House roll call 17 · 75th Congress · Mar 10, 1937
To pass H. R. 114, (p. A. 279), a bill providing for studies and plans for a development of a hydroelectric power project at cabinet gorge, on the clark fork of
On Mar 10, 1937, the House voted 204–137 (HR 114). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 190–69, Republicans 7–68, Others 9–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 76 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
- 204
- No
- 137
- Did not vote
- 102
- Date
- Mar 10, 1937
By party
- Democrats190 yes · 69 no · 82 didn’t vote
- Republicans7 yes · 68 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Others9 yes · 2 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted no
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA voted yes
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted no
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA voted no
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted no
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA voted no
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA voted no
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA voted no
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL voted no
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL voted no
- James Mcandrews D-IL voted no
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL voted no
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL voted no
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL voted no
- Frank William Fries D-IL voted no
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL voted no
- James Indus Farley D-IN voted no
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN voted no
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN voted no
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted no
- Edward White Patterson D-KS voted no
- John Mills Houston D-KS voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted no
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted no
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME voted yes
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI voted no
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO voted no
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO voted no
- Clyde Williams D-MO voted no
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO voted no
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS voted no
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC voted no
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC voted no
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ voted no
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ voted no
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ voted no
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ voted no
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY voted no
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY voted no
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY voted no
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY voted no
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY voted no
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY voted no
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH voted no
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH voted yes
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH voted no
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH voted no
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted no
- John Mcsweeney D-OH voted no
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA voted no
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA voted no
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC voted no
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC voted no
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD voted yes
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX voted no
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX voted no
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA voted no
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA voted no
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI voted no
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-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
- 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
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski 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
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- John Toussaint Bernard O-MN
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson 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
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- 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
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- William Richard Thom 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
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- 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
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Guy Jacob Swope 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
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer 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
- Richard Merrill Atkinson 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
- 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
- Milton Horace West 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
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Gerald John Boileau O-WI
- George John Schneider O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Stephen Pace 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
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. 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
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- 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
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-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
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- 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
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett 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
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- 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
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
Did not vote
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- Albert Edward Carter R-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
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth D-PA
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
Other votes
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