House roll call 94 · 75th Congress · Dec 10, 1937
To pass H. R. 8505
On Dec 10, 1937, the House voted 267–130 (HR 8505). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 252–58, Republicans 12–75, Others 11–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 70 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
- 267
- No
- 130
- Did not vote
- 21
- Date
- Dec 10, 1937
By party
- Democrats252 yes · 58 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Republicans12 yes · 75 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Others11 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted no
- Joe Starnes D-AL voted no
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA voted no
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA voted no
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO voted no
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT voted no
- John Joseph Smith D-CT voted no
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL voted no
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL voted no
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted no
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted no
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA voted yes
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA voted yes
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA voted yes
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL voted no
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL voted no
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL voted no
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS voted yes
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted yes
- Frank Carlson R-KS voted yes
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted yes
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY voted no
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted no
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ voted no
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ voted no
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ voted no
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ voted no
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM voted no
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV voted no
- William Bernard Barry D-NY voted no
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY voted no
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY voted no
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH voted no
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH voted no
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH voted no
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH voted no
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH voted no
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH voted no
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted no
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted no
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH voted no
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK voted no
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK voted no
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK voted no
- Will Rogers D-OK voted no
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA voted no
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA voted no
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA voted no
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA voted no
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA voted no
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI voted no
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD voted yes
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN voted yes
- James Willis Taylor R-TN voted yes
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX voted no
- Milton Horace West D-TX voted no
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA voted no
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA voted no
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI voted no
- Jennings Randolph D-WV voted no
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV voted no
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall 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
- 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
- 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
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- 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
- 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
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-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
- David Worth Clark 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
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen 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
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Robert Crosser 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
- Jed Joseph Johnson 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
- 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
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- 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
- 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
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Gerald John Boileau O-WI
- George John Schneider O-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- 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
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- 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
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- 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
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- William Lemke R-ND
- Karl Stefan R-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
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Marcellus Hugh Evans 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
- 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
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- Lyle H. Boren 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
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Voted present
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- David John Lewis 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
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed 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
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.