House roll call 155 · 65th Congress · May 23, 1918
To pass bill H. R. 11945. (p. 6980)
On May 23, 1918, the House voted 232–64 (HR 11945). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 123–36, Republicans 107–28, Others 3–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 64 members voted against their own party.
During the 65th Congress (1917–1918), Woodrow Wilson was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 232
- No
- 64
- Did not vote
- 158
- Date
- May 23, 1918
By party
- Democrats123 yes · 36 no · 67 didn’t vote
- Republicans107 yes · 28 no · 88 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 0 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted no
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA voted no
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT voted no
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT voted no
- John William Rainey D-IL voted no
- James Mcandrews D-IL voted no
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL voted no
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL voted no
- Joseph Medill Mccormick R-IL voted no
- Merrill Moores R-IN voted no
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY voted no
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA voted no
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA voted no
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA voted no
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA voted no
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA voted no
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD voted no
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD voted no
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD voted no
- Jacob Edwin Meeker R-MO voted no
- William Leo Igoe D-MO voted no
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO voted no
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ voted no
- John Rathbone Ramsey R-NJ voted no
- Edward Winthrop Gray R-NJ voted no
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ voted no
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ voted no
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ voted no
- Harry Howard Dale D-NY voted no
- James Paul Maher D-NY voted no
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY voted no
- William Edward Cleary D-NY voted no
- Oscar William Swift R-NY voted no
- Reuben Locke Haskell R-NY voted no
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY voted no
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY voted no
- Thomas Francis Smith D-NY voted no
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY voted no
- John Francis Carew D-NY voted no
- George Blinn Francis R-NY voted no
- Jerome Francis Donovan D-NY voted no
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY voted no
- Daniel Charles Oliver D-NY voted no
- Benjamin Lewis Fairchild R-NY voted no
- Charles Bonnell Ward R-NY voted no
- Homer Peter Snyder R-NY voted no
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY voted no
- William Frederick Waldow R-NY voted no
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH voted no
- Clifton Nesmith Mcarthur R-OR voted no
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA voted no
- Arthur Granville Dewalt D-PA voted no
- Henry Joseph Steele D-PA voted no
- John Mary Morin R-PA voted no
- Mahlon Morris Garland R-PA voted no
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI voted no
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI voted no
- Finis James Garrett D-TN voted no
- James Clifton Wilson D-TX voted no
- John Nance Garner D-TX voted no
- Atkins Jefferson Mclemore D-TX voted no
- Edward Voigt R-WI voted no
- William Joseph Cary R-WI voted no
- William Henry Stafford R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Oscar Lee Gray D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- George Huddleston D-AL
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Newton Tillman D-AR
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR
- William Shields Goodwin D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- John Arthur Elston R-CA
- Charles Hiram Randall O-CA
- Henry Zenas Osborne R-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Edward Keating D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL
- James Whetstone Overstreet D-GA
- Frank Park D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John Randall Walker D-GA
- William Washington Larsen D-GA
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Burton Erwin Sweet R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- Christian William Ramseyer R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Horace Mann Towner R-IA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- George Cromwell Scott R-IA
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- William Warfield Wilson R-IL
- George Edmund Foss R-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- William Johnson Graham R-IL
- Edward John King R-IL
- John Allen Sterling R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- George Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Oscar Edward Bland R-IN
- William Elijah Cox D-IN
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN
- Everett Sanders R-IN
- Richard Nash Elliott R-IN
- Albert Henry Vestal R-IN
- Fred Sampson Purnell R-IN
- William Robert Wood R-IN
- Milton Kraus R-IN
- Louis William Fairfield R-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS
- Guy Tresillian Helvering D-KS
- John Robert Connelly D-KS
- Jouett Shouse D-KS
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA
- Willfred Weymouth Lufkin R-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- Richard Olney D-MA
- Joseph Walsh R-MA
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Louis Bertrand Goodall R-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Ira Greenlief Hersey R-ME
- Samuel Willard Beakes D-MI
- John M. C. Smith R-MI
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Frank Douglas Scott R-MI
- William Francis James R-MI
- Charles Archibald Nichols R-MI
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- Franklin Fowler Ellsworth R-MN
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Carl Chester Van Dyke D-MN
- Ernest Lundeen R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- Thomas David Schall O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- William Patterson Borland D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO
- Joseph James Russell D-MO
- Perl D. Decker D-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- Jeannette Rankin R-MT
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Leonidas Dunlap Robinson D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- John Miller Baer R-ND
- George Morley Young R-ND
- Patrick Daniel Norton R-ND
- Charles Frank Reavis R-NE
- Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- William John Browning R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Elijah Cubberley Hutchinson R-NJ
- William Bell Walton D-NM
- Edwin Ewing Roberts R-NV
- Meyer London O-NY
- James William Husted R-NY
- Edmund Platt R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- Walter Warren Magee R-NY
- Harry Hayt Pratt R-NY
- Archie Dovell Sanders R-NY
- Charles Mann Hamilton R-NY
- Benjamin Franklin Welty D-OH
- John Stout Snook D-OH
- John Alexander Key D-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH
- Horatio Clifford Claypool D-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- Arthur Warren Overmyer D-OH
- George White D-OH
- Roscoe Conkling Mcculloch R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- David Adams Hollingsworth R-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Henry Ivory Emerson R-OH
- Thomas Alberter Chandler R-OK
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- Thomas Deitz Mckeown D-OK
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Edward Everett Robbins R-PA
- Walter Russell Stiness R-RI
- Richard Smith Whaley D-SC
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC
- Frederick Haskell Dominick D-SC
- Samuel Jones Nicholls D-SC
- William Francis Stevenson D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Harry Luther Gandy D-SD
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- William Cannon Houston D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- Hubert Frederick Fisher D-TN
- Eugene Black D-TX
- James Young D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- Milton Holmes Welling D-UT
- James Henry Mays D-UT
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- Porter Hinman Dale R-VT
- William Leroy La Follette R-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Stuart Felix Reed R-WV
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
- Edward Cooper R-WV
- Adam Brown Littlepage D-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- John William Rainey D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- Joseph Medill Mccormick R-IL
- Merrill Moores R-IN
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Jacob Edwin Meeker R-MO
- William Leo Igoe D-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- John Rathbone Ramsey R-NJ
- Edward Winthrop Gray R-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- Harry Howard Dale D-NY
- James Paul Maher D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- William Edward Cleary D-NY
- Oscar William Swift R-NY
- Reuben Locke Haskell R-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Thomas Francis Smith D-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- George Blinn Francis R-NY
- Jerome Francis Donovan D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Daniel Charles Oliver D-NY
- Benjamin Lewis Fairchild R-NY
- Charles Bonnell Ward R-NY
- Homer Peter Snyder R-NY
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY
- William Frederick Waldow R-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Clifton Nesmith Mcarthur R-OR
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- Arthur Granville Dewalt D-PA
- Henry Joseph Steele D-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Mahlon Morris Garland R-PA
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- James Clifton Wilson D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Atkins Jefferson Mclemore D-TX
- Edward Voigt R-WI
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
Did not vote
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Henderson Madison Jacoway D-AR
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- Benjamin Clark Hilliard D-CO
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT
- Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- Albert Fawcett Polk D-DE
- Frank Clark D-FL
- James Walter Kehoe D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- William Carter Wright D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- William Schley Howard D-GA
- James Walter Wise D-GA
- Harry Edward Hull R-IA
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- Charles Martin D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Niels Juul R-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- Ira Clifton Copley R-IL
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL
- Clifford Cady Ireland R-IL
- William Brown Mckinley R-IL
- Martin David Foster D-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- Daniel Webster Comstock R-IN
- Edward Campbell Little R-KS
- William Jason Fields D-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Caleb Powers R-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- Whitmell Pugh Martin O-LA
- Jared Young Sanders D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- Alvan Tufts Fuller O-MA
- William Henry Carter R-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Jesse Dashiell Price D-MD
- Carville Dickinson Benson D-MD
- Frederick Nicholas Zihlman R-MD
- Wallace Humphrey White Jr. R-ME
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI
- Mark Reeves Bacon R-MI
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- Gilbert Archibald Currie R-MI
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- Frederick Essen R-MO
- Walter Lewis Hensley D-MO
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- William Webb Venable D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- George Ezekial Hood D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- James Jefferson Britt R-NC
- Henry Thomas Helgesen R-ND
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE
- Charles Henry Sloan R-NE
- Sherman Everett Burroughs R-NH
- John Henry Capstick R-NJ
- William Fred Birch R-NJ
- Dow Henry Drukker R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY
- Charles Pope Caldwell D-NY
- Joseph Vincent Flynn D-NY
- Frederick William Rowe R-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Griffin D-NY
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia R-NY
- Walter Marion Chandler R-NY
- Isaac Siegel R-NY
- George Murray Hulbert D-NY
- Henry Bruckner D-NY
- Rollin Brewster Sanford R-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- George Richard Lunn D-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- Norman Judd Gould R-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY
- Victor Heintz R-OH
- Warren Gard D-OH
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- Elsworth Raymond Bathrick D-OH
- Martin Luther Davey D-OH
- William Gordon D-OH
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- Peter Edward Costello R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- Thomas Weir Templeton R-PA
- Robert Douglas Heaton R-PA
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- John Marshall Rose R-PA
- Andrew R. Brodbeck D-PA
- Charles Hedding Rowland R-PA
- Bruce Foster Sterling D-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Henry Alden Clark R-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Earl Hanley Beshlin D-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly O-PA
- Guy Edgar Campbell D-PA
- John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott R-PA
- Joseph Mclaughlin R-PA
- Thomas Spencer Crago R-PA
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC
- Charles Hall Dillon R-SD
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- Martin Dies D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- James Pleasant Woods D-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- Frank Lester Greene R-VT
- John Franklin Miller R-WA
- Lindley Hoag Hadley R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- Clarence Cleveland Dill D-WA
- Florian Lampert R-WI
- James Henry Davidson R-WI
- David Guy Classon R-WI
- Adolphus Peter Nelson R-WI
- Irvine Luther Lenroot R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- George Meade Bowers R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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Capitol Receipts, “To pass bill H. R. 11945. (p. 6980): House Vote, May 23, 1918,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/65-H-155/to-pass-bill-h-r-11945-p-6980 (accessed 2026-10-17).