House roll call 155 · 74th Congress · Mar 9, 1936
To resolve the house into the committee of the whole to consider H.R. 11563, a bill declaring an emergency in the housing condition in the district of columbia.
On Mar 9, 1936, the House voted 240–70 (HR 11563). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 211–14, Republicans 21–56, Others 9–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 35 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
- 240
- No
- 70
- Did not vote
- 130
- Date
- Mar 9, 1936
By party
- Democrats211 yes · 14 no · 101 didn’t vote
- Republicans21 yes · 56 no · 28 didn’t vote
- Others9 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA voted yes
- Samuel LaFort Collins R-CA voted yes
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA voted no
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted no
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA voted yes
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA voted yes
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted yes
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL voted yes
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted yes
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted no
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME voted yes
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI voted yes
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski D-MI voted no
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted yes
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN voted yes
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN voted yes
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Leroy Tate Marshall R-OH voted yes
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH voted yes
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted no
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH voted no
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR voted yes
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA voted yes
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA voted no
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI voted yes
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- James Willis Taylor R-TN voted yes
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN voted no
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX voted no
- Milton Horace West D-TX voted no
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX voted no
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Archibald Hill Carmichael D-AL
- George Huddleston D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR
- Isabella Selmes Greenway D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Samuel LaFort Collins R-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Bryant Thomas Castellow D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- Bernhard Martin Jacobsen D-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Hubert Utterback D-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Jackson Leroy Adair D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Donald Claude Dobbins D-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Harry Howland Mason D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- William Randolph Carpenter D-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- William Voris Gregory D-KY
- Glover H. Cary D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- William Joseph Granfield D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Simon Moulton Hamlin D-ME
- Edward Carleton Moran Jr. D-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Prentiss Marsh Brown D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Ernest Lundeen O-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon 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
- James Robert Claiborne D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- Aubert Culberson Dunn D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Joseph Patrick Monaghan D-MT
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- William Nathaniel Rogers D-NH
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Richard Joseph Tonry D-NY
- Stephen Andrew Rudd 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
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- James Patrick Duffy D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- 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
- William Louis Fiesinger D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Joshua Bryan Lee D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- William Emanuel Richardson D-PA
- Charles Elmer Dietrich D-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Denis Joseph Driscoll D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Theodore Leo Moritz D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- 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
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Theodore B. Werner D-SD
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds 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
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson 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
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Samuel Billingsley Hill D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley 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
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- George Burnham R-CA
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. R-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
- Verner Wright Main 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
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Randolph Perkins R-NJ
- Peter Angelo Cavicchia R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Bert Lord R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- John Baker Hollister R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- William Alexander Ekwall R-OR
- Harry Clay Ransley R-PA
- William Henry Wilson R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
Did not vote
- John Mcduffie D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Florence Prag Kahn R-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- John Henry Hoeppel D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- William Lincoln Higgins R-CT
- John George Stewart R-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- John Theodore Buckbee R-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- William Wright Arnold D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Martin Adlai Brennan D-IL
- Michael Lambert Igoe D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Cap Robert Carden 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
- Cleveland Dear D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Richard Manning Russell D-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Henry Mahlon Kimball R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Theodore Christianson R-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Roy Elmer Ayers D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- William Frank Brunner D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio R-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Parker Corning D-NY
- William David Thomas R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Frederick James Sisson D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Mell Gilbert Underwood D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Charles Vilas Truax D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Percy Lee Gassaway D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Clare Gerald Fenerty R-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Charles Murray Turpin R-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Isaac Hoffer Doutrich R-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- William Markle Berlin D-PA
- Joshua Twing Brooks D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Francis Bernard Condon D-RI
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Marion Anthony Zioncheck D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Wesley Lloyd D-WA
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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