House roll call 14 · 75th Congress · Mar 3, 1937
To pass H. R. 2723, a bill providing an equipment allowance to third-class postmasters when they must supply their own office furniture, etc.
On Mar 3, 1937, the House voted 305–32 (HR 2723). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 242–13, Republicans 52–19, Others 11–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 32 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
- 305
- No
- 32
- Did not vote
- 110
- Date
- Mar 3, 1937
By party
- Democrats242 yes · 13 no · 86 didn’t vote
- Republicans52 yes · 19 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Others11 yes · 0 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO voted no
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA voted no
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA voted no
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted no
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted no
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY voted no
- George Joseph Bates R-MA voted no
- Robert Luce R-MA voted no
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI voted no
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT voted no
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ voted no
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ voted no
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY voted no
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY voted no
- Frank Crowther R-NY voted no
- Bert Lord R-NY voted no
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- William Sterling Cole R-NY voted no
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH voted no
- William Richard Thom D-OH voted no
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA voted no
- Albert Greig Rutherford R-PA voted no
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN voted no
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens 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 Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- 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
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends 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
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee 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
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-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
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- Harold Knutson R-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
- Charles Arthur Anderson 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
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- 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
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton 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
- 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
- Theodore Albert Peyser 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
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Robert Potter Hill 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
- 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
- James Wolfenden R-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
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter 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
- 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
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- 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
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- 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
- Harry Sauthoff 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
- 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
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Bert Lord R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Albert Greig Rutherford R-PA
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
Did not vote
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- David John Lewis D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark 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 Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Norman Rond Hamilton D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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