House roll call 91 · 74th Congress · Jul 24, 1935
To recommit H.R. 8870 (p.a. 401), the federal alcohol administration act, to the committee on ways and means with instructions to amend it by providing that no
On Jul 24, 1935, the House voted 124–211 (HR 8870). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 41–228, Republicans 92–1, Others 9–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 42 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
- 124
- No
- 211
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- Jul 24, 1935
By party
- Democrats41 yes · 228 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Republicans92 yes · 1 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Others9 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- John Henry Hoeppel D-CA voted yes
- Charles Kramer D-CA voted yes
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA voted yes
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted yes
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA voted yes
- Hubert Utterback D-IA voted yes
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA voted yes
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL voted yes
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted yes
- James Mcandrews D-IL voted yes
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL voted yes
- Jackson Leroy Adair D-IL voted yes
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL voted yes
- Donald Claude Dobbins D-IL voted yes
- Harry Howland Mason D-IL voted yes
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL voted yes
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL voted yes
- Martin Adlai Brennan D-IL voted yes
- Edward White Patterson D-KS voted yes
- William Randolph Carpenter D-KS voted yes
- John Mills Houston D-KS voted yes
- Roy Elmer Ayers D-MT voted yes
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE voted yes
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE voted yes
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted yes
- Parker Corning D-NY voted yes
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted yes
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH voted yes
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted yes
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH voted yes
- John Conover Nichols D-OK voted yes
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK voted yes
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK voted yes
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK voted yes
- Will Rogers D-OK voted yes
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD voted yes
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI voted yes
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI voted yes
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI voted yes
- George William Johnson D-WV voted yes
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Florence Prag Kahn R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- John Henry Hoeppel D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- John George Stewart R-DE
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Hubert Utterback D-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed 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
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Donald Claude Dobbins D-IL
- Harry Howland Mason D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Martin Adlai Brennan D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-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
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- 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
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- 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
- 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
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Roy Elmer Ayers D-MT
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee 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
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio R-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Parker Corning D-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
- John Baker Hollister R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Leroy Tate Marshall R-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- William Alexander Ekwall R-OR
- 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
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Isaac Hoffer Doutrich R-PA
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- 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
- Gerald John Boileau O-WI
- George John Schneider O-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- George William Johnson D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- 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
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR
- Isabella Selmes Greenway D-AZ
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-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
- 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
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Bryant Thomas Castellow D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Bernhard Martin Jacobsen D-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- William Wright Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill 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
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- 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 Joseph Granfield D-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey 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
- Edward Carleton Moran Jr. D-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski 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
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon 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
- Lindsay Carter Warren 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
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- William Nathaniel Rogers D-NH
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- William Frank Brunner D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers 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
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Frederick James Sisson D-NY
- James Patrick Duffy 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
- Warren Joseph Duffey D-OH
- William Louis Fiesinger D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Charles Vilas Truax D-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- Percy Lee Gassaway D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey 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
- Denis Joseph Driscoll D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray 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
- 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
- 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
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton 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
- 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
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. 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
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
Voted present
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- George Burnham R-CA
- William Lincoln Higgins R-CT
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- William Voris Gregory D-KY
- Glover H. Cary D-KY
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Richard Manning Russell D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Simon Moulton Hamlin D-ME
- Henry Mahlon Kimball R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Prentiss Marsh Brown D-MI
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- James Robert Claiborne D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Aubert Culberson Dunn D-MS
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- William David Thomas R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Mell Gilbert Underwood D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Joshua Bryan Lee D-OK
- Clare Gerald Fenerty R-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Theodore B. Werner D-SD
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- John Kee D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
Did not vote
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- John Mcduffie D-AL
- Samuel LaFort Collins R-CA
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Michael Lambert Igoe D-IL
- Cap Robert Carden D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Verner Wright Main R-MI
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI
- Francis Bernard Condon D-RI
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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