House roll call 93 · 75th Congress · Dec 10, 1937
To recommit H. R. 8505, to the committee on agriculture.
On Dec 10, 1937, the House voted 196–205 (HR 8505). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 105–205, Republicans 85–4, Others 11–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 109 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
- 196
- No
- 205
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Dec 10, 1937
By party
- Democrats105 yes · 205 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Republicans85 yes · 4 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others11 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Joe Starnes D-AL voted yes
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA voted yes
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA voted yes
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA voted yes
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA voted yes
- Charles Kramer D-CA voted yes
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA voted yes
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted yes
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT voted yes
- John Joseph Smith D-CT voted yes
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL voted yes
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL voted yes
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted yes
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted yes
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted yes
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA voted yes
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA voted yes
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA voted no
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA voted no
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA voted yes
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID voted yes
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL voted yes
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL voted yes
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL voted yes
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL voted yes
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL voted yes
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney 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
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL voted yes
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL voted yes
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL voted yes
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL voted yes
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN voted yes
- James Indus Farley D-IN voted yes
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN voted yes
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN voted yes
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN voted yes
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN voted yes
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN voted yes
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN voted yes
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN voted yes
- Louis Leon Ludlow 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
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY voted yes
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO voted yes
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted yes
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO voted yes
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted yes
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT 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 Leo O'Neill D-NJ voted yes
- Frank William Towey Jr. 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
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY voted yes
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH voted yes
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH voted yes
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH voted yes
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH voted yes
- Harold Kile Claypool 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
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted yes
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH voted yes
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH voted yes
And 29 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- 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
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski 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
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-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
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- 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
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee 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
- Emmet O'Neal 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
- 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
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- 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
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Martin John Kennedy 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
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- 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
- 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
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- John Mcsweeney 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
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen 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
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon 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
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs 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
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott 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
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-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
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-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
- 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
- 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
- David John Lewis 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
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- 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
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- 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
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-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
- 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
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- William Richard Thom 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
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert 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
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-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
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham 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
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
Voted present
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- 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
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Richard Merrill Atkinson D-TN
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
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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