House roll call 111 · 75th Congress · Mar 11, 1938
To amend H. R. 9682, by imposing an additional tax of 25 cents per gal. On whiskey in order to make up the loss of approximately $30 million of revenue through
On Mar 11, 1938, the House voted 290–96 (S 1300). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 216–76, Republicans 66–19, Others 10–3. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 95 members voted against their own party.
During the 75th Congress (1937–1938), Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 290
- No
- 96
- Did not vote
- 21
- Date
- Mar 11, 1938
By party
- Democrats216 yes · 76 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Republicans66 yes · 19 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Others10 yes · 3 no
Who broke with their party
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA voted no
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted no
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA voted no
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA voted no
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA voted no
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA voted no
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA voted no
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL voted no
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL voted no
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL voted no
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL voted no
- James Mcandrews D-IL voted no
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL voted no
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL voted no
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL voted no
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN voted no
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN voted no
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN voted no
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY voted no
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted no
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted no
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA voted no
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA voted no
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA voted no
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA voted no
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted no
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted no
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD voted no
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD voted no
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD voted no
- David John Lewis D-MD voted no
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME voted no
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski D-MI voted no
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted no
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN voted no
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN voted no
- Harold Knutson R-MN voted no
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO voted no
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO voted no
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted no
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ voted no
- David Lane Powers R-NJ voted no
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ voted no
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ voted no
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ voted no
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ voted no
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted no
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ voted no
- William Bernard Barry D-NY voted no
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY voted no
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY voted no
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY voted no
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY voted no
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY voted no
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY voted no
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY voted no
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY voted no
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY voted no
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY voted no
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY voted no
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted no
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY voted no
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY voted no
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY voted no
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY voted no
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY voted no
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY voted no
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY voted no
And 15 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- John Toussaint Bernard O-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-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
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley 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
- 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
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett 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
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-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
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Gomer Griffith Smith 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
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA
- Albert Greig Rutherford R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett 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
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Richard Merrill Atkinson 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
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage 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
- Clyde Leonard Garrett 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
- Norman Rond Hamilton D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. 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
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- 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
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-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
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
Did not vote
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
Other votes
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