House roll call 205 · 74th Congress · Jun 16, 1936
To pass H.R. 11215, a private bill.
On Jun 16, 1936, the House voted 165–63 (HR 11215). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 136–28, Republicans 24–32, Others 5–3. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 52 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
- 165
- No
- 63
- Did not vote
- 213
- Date
- Jun 16, 1936
By party
- Democrats136 yes · 28 no · 162 didn’t vote
- Republicans24 yes · 32 no · 49 didn’t vote
- Others5 yes · 3 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Joe Starnes D-AL voted no
- Florence Prag Kahn R-CA voted yes
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA voted yes
- John Martin Costello D-CA voted no
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA voted no
- John Joseph Smith D-CT voted no
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA voted no
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA voted yes
- David Worth Clark D-ID voted no
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted yes
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted yes
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted yes
- Frank Carlson R-KS voted yes
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted yes
- Richard Manning Russell D-MA voted no
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME voted yes
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI voted yes
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN voted yes
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN voted yes
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO voted no
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO voted no
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Wall Doxey D-MS voted no
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted no
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted yes
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted no
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ voted yes
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ voted yes
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- Peter Angelo Cavicchia R-NJ voted yes
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ voted yes
- Bert Lord R-NY voted yes
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH voted no
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK voted no
- William Alexander Ekwall R-OR voted yes
- Clare Gerald Fenerty R-PA voted yes
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA voted yes
- Denis Joseph Driscoll D-PA voted no
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA voted no
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI voted yes
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC voted no
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD voted no
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN voted no
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN voted no
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX voted no
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX voted no
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX voted no
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Florence Prag Kahn R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- James Andrew Shanley 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
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- Bryant Thomas Castellow D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Hubert Utterback D-IA
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Jackson Leroy Adair D-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Harry Howland Mason D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- William Randolph Carpenter D-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- William Voris Gregory D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- John Nicholas Sandlin D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- William Joseph Granfield D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- William Nathaniel Rogers D-NH
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-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
- 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
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein 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
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Bert Lord R-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- William Alexander Ekwall R-OR
- Clare Gerald Fenerty R-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- Charles Elmer Dietrich D-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Theodore Leo Moritz D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Theodore B. Werner D-SD
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Samuel Billingsley Hill D-WA
- Gerald John Boileau O-WI
- George John Schneider O-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Richard Manning Russell D-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth 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
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Ernest Lundeen O-MN
- Theodore Christianson R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Orville Zimmerman 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
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio R-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Denis Joseph Driscoll D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
Did not vote
- John Mcduffie D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs 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
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR
- Isabella Selmes Greenway D-AZ
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- John Henry Hoeppel D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Samuel LaFort Collins R-CA
- George Burnham R-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- William Lincoln Higgins R-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- John George Stewart R-DE
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Bernhard Martin Jacobsen D-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- John Theodore Buckbee R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Donald Claude Dobbins D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- William Wright Arnold D-IL
- Martin Adlai Brennan D-IL
- Michael Lambert Igoe D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte 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
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Glover H. Cary D-KY
- Cap Robert Carden D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Numa Francois Montet 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
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. R-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-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
- Simon Moulton Hamlin D-ME
- Edward Carleton Moran Jr. D-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Henry Mahlon Kimball R-MI
- Prentiss Marsh Brown D-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- James Robert Claiborne D-MO
- Aubert Culberson Dunn 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
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- Randolph Perkins R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- William Frank Brunner D-NY
- Stephen Andrew Rudd D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-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
- John Taber R-NY
- James Patrick Duffy D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- John Baker Hollister R-OH
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- Leroy Tate Marshall R-OH
- Warren Joseph Duffey D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Mell Gilbert Underwood D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- William Louis Fiesinger D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- Charles Vilas Truax D-OH
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Percy Lee Gassaway D-OK
- Joshua Bryan Lee D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Harry Clay Ransley R-PA
- William Henry Wilson R-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Charles Murray Turpin R-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- William Emanuel Richardson D-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Isaac Hoffer Doutrich R-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- William Markle Berlin D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Joshua Twing Brooks D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Francis Bernard Condon D-RI
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- John Jackson Mcswain D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Oliver Harlan Cross D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Marion Anthony Zioncheck D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Wesley Lloyd D-WA
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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