House roll call 148 · 75th Congress · Jun 9, 1938
To agree to the first proposition in H. RES. 482, on the contested election case of alphonse roy VS. Arthur b. Jenks, which resolves that arthur b. Jenks was no
On Jun 9, 1938, the House voted 214–122 (HR 482). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 222–31, Republicans 0–89, Others 1–12. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 31 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
- 214
- No
- 122
- Did not vote
- 27
- Date
- Jun 9, 1938
By party
- Democrats222 yes · 31 no · 23 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 89 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 12 no
Who broke with their party
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL voted no
- John Martin Costello D-CA voted no
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA voted no
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL voted no
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted no
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted no
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE voted no
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM voted no
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY voted no
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH voted no
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH voted no
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH voted no
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH voted no
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK voted no
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR voted no
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC voted no
- Richard Merrill Atkinson D-TN voted no
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN voted no
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN voted no
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX voted no
- James William Robinson D-UT voted no
- Knute Hill D-WA voted no
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA voted no
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI voted no
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford 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
- 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
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-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
- Claude VanCleve Parsons 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
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- 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
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. 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
- James Francis O'Connor 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
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- Edward Leo O'Neill 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
- 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
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- 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
- Ira Walton Drew D-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
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- John Buell Snyder 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
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds 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
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham 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
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. 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
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough 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
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow 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
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- John Toussaint Bernard O-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- 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
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-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
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-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
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Richard Merrill Atkinson D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- 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
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
Voted present
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- Norman Rond Hamilton D-VA
Did not vote
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-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
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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