House roll call 12 · 75th Congress · Feb 15, 1937
To suspend the rules and pass S. J. RES. 70, (p. Res. 8), relating to participation by the U.S. In the international exposition of paris, 1937.
On Feb 15, 1937, the House voted 245–104 (SJR 70). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 236–32, Republicans 13–74, Others 8–4. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 45 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
- 245
- No
- 104
- Did not vote
- 80
- Date
- Feb 15, 1937
By party
- Democrats236 yes · 32 no · 73 didn’t vote
- Republicans13 yes · 74 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Others8 yes · 4 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR voted no
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR voted no
- 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
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA voted no
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted no
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS voted yes
- Edward White Patterson D-KS voted no
- John Mills Houston D-KS voted no
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted yes
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted yes
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE voted no
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE voted no
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted no
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ voted no
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ voted no
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ voted no
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV voted no
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY voted yes
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH voted no
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK voted no
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK voted no
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK voted no
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK voted no
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA voted no
- Don Gingery D-PA voted no
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA voted no
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC voted no
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN voted yes
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX voted no
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA voted no
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- 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 Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-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
- 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
- Charles J. Colden 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
- 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
- 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
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington 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
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal 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
- 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
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-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
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- 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
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- John Toussaint Bernard O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood 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
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Lindsay Carter Warren 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
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Charles Anderson Wolverton 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan 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
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards 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
- 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
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. 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
- 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
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- John Main Coffee 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
- Gerald John Boileau 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
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- 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
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes 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
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener 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
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-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
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin 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
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- James Wolfenden R-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
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- George John Schneider O-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
Did not vote
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- John Kee D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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