hoffman R-NJ voted no
- Ernest Robinson Ackerman R-NJ voted no
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ voted no
- Franklin William Fort R-NJ voted no
- Oscar Louis Auf Der Heide D-NJ voted no
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted no
- William Frank Brunner D-NY voted no
- George Washington Lindsay D-NY voted no
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY voted no
- Loring Milton Black Jr. D-NY voted no
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY voted no
- Patrick J. Carley D-NY voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- Anning Smith Prall D-NY voted no
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY voted no
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY voted no
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY voted no
- Ruth Sears Baker Pratt R-NY voted no
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY voted no
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted no
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY voted no
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY voted no
- Frank Oliver D-NY voted no
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY voted no
- Parker Corning D-NY voted no
- William Emil Hess R-OH voted no
- William Wallace Chalmers R-OH voted no
And 23 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- Pearl Peden Oldfield D-AR
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- Effiegene Locke Wingo D-AR
- Heartsill Ragon D-AR
- David Delano Glover D-AR
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR
- Lewis Williams Douglas D-AZ
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- 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
- William Elmer Evans R-CA
- Joe Crail R-CA
- Philip David Swing R-CA
- William Robb Eaton 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
- Edward Wheeler Goss R-CT
- Robert Griffith Houston R-DE
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Samuel Rutherford D-GA
- Carl Vinson 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
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Charles Edward Swanson R-IA
- Lester Jesse Dickinson R-IA
- Ed Hoyt Campbell R-IA
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- James Thomas Igoe D-IL
- Magne Alfred Michaelson R-IL
- Carl Richard Chindblom R-IL
- Frank R. Reid R-IL
- John Theodore Buckbee R-IL
- William Richard Johnson R-IL
- John Clayton Allen R-IL
- Burnett Mitchell Chiperfield R-IL
- William Edgar Hull R-IL
- Homer William Hall R-IL
- William Perry Holaday R-IL
- Charles Adkins R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Frank Marion Ramey R-IL
- Edward Michael Irwin R-IL
- William Wright Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- Richard Yates R-IL
- Ruth Hanna Mccormick R-IL
- James Whitson Dunbar R-IN
- Harry Clifford Canfield D-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Richard Nash Elliott 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
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- William Henry Sproul R-KS
- Homer Hoch R-KS
- James George Strong R-KS
- Charles Isaac Sparks R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS
- William Voris Gregory D-KY
- John Lloyd Dorsey Jr. D-KY
- John William Moore D-KY
- John Durrett Craddock R-KY
- Maurice Hudson Thatcher R-KY
- Judson Lincoln Newhall R-KY
- Robert E. Lee Blackburn R-KY
- Lewis Leavell Walker R-KY
- Elva Roscoe Kendall R-KY
- Katherine Gudger Langley R-KY
- Charles Finley R-KY
- Numa Francois Montet D-LA
- John Nicholas Sandlin D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- William Joseph Granfield D-MA
- Frank Herbert Foss R-MA
- George Russell Stobbs R-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Linwood Leon Clark R-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
- Donald Francis Snow R-ME
- Robert Henry Clancy R-MI
- 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
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- Bird J. Vincent R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frank Probasco Bohn R-MI
- William Francis James R-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- Victor Laurence August Christgau R-MN
- Frank Clague R-MN
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- William Ignatius Nolan R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Conrad George Selvig R-MN
- Godfrey Gummer Goodwin R-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Ralph Fulton Lozier D-MO
- Jacob Le Roy Milligan D-MO
- David William Hopkins R-MO
- Thomas Jefferson Halsey R-MO
- John William Palmer R-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Joe Jonathan Manlove R-MO
- Rowland Louis Johnston R-MO
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- Scott Leavitt R-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Charles Laban Abernethy D-NC
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Charles Andrew Jonas R-NC
- George Moore Pritchard R-NC
- Olger Burton Burtness R-ND
- Thomas Hall R-ND
- James Herbert Sinclair R-ND
- John Henry Morehead D-NE
- Willis Gratz Sears R-NE
- Edgar Howard D-NE
- Charles Henry Sloan R-NE
- Fred Gustus Johnson R-NE
- Robert Glenmore Simmons R-NE
- Fletcher Hale R-NH
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Randolph Perkins R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- Albert Gallatin Simms R-NM
- Samuel Shaw (Ulysses) Arentz R-NV
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia R-NY
- Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Harcourt Joseph Pratt R-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Frederick Morgan Davenport R-NY
- John Davenport Clarke R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Gale Hamilton Stalker R-NY
- James Lucius Whitley R-NY
- Archie Dovell Sanders R-NY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY
- Edmund Francis Cooke R-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Roy Gerald Fitzgerald R-OH
- John Levi Cable R-OH
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Charles Brand R-OH
- Grant Earl Mouser Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Mell Gilbert Underwood D-OH
- John Charles Speaks R-OH
- Joseph Edward Baird R-OH
- Francis Seiberling R-OH
- Charles Ellis Moore R-OH
- Charles Blaine Mcclintock R-OH
- William Mitchell Morgan R-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Murphy R-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- Charles O'Connor R-OK
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Thomas Deitz Mckeown D-OK
- Ulysses Stevens Stone R-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- Milton Cline Garber R-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Robert Reyburn Butler R-OR
- James Joseph Connolly R-PA
- George Austin Welsh R-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Laurence Hawley Watres R-PA
- Charles Murray Turpin R-PA
- George Franklin Brumm R-PA
- Charles Joseph Esterly R-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Frederick William Magrady R-PA
- Edward McMath Beers R-PA
- Isaac Hoffer Doutrich R-PA
- James Russell Leech R-PA
- Jacob Banks Kurtz R-PA
- Franklin Menges R-PA
- James Mitchell Chase R-PA
- Samuel Austin Kendall R-PA
- Jesse Howard Swick R-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Thomas Cunningham Cochran R-PA
- Milton William Shreve R-PA
- William Radford Coyle R-PA
- Adam Martin Wyant R-PA
- Patrick Joseph Sullivan R-PA
- Harry Allison Estep R-PA
- Guy Edgar Campbell R-PA
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Frederick Haskell Dominick D-SC
- John Jackson Mcswain D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Charles Andrew Christopherson R-SD
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- William Williamson R-SD
- 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
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Clay Stone Briggs D-TX
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- Oliver Harlan Cross D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Don Byron Colton R-UT
- Frederick Charles Loofbourow R-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Menalcus Lankford R-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Joseph Whitehead D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Jacob Aaron Garber R-VA
- Robert Walton Moore D-VA
- Joseph Crockett Shaffer R-VA
- Elbert Sidney Brigham R-VT
- Ernest Willard Gibson R-VT
- John Franklin Miller R-WA
- Lindley Hoag Hadley R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- John William Summers R-WA
- Samuel Billingsley Hill D-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Charles August Kading R-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- John Charles Schafer R-WI
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne 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
- Robert Lynn Hogg R-WV
- Hugh Ike Shott R-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
- Vincent Michael Carter R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- John Mcduffie D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Lamar Jeffers D-AL
- LaFayette Lee Patterson D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- Miles Clayton Allgood D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- George Huddleston D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Thomas Alva Yon D-FL
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Carter Wright D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA
- William Chester Lankford D-GA
- Oscar Stanton De Priest R-IL
- Morton Denison Hull R-IL
- Elliott Wilford Sproul R-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. R-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- Charles Lee Underhill R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Edgar Clarence Ellis R-MO
- Henry Frederick Niedringhaus R-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Jefferson Busby D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- Robert Samuel Hall D-MS
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Harold Giles Hoffman R-NJ
- Ernest Robinson Ackerman R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Franklin William Fort R-NJ
- Oscar Louis Auf Der Heide D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- William Frank Brunner D-NY
- George Washington Lindsay D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Loring Milton Black Jr. D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Patrick J. Carley D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Anning Smith Prall D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- Ruth Sears Baker Pratt R-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Frank Oliver D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Parker Corning D-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- William Wallace Chalmers R-OH
- Charles Anthony Mooney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- James Montgomery Beck R-PA
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- Harry Clay Ransley R-PA
- Benjamin Martin Golder R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Edmund Frederick Erk R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- Clark Burdick R-RI
- Richard Steere Aldrich R-RI
- Francis Bernard Condon D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Hubert Frederick Fisher D-TN
- John Calvin Box D-TX
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Guinn Williams D-TX
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
Did not vote
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Ruth Bryan Owen D-FL
- Leslie Jasper Steele D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- William Washington Larsen D-GA
- Thomas Aloysius Doyle D-IL
- Stanley Henry Kunz D-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- Harry Emerson Rowbottom R-IN
- William Robert Wood R-IN
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- James O'Connor D-LA
- James Zacharie Spearing D-LA
- Bolivar Edwards Kemp D-LA
- William Kirk Kaynor R-MA
- John Joseph Douglass D-MA
- Walter Hughes Newton R-MN
- Ole Juulson Kvale O-MN
- Charles Edward Kiefner R-MO
- James William Collier D-MS
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Hinton James D-NC
- William Cicero Hammer D-NC
- John Francis Quayle D-NY
- David Joseph O'Connell D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Charles James Thompson R-OH
- Franklin Frederick Korell R-OR
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- Jeremiah Edward O'Connell D-RI
- William Francis Stevenson D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Augustus Mccloskey D-TX
- Harry McLeary Wurzbach R-TX
- Claude Benton Hudspeth D-TX
- Robert Quincy Lee D-TX
- Elmer O. Leatherwood R-UT
- Florian Lampert R-WI
- James Anthony Hughes R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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