House roll call 38 · 75th Congress · May 18, 1937
To adjourn.
On May 18, 1937, the House voted 185–142. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 127–125, Republicans 55–12, Others 4–6. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 137 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
- 185
- No
- 142
- Did not vote
- 118
- Date
- May 18, 1937
By party
- Democrats127 yes · 125 no · 89 didn’t vote
- Republicans55 yes · 12 no · 26 didn’t vote
- Others4 yes · 6 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ voted no
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted no
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted no
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA voted no
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA voted no
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA voted no
- Charles Kramer D-CA voted no
- John Martin Costello D-CA voted no
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA voted no
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA voted no
- John Andrew Martin D-CO voted no
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT voted no
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT voted no
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT voted no
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT voted no
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL voted no
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA voted no
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA voted no
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA voted no
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL voted no
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- James Mcandrews D-IL voted no
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL voted no
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL voted no
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL voted no
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL voted no
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL voted no
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL voted no
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN voted no
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted no
- James Indus Farley D-IN voted no
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN voted no
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- John Mills Houston D-KS voted no
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA voted no
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA voted no
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA voted no
- Robert Luce R-MA voted no
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA voted no
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted no
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted no
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD voted no
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD voted no
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD voted no
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI voted no
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI voted no
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski D-MI voted no
- William Lester Nelson D-MO voted no
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT voted no
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT voted no
- William Lemke R-ND voted no
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE voted no
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH voted no
- Charles William Tobey R-NH voted no
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ voted no
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ voted no
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted no
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM voted no
- William Bernard Barry D-NY voted no
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY voted no
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY voted no
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY voted no
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY voted no
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY voted no
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY voted no
And 57 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- 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
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox 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
- Paul Brown D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- 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
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Clyde Williams 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
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Lindsay Carter Warren 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
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- 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
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA
- Albert Greig Rutherford R-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- 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
- Luther Alexander Johnson 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
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Norman Rond Hamilton D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- 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
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy 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
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- John Toussaint Bernard O-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- William Lemke R-ND
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Marcellus Hugh Evans 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
- 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
- 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
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen 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
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Gerald John Boileau O-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
Did not vote
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- David John Lewis D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Bert Lord R-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- George John Schneider O-WI
- John Kee D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.