House roll call 50 · 75th Congress · Jun 9, 1937
To pass H. R. 5394, (p. A. 195), a bill providing for the acquisition of certain lands for yosemite national park.
On Jun 9, 1937, the House voted 183–128 (HR 5394). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 178–63, Republicans 8–70, Others 7–5. 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
- 183
- No
- 128
- Did not vote
- 116
- Date
- Jun 9, 1937
By party
- Democrats178 yes · 63 no · 100 didn’t vote
- Republicans8 yes · 70 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Others7 yes · 5 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Elvis Miller D-AR voted no
- William Ben Cravens D-AR voted no
- David Dickson Terry D-AR voted no
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- John Joseph Smith D-CT voted no
- William Michael Citron D-CT voted no
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted no
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL voted no
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL voted no
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL voted no
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL voted no
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL voted no
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL voted no
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL voted no
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL voted no
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL voted no
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL voted no
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS voted yes
- Edward White Patterson D-KS voted no
- John Mills Houston D-KS voted no
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted no
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD voted no
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME voted yes
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted yes
- Clyde Williams D-MO voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Wall Doxey D-MS voted no
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted no
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC voted no
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC voted no
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE voted no
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE voted no
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE voted no
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ voted no
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ voted yes
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ voted no
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY voted no
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH voted no
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH voted no
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH voted no
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA voted no
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA voted no
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA voted no
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted no
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA voted no
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI voted no
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC voted no
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC voted no
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD voted no
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN voted no
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN voted no
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN voted no
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN voted no
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX voted no
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX voted no
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted no
- Charles Lacy South D-TX voted no
- Norman Rond Hamilton D-VA voted no
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA voted no
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA voted no
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill 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
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- 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
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty 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
- Byron Nicholson Scott 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
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Beverly Mills Vincent 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
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- John Toussaint Bernard O-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. 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
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter 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
- Robert Thompson Secrest 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
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Richard Merrill Atkinson 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
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Gerald John Boileau O-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- John Mills Houston D-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
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott 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
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- 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
- 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 Charles Kniffin D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-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
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Norman Rond Hamilton D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- George John Schneider O-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
Did not vote
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-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
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- John Kee D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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