House roll call 96 · 73rd Congress · Apr 17, 1934
To adopt the conference report on H.R. 8402, (p.l. 169), placing the cotton industry on a sound commercial basis, to prevent unfair competition and practices in
On Apr 17, 1934, the House voted 235–105 (HR 8402). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 258–35, Republicans 8–104, Others 4–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 43 members voted against their own party.
During the 73rd Congress (1933–1934), Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 235
- No
- 105
- Did not vote
- 36
- Date
- Apr 17, 1934
By party
- Democrats258 yes · 35 no · 28 didn’t vote
- Republicans8 yes · 104 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Others4 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- George Huddleston D-AL voted no
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA voted no
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- Samuel LaFort Collins R-CA voted yes
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA voted no
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA voted no
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA voted yes
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA voted yes
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA voted no
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL voted no
- Martin Adlai Brennan D-IL voted no
- Walter Nesbit D-IL voted no
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN voted no
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN voted no
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted no
- William Randolph Carpenter D-KS voted no
- Edward Carleton Moran Jr. D-ME voted no
- Theodore Christianson R-MN voted yes
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Busby D-MS voted no
- James Herbert Sinclair R-ND voted yes
- John Henry Morehead D-NE voted no
- Edward Raymond Burke D-NE voted no
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY voted no
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY voted no
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY voted no
- Parker Corning D-NY voted no
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH voted no
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK voted no
- William Emanuel Richardson D-PA voted no
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted no
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC voted no
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN voted no
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN voted no
- George Butler Terrell D-TX voted no
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA voted no
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI voted yes
- Gerald John Boileau R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- John Mcduffie D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Lamar Jeffers D-AL
- Miles Clayton Allgood D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Archibald Hill Carmichael D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- David Delano Glover D-AR
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR
- Isabella Selmes Greenway D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Henry Hoeppel D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- John Harley Burke D-CA
- Samuel LaFort Collins R-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Francis Thomas Maloney D-CT
- Wilbur Louis Adams D-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- Homer Cling Parker D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Bryant Thomas Castellow D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Bernhard Martin Jacobsen D-IA
- Albert Clinton Willford D-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Thomas Chalkley Coffin D-ID
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Jackson Leroy Adair D-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Donald Claude Dobbins D-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- William Wright Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- George Richard Durgan D-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS
- Kathryn Ellen O'Loughlin Mccarthy D-KS
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Cap Robert Carden D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- Glover H. Cary D-KY
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- William Voris Gregory D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Numa Francois Montet D-LA
- John Nicholas Sandlin D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Cleveland Dear D-LA
- William Joseph Granfield D-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- John Joseph Douglass D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- John Gregg Utterback D-ME
- John Camillus Lehr D-MI
- Claude Ernest Cady D-MI
- Harry Webster Musselwhite D-MI
- Prentiss Marsh Brown D-MI
- Carl May Weideman D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Einar Hoidale D-MN
- Francis Henry Shoemaker O-MN
- Henry Martin Arens O-MN
- Magnus Johnson O-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- Theodore Christianson R-MN
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Frank Hood Lee D-MO
- James Edward Ruffin D-MO
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Ralph Fulton Lozier D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Lawrence Russell Ellzey D-MS
- Joseph Patrick Monaghan D-MT
- Roy Elmer Ayers D-MT
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- James Herbert Sinclair R-ND
- Edgar Howard D-NE
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE
- Terry McGovern Carpenter D-NE
- William Nathaniel Rogers D-NH
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Dennis Chavez D-NM
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- 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
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Patrick J. Carley D-NY
- Stephen Andrew Rudd D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Anning Smith Prall D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Frank Oliver D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Frederick James Sisson D-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Elmer Ebenezer Studley D-NY
- John Fitzgibbons D-NY
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- Warren Joseph Duffey D-OH
- William Louis Fiesinger D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Charles Franklin West D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Charles Vilas Truax D-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Thomas Deitz Mckeown D-OK
- Fletcher B. Swank D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- Ernest Whitworth Marland D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Charles Henry Martin D-OR
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- William Markle Berlin D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Francis Bernard Condon D-RI
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- John Jackson Mcswain D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Theodore B. Werner D-SD
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Gordon Weaver Browning D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Edward Hull Crump D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Oliver Harlan Cross D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Joseph Weldon Bailey Jr. D-TX
- Sterling Price Strong D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Marion Anthony Zioncheck D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Samuel Billingsley Hill D-WA
- Wesley Lloyd D-WA
- Charles William Francis Henney D-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Gerald John Boileau R-WI
- James Frederic Hughes D-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- George Huddleston D-AL
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Florence Prag Kahn R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Ralph Roscoe Eltse R-CA
- William Elmer Evans R-CA
- William Isham Traeger R-CA
- George Burnham R-CA
- William Lincoln Higgins R-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- Edward Wheeler Goss R-CT
- Charles Montague Bakewell R-CT
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA
- Oscar Stanton De Priest R-IL
- Patrick Henry Moynihan R-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- James Simpson Jr. R-IL
- Frank R. Reid R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Martin Adlai Brennan D-IL
- Walter Nesbit D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Harold Clement Mcgugin R-KS
- William Randolph Carpenter D-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Frank Herbert Foss R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. R-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Carroll Lynwood Beedy R-ME
- Edward Carleton Moran Jr. D-ME
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- William Francis James R-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Ernest Lundeen O-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Ray Park Chase R-MN
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Thomas Jefferson Busby D-MS
- William Lemke R-ND
- John Henry Morehead D-NE
- Edward Raymond Burke D-NE
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- Randolph Perkins R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Angelo Cavicchia R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Parker Corning D-NY
- William David Thomas R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Marian Williams Clarke R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Gale Hamilton Stalker R-NY
- James Lucius Whitley R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- John Baker Hollister R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Leroy Tate Marshall R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Harry Clay Ransley R-PA
- James Montgomery Beck R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- James Joseph Connolly R-PA
- Edward Lowber Stokes R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Charles Murray Turpin R-PA
- George Franklin Brumm R-PA
- William Emanuel Richardson D-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Isaac Hoffer Doutrich R-PA
- Thomas Cunningham Cochran R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Jacob Banks Kurtz R-PA
- Jesse Howard Swick R-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- Michael Joseph Muldowney R-PA
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- George Butler Terrell D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- George Washington Blanchard R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Hubert Haskell Peavey R-WI
- Vincent Michael Carter R-WY
Did not vote
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- Heartsill Ragon D-AR
- Lewis Williams Douglas D-AZ
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA
- John Theodore Buckbee R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- James Frank Gillespie D-IL
- James Earl Major D-IL
- Finley Hamilton D-KY
- Bolivar Edwards Kemp D-LA
- Jared Young Sanders Jr. D-LA
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Joseph Lawrence Hooper R-MI
- George Ernest Foulkes D-MI
- Michael James Hart D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Jacob Le Roy Milligan D-MO
- James Robert Claiborne D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Charles Laban Abernethy D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Oscar Louis Auf Der Heide D-NJ
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- John Davenport Clarke R-NY
- Mell Gilbert Underwood D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Alfred Marpole Waldron R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- Joshua Twing Brooks D-PA
- Clay Stone Briggs D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Ernest Willard Gibson R-VT
- Lynn Sedwick Hornor D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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