House roll call 127 · 75th Congress · Apr 19, 1938
To amend H. R. 10238, (p. A. 644), a bill to make appropriations for department of agriculture, 1939, by increasing appropriations to aid tenant farmers from $1
On Apr 19, 1938, the House voted 149–154 (HR 10238). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 129–98, Republicans 10–59, Others 13–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 108 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
- 149
- No
- 154
- Did not vote
- 34
- Date
- Apr 19, 1938
By party
- Democrats129 yes · 98 no · 30 didn’t vote
- Republicans10 yes · 59 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others13 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL voted no
- William Ben Cravens D-AR voted no
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA voted no
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO voted no
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO voted no
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO voted no
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT voted no
- John Joseph Smith D-CT voted no
- William Michael Citron D-CT voted no
- William Franklin Allen D-DE voted no
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted no
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted no
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA voted no
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA voted no
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA voted yes
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA voted yes
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL voted no
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted yes
- Frank Carlson R-KS voted yes
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted yes
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY voted no
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA voted no
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA voted no
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA voted no
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD voted no
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD voted no
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD voted no
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD voted no
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI voted no
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski D-MI voted no
- Clyde Williams D-MO voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO voted no
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC voted no
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC voted no
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC voted no
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC voted no
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted no
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE voted no
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted yes
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted no
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ voted no
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ voted no
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ voted no
- William Bernard Barry D-NY voted no
- Thomas Henry Cullen 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
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY voted no
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted no
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY voted no
- Edward Walter Curley 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
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY voted no
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY voted no
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH voted no
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH voted no
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- William Richard Thom D-OH voted no
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted no
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted no
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH voted no
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH voted no
- Leon Sacks D-PA voted no
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA voted no
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA voted no
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA voted no
And 28 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- 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
- Beverly Mills Vincent 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
- 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
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- 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
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Morgan Gurley Sanders 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
- 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
- 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
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley 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
- George William Johnson D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Allen Towner Treadway 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
- Robert Luce R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- 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
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Lindsay Carter Warren 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 Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen 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
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Bert Lord R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland 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
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- 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
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- John Kee D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- 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
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Richard Merrill Atkinson D-TN
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
Did not vote
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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