House roll call 98 · 73rd Congress · Apr 25, 1934
To agree to H.RES. 236, preventing discrimination in the House Of Representatives.
On Apr 25, 1934, the House voted 236–113 (HRE 236). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 139–126, Republicans 106–1, Others 5–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 127 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
- 236
- No
- 113
- Did not vote
- 69
- Date
- Apr 25, 1934
By party
- Democrats139 yes · 126 no · 56 didn’t vote
- Republicans106 yes · 1 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Others5 yes · 0 no
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
- Miles Clayton Allgood D-AL voted no
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL voted no
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL voted no
- Archibald Hill Carmichael D-AL voted no
- George Huddleston D-AL voted no
- William Joshua Driver D-AR voted no
- John Elvis Miller D-AR voted no
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR voted no
- William Ben Cravens D-AR voted no
- David Dickson Terry D-AR voted no
- David Delano Glover D-AR voted no
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR voted no
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA voted no
- Charles J. Colden D-CA voted no
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted no
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL voted no
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL voted no
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL voted no
- William Joseph Sears D-FL voted no
- Homer Cling Parker D-GA voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- Bryant Thomas Castellow D-GA voted no
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA voted no
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted no
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA voted no
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Thomas Chalkley Coffin D-ID voted no
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- Cap Robert Carden D-KY voted no
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY voted no
- Glover H. Cary D-KY voted no
- John Young Brown D-KY voted no
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted no
- William Voris Gregory D-KY voted no
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA voted no
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA voted no
- Numa Francois Montet D-LA voted no
- John Nicholas Sandlin D-LA voted no
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA voted no
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA voted no
- Cleveland Dear D-LA voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO voted no
- Clyde Williams D-MO voted no
- Frank Hood Lee D-MO voted no
- James Edward Ruffin D-MO voted no
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO voted no
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO voted no
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO voted no
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Wall Doxey 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
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Lawrence Russell Ellzey D-MS voted no
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC voted no
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted no
- Charles Laban Abernethy D-NC voted no
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC voted no
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC voted no
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC voted no
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC voted no
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted no
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC voted no
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC voted no
- Edward Raymond Burke D-NE voted no
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK voted no
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK voted no
- Thomas Deitz Mckeown D-OK voted no
- Fletcher B. Swank D-OK voted no
And 47 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Isabella Selmes Greenway D-AZ
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Florence Prag Kahn R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Ralph Roscoe Eltse R-CA
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- William Elmer Evans R-CA
- John Henry Hoeppel D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- William Isham Traeger R-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Samuel LaFort Collins R-CA
- George Burnham R-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- William Lincoln Higgins R-CT
- Francis Thomas Maloney D-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- Edward Wheeler Goss R-CT
- Charles Montague Bakewell R-CT
- Wilbur Louis Adams D-DE
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- Bernhard Martin Jacobsen D-IA
- Albert Clinton Willford D-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Oscar Stanton De Priest R-IL
- Patrick Henry Moynihan R-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- James Simpson Jr. R-IL
- John Theodore Buckbee R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Jackson Leroy Adair D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- James Frank Gillespie D-IL
- Donald Claude Dobbins D-IL
- William Wright Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- George Richard Durgan D-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee 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
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS
- Kathryn Ellen O'Loughlin Mccarthy D-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Finley Hamilton D-KY
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- William Joseph Granfield D-MA
- Frank Herbert Foss R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. R-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- John Joseph Douglass D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- Carroll Lynwood Beedy R-ME
- Edward Carleton Moran Jr. D-ME
- John Gregg Utterback D-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- John Camillus Lehr D-MI
- George Ernest Foulkes D-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Michael James Hart D-MI
- Harry Webster Musselwhite D-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- William Francis James R-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- Carl May Weideman D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Einar Hoidale D-MN
- Ernest Lundeen O-MN
- Francis Henry Shoemaker O-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Henry Martin Arens O-MN
- Magnus Johnson O-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- Ray Park Chase R-MN
- Theodore Christianson R-MN
- James Robert Claiborne D-MO
- Roy Elmer Ayers D-MT
- James Herbert Sinclair R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- John Henry Morehead D-NE
- Edgar Howard D-NE
- Terry McGovern Carpenter D-NE
- William Nathaniel Rogers D-NH
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-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
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Angelo Cavicchia R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- 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
- Stephen Andrew Rudd D-NY
- Emanuel Celler 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
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Frank Oliver D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick 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
- Frederick James Sisson D-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- James Lucius Whitley R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Elmer Ebenezer Studley D-NY
- John Baker Hollister R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Leroy Tate Marshall R-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- Warren Joseph Duffey D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- William Louis Fiesinger D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Charles Franklin West D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- Charles Vilas Truax D-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Charles Henry Martin D-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
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-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
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Jacob Banks Kurtz R-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Joshua Twing Brooks D-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- Michael Joseph Muldowney R-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Francis Bernard Condon D-RI
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Theodore B. Werner D-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Marion Anthony Zioncheck D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Wesley Lloyd D-WA
- George Washington Blanchard R-WI
- Charles William Francis Henney D-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Gerald John Boileau R-WI
- James Frederic Hughes D-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- 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
- George Huddleston 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
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox 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
- Thomas Chalkley Coffin D-ID
- 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
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Frank Hood Lee D-MO
- James Edward Ruffin D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Jefferson Busby D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Lawrence Russell Ellzey D-MS
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Charles Laban Abernethy 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
- Edward Raymond Burke D-NE
- 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
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- John Jackson Mcswain D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner 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
- George Butler Terrell D-TX
- Sterling Price Strong D-TX
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Hubert Haskell Peavey R-WI
- George William Johnson D-WV
Did not vote
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- Heartsill Ragon D-AR
- Lewis Williams Douglas D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- John Harley Burke D-CA
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Frank R. Reid R-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- James Earl Major D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Martin Adlai Brennan D-IL
- Walter Nesbit D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Bolivar Edwards Kemp D-LA
- Jared Young Sanders Jr. D-LA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Joseph Lawrence Hooper R-MI
- Claude Ernest Cady D-MI
- Prentiss Marsh Brown D-MI
- Jacob Le Roy Milligan D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Ralph Fulton Lozier D-MO
- Joseph Patrick Monaghan D-MT
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE
- Oscar Louis Auf Der Heide D-NJ
- Dennis Chavez D-NM
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Patrick J. Carley D-NY
- Anning Smith Prall D-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- John Davenport Clarke R-NY
- Marian Williams Clarke R-NY
- Gale Hamilton Stalker R-NY
- John Fitzgibbons D-NY
- Mell Gilbert Underwood D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- Ernest Whitworth Marland D-OK
- Alfred Marpole Waldron R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- Thomas Cunningham Cochran R-PA
- Jesse Howard Swick R-PA
- William Markle Berlin D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Clay Stone Briggs D-TX
- Joseph Weldon Bailey Jr. D-TX
- Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. D-VA
- Ernest Willard Gibson R-VT
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Samuel Billingsley Hill D-WA
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Lynn Sedwick Hornor D-WV
- Vincent Michael Carter R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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