House roll call 119 · 75th Congress · Mar 31, 1938
To consider S. 3331, a bill to provide for reorganizing agencies of the government, extending the classified civil service, establishing a general auditing offi
On Mar 31, 1938, the House voted 202–143 (S 3331). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 211–56, Republicans 0–89, Others 2–9. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 56 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
- 202
- No
- 143
- Did not vote
- 18
- Date
- Mar 31, 1938
By party
- Democrats211 yes · 56 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 89 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 9 no
Who broke with their party
- William Joshua Driver D-AR voted no
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR voted no
- John Martin Costello D-CA voted no
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT voted no
- John Joseph Smith D-CT voted no
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted no
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA voted no
- David Worth Clark D-ID voted no
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL voted no
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL voted no
- Frank William Fries D-IL voted no
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL voted no
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL voted no
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN voted no
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN voted no
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted no
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA voted no
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD voted no
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD voted no
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN voted no
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO voted no
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE voted no
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE voted no
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted no
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ voted no
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ voted no
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM voted no
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY voted no
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY voted no
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH voted no
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH voted no
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH voted no
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH voted no
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted no
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH voted no
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA voted no
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA voted no
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA voted no
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA voted no
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA voted no
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA voted no
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA voted no
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA voted no
- Peter Joseph De Muth D-PA voted no
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI voted no
- Nat Patton D-TX voted no
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX voted no
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX voted no
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX voted no
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI voted no
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV voted no
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford 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
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Brent Spence 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
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- 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
- 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
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein 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
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- 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
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds 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
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- 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
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas 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
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Robert Low Bacon R-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
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Fred James Douglas 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
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-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
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-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
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- 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
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- John Toussaint Bernard O-MN
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Dow Watters Harter 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
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- John Kee D-WV
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
- 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.
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