House roll call 42 · 75th Congress · Jun 1, 1937
To amend H. J. RES. 361, (p. Res. 47), a resolution making appropriations for relief purposes, by increasing by $500,000,000 the amount of these appropriations.
On Jun 1, 1937, the House voted 271–107 (HJR 361). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 242–54, Republicans 24–60, Others 12–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 78 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
- 271
- No
- 107
- Did not vote
- 55
- Date
- Jun 1, 1937
By party
- Democrats242 yes · 54 no · 45 didn’t vote
- Republicans24 yes · 60 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Others12 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Joe Starnes D-AL voted no
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA voted yes
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA voted yes
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA voted yes
- John Martin Costello D-CA voted no
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO voted no
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox 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
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA voted no
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA voted yes
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN voted no
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN voted no
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN voted no
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS voted yes
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS voted yes
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted yes
- Frank Carlson R-KS voted yes
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted yes
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted no
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted yes
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD voted no
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME voted yes
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted yes
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN voted yes
- Harold Knutson R-MN voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Wall Doxey D-MS voted no
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted no
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC voted no
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC voted no
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC voted no
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted no
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted yes
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted no
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- David Lane Powers R-NJ voted yes
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ voted yes
- Byron Berry Harlan 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
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK voted no
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK voted no
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR voted yes
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC voted no
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC voted no
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC voted no
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC voted no
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD voted yes
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN voted no
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN voted no
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN voted no
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX voted no
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX voted no
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX voted no
- Milton Horace West D-TX voted no
- Charles Lacy South D-TX voted no
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA voted no
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA voted no
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA voted no
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA voted no
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA voted no
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA 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
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- William Ben Cravens 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
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- 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
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-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
- 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
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe 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
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-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
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- 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
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- 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
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- John Toussaint Bernard O-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-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
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- 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
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- 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
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter 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
- 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 Richard Thom D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-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 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
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Richard Merrill Atkinson D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane 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
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Norman Rond Hamilton D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith 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
- 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
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- 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
- Paul Brown D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- 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
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes 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
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener 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
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin 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
- Byron Berry Harlan 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
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- 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
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland 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
Did not vote
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Other votes
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