House roll call 88 · 75th Congress · Aug 21, 1937
To concur in Senate amendment no. 24 to H. R. 8245, (p. A. 354), a bill making approprations to supply deficiencies for fiscal 1937, and supplemental appropriat
On Aug 21, 1937, the House voted 201–127 (HR 8245). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 216–58, Republicans 4–78, Others 0–11. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 62 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
- 201
- No
- 127
- Did not vote
- 80
- Date
- Aug 21, 1937
By party
- Democrats216 yes · 58 no · 67 didn’t vote
- Republicans4 yes · 78 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 11 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA voted yes
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT voted no
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT voted no
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT voted no
- John Joseph Smith D-CT voted no
- William Michael Citron D-CT voted no
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA voted no
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA voted no
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA voted no
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA voted no
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA voted no
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL voted no
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL voted no
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL voted no
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN voted no
- Edward White Patterson D-KS voted no
- John Mills Houston D-KS voted no
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY voted no
- David John Lewis D-MD voted no
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI voted no
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO voted no
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO voted no
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO voted no
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT voted no
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE voted no
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE voted no
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted no
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ voted no
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ voted no
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ voted no
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY voted no
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY voted no
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY voted no
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY voted no
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH voted no
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH voted no
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH voted no
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH voted no
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR voted no
- Leon Sacks D-PA voted no
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA voted no
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA voted no
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA voted no
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA voted no
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA voted no
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI voted no
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI voted no
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD voted no
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN voted yes
- James Willis Taylor R-TN voted yes
- Knute Hill D-WA voted no
- John Main Coffee D-WA voted no
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI voted no
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI voted no
- Jennings Randolph D-WV voted no
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV voted no
- John Kee D-WV 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
- William Brockman Bankhead 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
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis 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 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
- 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
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May 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
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- 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
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Clyde Williams 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
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- 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
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers 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
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols 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
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth 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
- 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
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Albert Thomas 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
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- George Herman Mahon 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
- 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
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- 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
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien 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
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray 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
- Beverly Mills Vincent 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
- David John Lewis D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-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
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- John Toussaint Bernard O-MN
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- 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
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- James Joseph Lanzetta 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
- 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
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-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
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Knute Hill 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
- George John Schneider O-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
Did not vote
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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