House roll call 82 · 75th Congress · Aug 13, 1937
To recommit H. R. 7950, (p. A. 362), a bill amending the district of columbia alcholic beverage control act, with ininstructions to strike sections 1&2 of the b
On Aug 13, 1937, the House voted 191–119 (HR 7950). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 148–114, Republicans 54–18, Others 7–4. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 132 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
- 191
- No
- 119
- Did not vote
- 102
- Date
- Aug 13, 1937
By party
- Democrats148 yes · 114 no · 79 didn’t vote
- Republicans54 yes · 18 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Others7 yes · 4 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA voted no
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted no
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA voted no
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA voted no
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA voted no
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA voted no
- John Martin Costello D-CA voted no
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA voted no
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA voted no
- William Franklin Allen D-DE voted no
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL voted no
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA voted no
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL voted no
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL voted no
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL voted no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL voted no
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL voted no
- James Mcandrews D-IL voted no
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL voted no
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL voted no
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted no
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL voted no
- Frank William Fries D-IL voted no
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL voted no
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL voted no
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL voted no
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL voted no
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN voted no
- James Indus Farley D-IN voted no
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN voted no
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN voted no
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA voted no
- George Holden Tinkham R-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
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD voted no
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted no
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted no
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI voted no
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski D-MI voted no
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted no
- Harold Knutson R-MN voted no
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO voted no
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO voted no
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- Clyde Williams D-MO voted no
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO voted no
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO voted no
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS voted no
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT voted no
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT voted no
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted no
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ voted no
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ voted no
- David Lane Powers R-NJ voted no
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ voted no
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ voted no
- Edward Leo O'Neill 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
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY voted no
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY voted no
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY voted no
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY voted no
- Andrew Lawrence Somers 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
And 52 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin 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
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- 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
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood 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
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- 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
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- David John Lewis D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman 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
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr 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
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Hamilton Fish 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
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney 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
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-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
- Don Gingery D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer 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
- James Willis Taylor 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
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Albert Thomas 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
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Norman Rond Hamilton D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- George William Johnson D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- 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
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- 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
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold 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
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Robert Low Bacon R-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
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan 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
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter 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
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- James Patrick Mcgranery 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
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth 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
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Gerald John Boileau O-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
Did not vote
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- John Toussaint Bernard O-MN
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor 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
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- George John Schneider O-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Other votes
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