House roll call 146 · 75th Congress · May 25, 1938
To pass H. R. 9873, the fair trade practices act for the district of columbia.
On May 25, 1938, the House voted 211–81 (HR 9873). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 149–71, Republicans 52–9, Others 10–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 80 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
- 211
- No
- 81
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- May 25, 1938
By party
- Democrats149 yes · 71 no · 27 didn’t vote
- Republicans52 yes · 9 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others10 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL voted no
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA voted no
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted no
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA voted no
- William Franklin Allen D-DE voted no
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL voted no
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA voted no
- David Worth Clark D-ID voted no
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL voted no
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL voted no
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL voted no
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL voted no
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL voted no
- James Mcandrews D-IL voted no
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL voted no
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL voted no
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL voted no
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL voted no
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL voted no
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY voted no
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted no
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY voted no
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA voted no
- John Keller Griffith D-LA voted no
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted no
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough 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
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell D-MI voted no
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Wall Doxey D-MS voted no
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted no
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS voted no
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS voted no
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC voted no
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ voted no
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted no
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY voted no
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- William Sterling Cole R-NY voted no
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY voted no
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH voted no
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK voted no
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK voted no
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK voted no
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA voted no
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA voted no
- John Buell Snyder D-PA voted no
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA voted no
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA voted no
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC voted no
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC voted no
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC voted no
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD voted no
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN voted no
- Albert Thomas D-TX voted no
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX voted no
- Charles Lacy South D-TX voted no
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT voted no
- Norman Rond Hamilton D-VA voted no
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA voted no
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA voted no
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA voted no
- John Main Coffee D-WA voted no
- George William Johnson D-WV voted no
- John Kee D-WV voted no
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler 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
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- 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
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-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
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- John Toussaint Bernard O-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- 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
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- 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
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Bert Lord R-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Byron Berry Harlan 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
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA
- Albert Greig Rutherford R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds 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
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- Harry Sauthoff 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
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon 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
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- Norman Rond Hamilton D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein 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
- 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
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Richard Merrill Atkinson D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Jennings Randolph 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
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- 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
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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