House roll call 92 · 75th Congress · Dec 10, 1937
To amend H. R. 8505, by providing that farmers shall grow soil-building or soil-conserving crops on land withdrawn from production of wheat, cotton, or other co
On Dec 10, 1937, the House voted 202–188 (HR 8505). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 108–185, Republicans 84–6, Others 13–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 114 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
- 202
- No
- 188
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Dec 10, 1937
By party
- Democrats108 yes · 185 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Republicans84 yes · 6 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Others13 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted yes
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA voted yes
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA voted yes
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA voted yes
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA voted yes
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO voted yes
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO voted yes
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT voted yes
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT voted yes
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT voted yes
- John Joseph Smith D-CT voted yes
- William Michael Citron D-CT voted yes
- William Franklin Allen D-DE voted yes
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA voted yes
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA voted yes
- David Worth Clark D-ID voted yes
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL voted yes
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL voted yes
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL voted yes
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted yes
- James Mcandrews D-IL voted yes
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL voted yes
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL voted yes
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL voted yes
- Frank William Fries D-IL voted yes
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL voted yes
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL voted yes
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN voted yes
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted no
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN voted yes
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted yes
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- Frank Carlson R-KS voted no
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted no
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA voted yes
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA voted yes
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA voted yes
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted yes
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN voted yes
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT voted yes
- Charles Gustav Binderup 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
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV voted yes
- William Bernard Barry D-NY voted yes
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY voted yes
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY voted yes
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY voted yes
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY voted yes
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY voted yes
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY voted yes
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY voted yes
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY voted yes
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY voted yes
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY voted yes
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted yes
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY voted yes
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY voted yes
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY voted yes
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY voted yes
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY voted yes
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY voted yes
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY voted yes
- James Michael Mead D-NY voted yes
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY voted yes
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY voted yes
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH voted yes
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH voted yes
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH voted yes
- James Gould Polk 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
And 34 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien 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
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- 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
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-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
- 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
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup 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
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- 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
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-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
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- James Gould Polk 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
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- 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
- John William Ditter 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 Richard Eckert D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- Howard Worth Smith 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
- 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
How each representative voted: No
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes 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
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT
- 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
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-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
- William Purnell Lambertson 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
- 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
- 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
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson 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
- Charles Arthur Anderson 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
- 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
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter 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
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- 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
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. 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
- 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
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- John Buell Snyder 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
- John Steven Mcgroarty 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
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- 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
- 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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