House roll call 129 · 74th Congress · Aug 24, 1935
To approve the conference report on H.R. 8974.
On Aug 24, 1935, the House voted 247–73 (HR 8974). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 247–17, Republicans 14–81, Others 10–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 31 members voted against their own party.
During the 74th Congress (1935–1936), Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 247
- No
- 73
- Did not vote
- 72
- Date
- Aug 24, 1935
By party
- Democrats247 yes · 17 no · 62 didn’t vote
- Republicans14 yes · 81 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others10 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO voted no
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted no
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA voted no
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA voted yes
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA voted no
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN voted no
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS voted yes
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS voted yes
- Frank Carlson R-KS voted yes
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted yes
- William Joseph Granfield D-MA voted no
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA voted no
- Richard Manning Russell D-MA voted no
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN voted yes
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted yes
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ voted no
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM voted no
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY voted no
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio R-NY voted yes
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY voted no
- Parker Corning D-NY voted no
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR voted yes
- William Alexander Ekwall R-OR voted yes
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA voted yes
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX voted no
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA voted no
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA voted no
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes 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
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Isabella Selmes Greenway D-AZ
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Henry Hoeppel D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Bryant Thomas Castellow D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Hubert Utterback D-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz 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
- Harry Howland Mason D-IL
- William Wright Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe 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
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- William Randolph Carpenter D-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- William Voris Gregory D-KY
- Glover H. Cary D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson 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
- Jared Young Sanders Jr. D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Cleveland Dear D-LA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins 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
- Simon Moulton Hamlin D-ME
- Edward Carleton Moran Jr. D-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Prentiss Marsh Brown D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Ernest Lundeen O-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Joseph Patrick Monaghan D-MT
- Roy Elmer Ayers D-MT
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley 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
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- William Frank Brunner D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Richard Joseph Tonry D-NY
- Stephen Andrew Rudd D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary 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
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio R-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt 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
- Mell Gilbert Underwood D-OH
- William Louis Fiesinger D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Joshua Bryan Lee D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- William Alexander Ekwall R-OR
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Charles Elmer Dietrich D-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Denis Joseph Driscoll D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- William Markle Berlin D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Joshua Twing Brooks D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Theodore Leo Moritz D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- John Jackson Mcswain D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Theodore B. Werner D-SD
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Walter (Clift) Chandler 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
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Oliver Harlan Cross D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Marion Anthony Zioncheck D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Samuel Billingsley Hill D-WA
- Wesley Lloyd D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Gerald John Boileau O-WI
- George John Schneider O-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Florence Prag Kahn R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Samuel LaFort Collins R-CA
- George Burnham R-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- William Lincoln Higgins R-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- John George Stewart R-DE
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- John Theodore Buckbee R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- William Joseph Granfield D-MA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. R-MA
- Richard Manning Russell D-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Theodore Christianson R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- 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
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Angelo Cavicchia R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan 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
- Bert Lord R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- Harry Clay Ransley R-PA
- William Henry Wilson R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Charles Murray Turpin R-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Isaac Hoffer Doutrich R-PA
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
Did not vote
- John Mcduffie D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- Bernhard Martin Jacobsen D-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Martin Adlai Brennan D-IL
- Michael Lambert Igoe D-IL
- Cap Robert Carden D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Henry Mahlon Kimball R-MI
- Verner Wright Main R-MI
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- James Robert Claiborne D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Aubert Culberson Dunn D-MS
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- William Nathaniel Rogers D-NH
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Frederick James Sisson D-NY
- James Patrick Duffy D-NY
- John Baker Hollister R-OH
- Leroy Tate Marshall R-OH
- Warren Joseph Duffey D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Charles Vilas Truax D-OH
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Percy Lee Gassaway D-OK
- Clare Gerald Fenerty R-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- William Emanuel Richardson D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Francis Bernard Condon D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
Other votes
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