House roll call 6 · 75th Congress · Feb 8, 1937
To amend H. R. 3587, (p. A. 4), supplemental appropriations for fiscal 1937, by removing the limitation of $3,600 per annum on salaries of those who assist in i
On Feb 8, 1937, the House voted 227–132 (HR 3587). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 231–50, Republicans 4–77, Others 0–13. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 54 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
- 227
- No
- 132
- Did not vote
- 72
- Date
- Feb 8, 1937
By party
- Democrats231 yes · 50 no · 60 didn’t vote
- Republicans4 yes · 77 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 13 no
Who broke with their party
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA voted no
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA voted no
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA voted no
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID voted no
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL voted no
- Frank William Fries D-IL voted no
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL voted no
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN voted no
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted yes
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY voted no
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY voted no
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted no
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA voted no
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA voted no
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA voted no
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI voted yes
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI voted no
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI voted no
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS voted no
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT voted no
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC voted no
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM voted no
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY voted yes
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH voted no
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH voted no
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- William Richard Thom D-OH voted no
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted no
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH voted no
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR voted no
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA voted no
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA voted no
- John Clarence Taylor 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
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX voted no
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX voted no
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted no
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA voted no
- John Main Coffee D-WA voted no
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI voted no
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall 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
- William Ben Cravens 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
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath 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
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- 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
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- 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
- 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
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold 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
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory 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
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-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
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- William Lester Nelson 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
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- 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
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Edward Leo O'Neill 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
- 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
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-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
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley 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
- 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
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter 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
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Herron Carney Pearson 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
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick 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
- 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
- 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
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- 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
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-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
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman 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
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-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
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- 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
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- 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
- 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
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-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
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
Did not vote
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Albert Greig Rutherford R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth D-PA
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Richard Merrill Atkinson D-TN
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- John Kee D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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