House roll call 115 · 75th Congress · Mar 21, 1938
To pass H. R. 9218.
On Mar 21, 1938, the House voted 294–100 (HR 9218). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 273–33, Republicans 30–57, Others 1–12. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 63 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
- 294
- No
- 100
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Mar 21, 1938
By party
- Democrats273 yes · 33 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Republicans30 yes · 57 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 12 no
Who broke with their party
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA voted yes
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA voted yes
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA voted yes
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA voted no
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT voted no
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA voted no
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA voted no
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA voted no
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL voted yes
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted yes
- Edward White Patterson D-KS voted no
- John Mills Houston D-KS voted no
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA voted yes
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA voted yes
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted yes
- George Joseph Bates R-MA voted yes
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted yes
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME voted yes
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME voted yes
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted no
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI voted no
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI voted no
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN voted no
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN voted yes
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO voted no
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO voted no
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO voted no
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS voted no
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT voted no
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE voted no
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE voted no
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted no
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH voted yes
- Charles William Tobey R-NH voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ voted yes
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ voted yes
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY voted yes
- Bruce Barton R-NY voted yes
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY voted yes
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY voted no
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH voted no
- Dudley Allen White R-OH voted yes
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK voted no
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK voted no
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK voted no
- Will Rogers D-OK voted no
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR voted yes
- John William Ditter R-PA voted yes
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA voted yes
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA voted yes
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD voted no
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN voted yes
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX voted no
- Charles Lacy South D-TX voted no
- Knute Hill D-WA voted no
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI voted no
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI voted no
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI voted no
- Jennings Randolph D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- 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
- 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
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott 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
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT
- James Andrew Shanley 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
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas 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
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal 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
- Robert Louis Mouton 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
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- 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
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- 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
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-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
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- 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
- 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
- Bruce Barton R-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
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool 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
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-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 Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray 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
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece 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
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield 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
- 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
- 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
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay 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
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- 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
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Robert Luce R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman 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
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- John Toussaint Bernard O-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett 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
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Albert Greig Rutherford R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Knute Hill D-WA
- 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
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
Did not vote
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- 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
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.