House roll call 56 · 75th Congress · Jun 22, 1937
To pass H. R. 2271, a bill setting up a court to judically try the question of the good behavior of a federal judge against whom impeachment charges have been p
On Jun 22, 1937, the House voted 220–126 (HR 2771). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 215–63, Republicans 8–68, Others 6–4. 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
- 220
- No
- 126
- Did not vote
- 83
- Date
- Jun 22, 1937
By party
- Democrats215 yes · 63 no · 63 didn’t vote
- Republicans8 yes · 68 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Others6 yes · 4 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA voted yes
- Charles Kramer D-CA voted no
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA voted no
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA voted no
- David Worth Clark D-ID voted no
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL voted no
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted yes
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL voted no
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL voted no
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL voted no
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN voted no
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN voted no
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted no
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS voted yes
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY voted no
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted no
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted no
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY voted yes
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA voted no
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted no
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD voted no
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD voted no
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD voted no
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted no
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS voted no
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted no
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC voted no
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle 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
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ voted no
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY voted no
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY voted no
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY voted no
- Hamilton Fish R-NY voted yes
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY voted no
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day 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
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted no
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH voted no
- John Mcsweeney D-OH voted no
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK voted no
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA voted no
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA voted no
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC voted no
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN voted no
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX voted no
- Albert Thomas D-TX voted no
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX voted no
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX voted no
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted no
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX voted no
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI voted no
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
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- 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
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- John Martin Costello 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
- James Andrew Shanley 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
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton 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
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- 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
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt 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
- 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
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson 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
- Michael Joseph Bradley 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
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Richard Merrill Atkinson D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX
- John Marvin Jones 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
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren 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
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-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
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT
- Paul Brown D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway 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
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener 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
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Charles William Tobey 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
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-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
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- 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
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Gerald John Boileau O-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
Did not vote
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Toussaint Bernard O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- George John Schneider O-WI
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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