House roll call 58 · 76th Congress · Jun 13, 1939
To amend S. 1796- bill to amend the tennessee valley authority act of 1933, by limiting the authority and powers of the t.v.a. In a number of ways. Among other
On Jun 13, 1939, the House voted 192–167 (S 1796). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 50–170, Republicans 158–7, Others 0–4. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 57 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
- 192
- No
- 167
- Did not vote
- 32
- Date
- Jun 13, 1939
By party
- Democrats50 yes · 170 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Republicans158 yes · 7 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 4 no
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted yes
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted no
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA voted no
- John Martin Costello D-CA voted yes
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted yes
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted yes
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA voted yes
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL voted yes
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL voted yes
- James Mcandrews D-IL voted yes
- James Martin Barnes 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
- John Cunningham Martin D-IL voted yes
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN voted yes
- John Mills Houston D-KS voted yes
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY voted yes
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted yes
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD voted yes
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD voted yes
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME voted no
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN voted yes
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO voted yes
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted yes
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC voted yes
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC voted yes
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- William Lemke R-ND voted no
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE voted yes
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted yes
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ voted yes
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM voted yes
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted yes
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH voted yes
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted yes
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK voted yes
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA voted yes
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC voted yes
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN voted no
- James Willis Taylor R-TN voted no
- Nat Patton D-TX voted yes
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX voted yes
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX voted yes
- Milton Horace West D-TX voted yes
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX voted yes
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA voted yes
- Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. D-VA voted yes
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA voted yes
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA voted yes
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA voted yes
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA voted yes
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted yes
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA voted yes
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV voted yes
- George William Johnson D-WV voted yes
- John Kee D-WV voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Leland Merritt Ford R-CA
- Thomas Marion Eaton R-CA
- 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
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- 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
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- William Howard Wheat R-IL
- James Martin Barnes D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- John Cunningham Martin D-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
- John William Boehne Jr. D-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
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May 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
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney 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
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-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
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Jacob Thorkelson R-MT
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- George Henry Heinke R-NE
- 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
- 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
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Wallace Edgar Pierce R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Fred James Douglas 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
- 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
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- James Seccombe R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Lycurgus Luther Marshall R-OH
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Fred Christian Gartner R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-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
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- Harry Sandager R-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- 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
- Andrew Charles Schiffler R-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Frank Ogilvie Horton R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- 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
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- Lee Edward Geyer D-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
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Stephen Pace 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
- Paul Brown D-GA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman 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
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- David Jenkins Ward D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- William Devereux Byron D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman 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
- 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
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan 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
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds 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
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson 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
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
Voted present
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Anton Frank Maciejewski D-IL
- Thomas Vernor Smith D-IL
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Francis John Myers D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Joseph A. Mcardle D-PA
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Did not vote
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Zadoc Lorenzo Weatherford D-AL
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- William Evans Burney D-CO
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Florence Reville Gibbs D-GA
- Robert Kingman Goodwin R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough 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
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Bert Lord 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
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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