House roll call 194 · 76th Congress · Jul 30, 1940
To pass H.J. RES. 583, a bill making additional appropriations for the tennessee valley authority, to provide facilities to expedite the national defense.
On Jul 30, 1940, the House voted 265–93 (HJR 583). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 214–0, Republicans 52–98, Others 4–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 52 members voted against their own party.
During the 76th Congress (1939–1940), Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 265
- No
- 93
- Did not vote
- 32
- Date
- Jul 30, 1940
By party
- Democrats214 yes · 0 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Republicans52 yes · 98 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others4 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA voted yes
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA voted yes
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA voted yes
- Thomas Raymond Ball R-CT voted yes
- Albert Elmer Austin R-CT voted yes
- Boleslaus Joseph Monkiewicz R-CT voted yes
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted yes
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA voted yes
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted yes
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted yes
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted yes
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA voted yes
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted yes
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted yes
- 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
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted yes
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME voted yes
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME voted yes
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME voted yes
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI voted yes
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI voted yes
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI voted yes
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- Walter Sooy Jeffries R-NJ voted yes
- David Lane Powers R-NJ voted yes
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY voted yes
- Bruce Barton R-NY voted yes
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY voted yes
- Hamilton Fish R-NY voted yes
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY voted yes
- Frank Crowther R-NY voted yes
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY voted yes
- Joseph John O'Brien R-NY voted yes
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY voted yes
- John Francis Harter R-NY voted yes
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR voted yes
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR voted yes
- Fred Christian Gartner R-PA voted yes
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA voted yes
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA voted yes
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD voted yes
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN voted yes
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN voted yes
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Clyde Taylor Ellis D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Lee Edward Geyer D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Thomas Raymond Ball R-CT
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- Albert Elmer Austin R-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- Boleslaus Joseph Monkiewicz R-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Willis Benjamin Gibbs D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Anton Frank Maciejewski D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- James Martin Barnes D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-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
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- David Jenkins Ward D-MD
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- William Devereux Byron D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-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
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. 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
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Walter Sooy Jeffries R-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Morris Michael Edelstein D-NY
- Michael Joseph Kennedy D-NY
- James Herbert Fay D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- Joseph John O'Brien R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- John Francis Harter R-NY
- Pius Louis Schwert D-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney 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
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Fred Christian Gartner R-PA
- Francis John Myers D-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Joseph A. Mcardle D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Clara Gooding Mcmillan D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns Jr. D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. 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
- Ed Lee Gossett 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
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. 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
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Leland Merritt Ford R-CA
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- George Short Williams R-DE
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- William Howard Wheat R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- John Grant Alexander R-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Oscar Ferdinand Youngdahl R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Jacob Thorkelson R-MT
- John Hyde Sweet R-NE
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Harry Nelson Routzohn R-OH
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- James Seccombe R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Lycurgus Luther Marshall R-OH
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-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
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- Harry Sandager R-RI
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Stephen Bolles R-WI
- Charles Hawks Jr. R-WI
- John Charles Schafer R-WI
- Lewis Dominic Thill R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Joshua Leroy Johns R-WI
- Andrew Charles Schiffler R-WV
- Frank Ogilvie Horton R-WY
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Robert Kingman Goodwin R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- John Cunningham Martin D-IL
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Alonzo Dillard Folger D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Foster Waterman Stearns R-NH
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Albert Lincoln Vreeland R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Did not vote
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Zadoc Lorenzo Weatherford D-AL
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- Thomas Marion Eaton R-CA
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- William Evans Burney D-CO
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Florence Reville Gibbs D-GA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Thomas Vernor Smith D-IL
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- George Henry Heinke R-NE
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Wallace Edgar Pierce R-NY
- Bert Lord R-NY
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- Harry Wilbur Griswold R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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