House roll call 70 · 76th Congress · Jun 30, 1939
To amend H.J. RES. 306, neutrality act of 1939, by prohibiting the export of arms from the U.S. To any of the belligerents named when, under section 1(a) of TH
On Jun 30, 1939, the House voted 214–173 (HJR 306). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 62–174, Republicans 158–8, Others 3–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 70 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
- 214
- No
- 173
- Did not vote
- 29
- Date
- Jun 30, 1939
By party
- Democrats62 yes · 174 no · 19 didn’t vote
- Republicans158 yes · 8 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ voted yes
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted yes
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA voted yes
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA voted yes
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA voted yes
- John Martin Costello D-CA voted yes
- Thomas Raymond Ball R-CT voted no
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID voted yes
- Anton Frank Maciejewski D-IL voted yes
- Frank William Fries D-IL voted yes
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL voted yes
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN voted yes
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted yes
- John Mills Houston D-KS voted yes
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted yes
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY voted yes
- Brent Spence D-KY voted yes
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted yes
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA voted yes
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted yes
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA voted yes
- John Keller Griffith D-LA voted yes
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted yes
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA voted yes
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD voted yes
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD voted yes
- Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz D-MI voted yes
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted yes
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN voted yes
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN voted no
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO voted yes
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted yes
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT voted yes
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted yes
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE voted yes
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted yes
- Foster Waterman Stearns R-NH voted no
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ voted yes
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted no
- William Bernard Barry D-NY voted yes
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY voted yes
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY voted yes
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY voted yes
- Bruce Barton R-NY voted no
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY voted yes
- William Sterling Cole R-NY voted no
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY voted no
- Pius Louis Schwert D-NY voted yes
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY voted yes
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted yes
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH voted yes
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted yes
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted yes
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH voted yes
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted yes
- John Conover Nichols D-OK voted yes
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK voted yes
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK voted yes
- John Harold Flannery D-PA voted yes
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA voted yes
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted yes
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA voted yes
- Knute Hill D-WA voted yes
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA voted yes
- George William Johnson D-WV voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Harry Lane Englebright R-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
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Leland Merritt Ford R-CA
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- Albert Elmer Austin R-CT
- Boleslaus Joseph Monkiewicz R-CT
- George Short Williams R-DE
- 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
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Anton Frank Maciejewski 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
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- 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
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-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
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- 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
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-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
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- John Grant Alexander R-MN
- Oscar Ferdinand Youngdahl R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Jacob Thorkelson R-MT
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- 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
- 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
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-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
- Wallace Edgar Pierce R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Joseph John O'Brien R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- John Francis Harter R-NY
- Pius Louis Schwert D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-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
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- James Seccombe R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-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
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale 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
- John Harold Flannery D-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
- Francis Eugene Walter D-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
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI
- Harry Sandager R-RI
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy 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
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- Andrew Charles Schiffler R-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- Frank Ogilvie Horton R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- 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
- 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
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Frank Henry Buck 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
- Thomas Raymond Ball R-CT
- 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
- 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
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- James Martin Barnes D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- John Cunningham Martin D-IL
- Thomas Vernor Smith D-IL
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- David Jenkins Ward D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden 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
- Foster Waterman Stearns R-NH
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney 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
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson 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
- Francis John Myers D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland 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
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- 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
- 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
- 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
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
Voted present
- Thomas Marion Eaton R-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- William Devereux Byron D-MD
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Alonzo Dillard Folger D-NC
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
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
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Florence Reville Gibbs D-GA
- Robert Kingman Goodwin R-IA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- 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
Other votes
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