House roll call 18 · 75th Congress · Mar 18, 1937
To recommit S. J. RES. 51, (p. Res. 27), the neutrality act of 1937, with instructions to add that it shall be unlawful to export implements of war in time of p
On Mar 18, 1937, the House voted 118–275 (SJR 51). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 48–259, Republicans 61–23, Others 12–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 71 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
- 118
- No
- 275
- Did not vote
- 43
- Date
- Mar 18, 1937
By party
- Democrats48 yes · 259 no · 34 didn’t vote
- Republicans61 yes · 23 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Others12 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ voted yes
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted no
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA voted no
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA voted yes
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA voted yes
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT voted yes
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL voted yes
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted yes
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA voted yes
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted no
- Frank William Fries D-IL voted yes
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted no
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN voted yes
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN voted yes
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted yes
- Edward White Patterson D-KS voted yes
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA voted no
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA voted yes
- Robert Luce R-MA voted no
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA voted no
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted no
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI voted yes
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN voted no
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted yes
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT voted yes
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE voted yes
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted no
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ voted yes
- David Lane Powers R-NJ voted no
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ voted no
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ voted no
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ voted no
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ voted no
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ voted yes
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ voted no
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ voted yes
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ voted yes
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY voted no
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY voted no
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY voted no
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY voted no
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY voted no
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY voted yes
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH voted yes
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH voted yes
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted yes
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH voted yes
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted yes
- William Richard Thom D-OH voted yes
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted yes
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH voted yes
- John Mcsweeney D-OH voted yes
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK voted yes
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR voted yes
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR voted yes
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA voted yes
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD voted yes
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN voted no
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX voted yes
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX voted yes
- Charles Lacy South D-TX voted yes
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT voted no
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA voted yes
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA voted yes
- Knute Hill D-WA voted yes
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA voted yes
- John Main Coffee D-WA voted yes
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI voted yes
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- 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
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- 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
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-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
- 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
- Henry George Teigan O-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
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- Hamilton Fish 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
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-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
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Nan Wood Honeyman 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
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Warren Grant Magnuson 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
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-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
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead 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
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-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
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- 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
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell 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
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- 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
- Ralph Edwin Church R-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
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- 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
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- 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
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth 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
- 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
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer 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
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- 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
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- 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
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- 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
- 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
- Oliver Walter Frey 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
- 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
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- George Herman Mahon 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
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-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
Did not vote
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- 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
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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