House roll call 86 · 75th Congress · Aug 18, 1937
To pass S. 1685, (p. A. 412), a bill providing financial assistance to states for the elimination of substandard housing, urban renewal, for reduction of unempl
On Aug 18, 1937, the House voted 275–86 (S 1685). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 245–41, Republicans 25–52, Others 12–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 66 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
- 275
- No
- 86
- Did not vote
- 72
- Date
- Aug 18, 1937
By party
- Democrats245 yes · 41 no · 55 didn’t vote
- Republicans25 yes · 52 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Others12 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR voted no
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR voted no
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA voted yes
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted no
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL voted no
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA voted no
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted no
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA voted no
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA voted no
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA voted yes
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted yes
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted yes
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted yes
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted yes
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL voted yes
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted no
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI voted yes
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI voted yes
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI voted yes
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Wall Doxey D-MS voted no
- William Madison Whittington 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
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE voted no
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted no
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- David Lane Powers R-NJ voted yes
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ voted yes
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY voted yes
- Hamilton Fish R-NY voted yes
- Frank Crowther R-NY voted yes
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY voted yes
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY voted yes
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH voted yes
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH voted no
- John Conover Nichols D-OK voted no
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR voted yes
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC voted no
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC voted no
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC voted no
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN voted no
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN voted no
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN voted no
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX voted no
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX voted no
- Nat Patton D-TX voted no
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX voted no
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX voted no
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX voted no
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted no
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA voted no
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA voted no
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA voted no
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
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan 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
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis 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
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- John Andrew Martin 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
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-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
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- James Indus Farley 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
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-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
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood 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
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- 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
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- 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
- 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 Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock 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
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Robert Crosser 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
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson 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
- 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
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Richard Merrill Atkinson D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- 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
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Gerald John Boileau 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
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Andrew Jackson May D-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
- 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
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Ernest Harold Cluett 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
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- John Conover Nichols 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
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- 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
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
Did not vote
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Norman Rond Hamilton D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- 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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