House roll call 25 · 76th Congress · Mar 20, 1939
To pass H.R. 4852- interior dept. Appropriation bill, fiscal 1940.
On Mar 20, 1939, the House voted 267–105 (HR 4852). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 238–2, Republicans 42–118, Others 3–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 44 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
- 267
- No
- 105
- Did not vote
- 27
- Date
- Mar 20, 1939
By party
- Democrats238 yes · 2 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Republicans42 yes · 118 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA voted yes
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA voted yes
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA voted yes
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA voted yes
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA voted yes
- Leland Merritt Ford R-CA voted yes
- Thomas Marion Eaton R-CA voted yes
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA voted yes
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID voted yes
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted yes
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL voted yes
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN voted yes
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME voted yes
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME voted yes
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME voted yes
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI voted yes
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI voted yes
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted yes
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN voted yes
- Jacob Thorkelson R-MT voted yes
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted yes
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE voted yes
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH voted yes
- Foster Waterman Stearns R-NH voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- Walter Sooy Jeffries R-NJ voted yes
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH 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
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted yes
- Harve Tibbott R-PA voted yes
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA voted yes
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD voted yes
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD voted yes
- Andrew Charles Schiffler R-WV voted yes
- Frank Ogilvie Horton R-WY voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- 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
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Clyde Taylor Ellis 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
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart 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
- Leland Merritt Ford R-CA
- Lee Edward Geyer D-CA
- Thomas Marion Eaton R-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
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen 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
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- 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
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Thomas Vernor Smith D-IL
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Paul Herbert Maloney 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
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- 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
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz D-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-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
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. 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
- Jacob Thorkelson R-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
- Alonzo Dillard Folger D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton 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
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Foster Waterman Stearns R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Walter Sooy Jeffries R-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- 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
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- Michael Joseph Kennedy D-NY
- James Herbert Fay D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Pius Louis Schwert D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-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
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson 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
- Michael Joseph Bradley 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
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Joseph A. Mcardle D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns Jr. 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
- 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
- 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
- Patrick Henry Drewry 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
- 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
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- Andrew Charles Schiffler R-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
- Frank Ogilvie Horton R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- Thomas Raymond Ball R-CT
- Albert Elmer Austin R-CT
- Boleslaus Joseph Monkiewicz R-CT
- George Short Williams R-DE
- Stephen Pace 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
- 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
- Leslie Cornelius Arends 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
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-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
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- John Grant Alexander R-MN
- Oscar Ferdinand Youngdahl R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- George Henry Heinke R-NE
- 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
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Albert Lincoln Vreeland R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY
- Wallace Edgar Pierce 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
- Joseph John O'Brien R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- John Francis Harter 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
- James Gould Polk D-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
- Chester Castle 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
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI
- Harry Sandager R-RI
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Stephen Bolles R-WI
- Charles Hawks Jr. R-WI
- Harry Wilbur Griswold R-WI
- John Charles Schafer R-WI
- Lewis Dominic Thill R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Joshua Leroy Johns R-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
Voted present
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- James Martin Barnes D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- John Cunningham Martin D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
Did not vote
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Zadoc Lorenzo Weatherford D-AL
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- William Evans Burney D-CO
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Florence Reville Gibbs D-GA
- Robert Kingman Goodwin R-IA
- David Jenkins Ward D-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hyde Sweet R-NE
- Morris Michael Edelstein D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- Clara Gooding Mcmillan D-SC
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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Capitol Receipts, “To pass H.R. 4852- interior dept…: House Vote, Mar 20, 1939,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/76-H-25/to-pass-h-r-4852-interior-dept-appropriation-bill (accessed 2026-10-16).