House roll call 30 · 76th Congress · Mar 31, 1939
To pass H.J. RES. 246, a bill making additional appropriation for work relief for fiscal year ending june 30, 1939.
On Mar 31, 1939, the House voted 292–110 (HJR 246). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 223–22, Republicans 70–93, Others 4–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 92 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
- 292
- No
- 110
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Mar 31, 1939
By party
- Democrats223 yes · 22 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Republicans70 yes · 93 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Others4 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR voted no
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA voted yes
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA voted yes
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA voted yes
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA voted yes
- Thomas Marion Eaton R-CA voted yes
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- Willis Benjamin Gibbs D-GA voted no
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA voted yes
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA voted yes
- Jessie Sumner R-IL voted yes
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN voted yes
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN voted yes
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN voted yes
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS voted yes
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS voted yes
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted yes
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA voted yes
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA voted yes
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted yes
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME voted yes
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME voted yes
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME voted yes
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI voted yes
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI voted yes
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted yes
- John Grant Alexander R-MN voted yes
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN voted yes
- Oscar Ferdinand Youngdahl R-MN voted yes
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted yes
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN voted yes
- Wall Doxey D-MS voted no
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS voted no
- Jacob Thorkelson R-MT voted yes
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC voted no
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted yes
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted no
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- Walter Sooy Jeffries R-NJ voted yes
- David Lane Powers R-NJ voted yes
- Frank Crowther R-NY voted yes
- John Francis Harter R-NY voted yes
- James Seccombe R-OH voted yes
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH voted yes
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH voted yes
- George Harrison Bender R-OH voted yes
- Lycurgus Luther Marshall 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
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA voted yes
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA voted yes
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA voted yes
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted yes
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA voted yes
- Harve Tibbott R-PA voted yes
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA voted yes
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA voted yes
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI voted yes
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD voted yes
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD voted yes
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN voted yes
- James Willis Taylor R-TN voted yes
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX voted no
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX voted no
- Milton Horace West D-TX voted no
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX voted no
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA voted no
And 12 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Edward Thomas Taylor 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
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White 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
- Anton Frank Maciejewski D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- James Martin Barnes 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
- John Cunningham Martin D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- 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
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- 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
- 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
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- 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
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy 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
- Carl Edgar Mapes 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
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- John Grant Alexander R-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Oscar Ferdinand Youngdahl R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- 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
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee 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
- Alonzo Dillard Folger D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Walter Sooy Jeffries R-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-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
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- John Francis Harter R-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt 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
- James Seccombe R-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
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Lycurgus Luther Marshall R-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
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-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
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI
- Thomas Sanders 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
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns Jr. 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
- 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
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- George Herman Mahon 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
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum 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
- Stephen Bolles 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
- 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
How each representative voted: No
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Leland Merritt Ford R-CA
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- Thomas Raymond Ball R-CT
- Albert Elmer Austin R-CT
- George Short Williams R-DE
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace 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
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- 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
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- William Howard Wheat R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes 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
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- George Henry Heinke R-NE
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Foster Waterman Stearns R-NH
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean 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
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller 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
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews 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
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer 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
- Harry Sandager R-RI
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Charles Hawks Jr. R-WI
- Frank Ogilvie Horton R-WY
Voted present
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Boleslaus Joseph Monkiewicz R-CT
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- 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
- Thomas Vernor Smith D-IL
- 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
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Pius Louis Schwert D-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
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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