House roll call 91 · 75th Congress · Dec 10, 1937
To amend H. R. 8505, (p. A. 430), a bill providing for the conservation of national soil resources and an adequate and balanced flow of agricultural commodities
On Dec 10, 1937, the House voted 174–219 (HR 8505). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 81–219, Republicans 85–4, Others 12–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 85 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
- 174
- No
- 219
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Dec 10, 1937
By party
- Democrats81 yes · 219 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Republicans85 yes · 4 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others12 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted yes
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA voted yes
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA voted yes
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT voted yes
- John Joseph Smith D-CT voted yes
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted yes
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL voted yes
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL voted yes
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL voted yes
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted yes
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA voted yes
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted yes
- Paul Brown D-GA voted yes
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA voted no
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA voted no
- David Worth Clark D-ID voted yes
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN voted yes
- Edward White Patterson D-KS voted yes
- John Mills Houston D-KS voted yes
- Frank Carlson R-KS voted no
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted yes
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS voted yes
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS voted yes
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE voted yes
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE voted yes
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted yes
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ voted yes
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ voted yes
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ voted yes
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ voted yes
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ voted yes
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted yes
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ voted yes
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM voted yes
- William Bernard Barry D-NY voted yes
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY voted yes
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY voted yes
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY voted yes
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY voted yes
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY voted yes
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY voted yes
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH voted yes
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH voted yes
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted yes
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH voted yes
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH voted yes
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH voted yes
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH voted yes
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted yes
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted yes
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH voted yes
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted yes
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH voted yes
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH voted yes
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK voted yes
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK voted yes
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK voted yes
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK voted yes
- Will Rogers D-OK voted yes
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA voted yes
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA voted yes
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA voted yes
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA voted yes
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted yes
- Don Gingery D-PA voted yes
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA voted yes
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA voted yes
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA voted yes
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI voted yes
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC voted yes
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC voted yes
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted yes
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX voted yes
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA voted yes
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA voted yes
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA voted yes
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA voted yes
- Knute Hill D-WA voted yes
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA voted yes
And 5 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- 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
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-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
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-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
- 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
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY
- Frank Crowther 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
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- Lyle H. Boren 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
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA
- Albert Greig Rutherford R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- 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
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-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
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- 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
- 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
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford 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
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- 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
- 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
- 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
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman 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
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough 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
- 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
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan 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
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- 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
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- John Ridley Mitchell 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
- 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
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Richard Merrill Atkinson D-TN
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Did not vote
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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