House roll call 128 · 66th Congress · Nov 17, 1919
To agree to the amendment of H.R. 10453, (41 stat 456, 2-28-20), a bill providing for the termination of federal control of railroads and systems of transportat
On Nov 17, 1919, the House voted 253–111 (HR 10453). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 131–67, Democrats 119–44, Others 3–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 111 members voted against their own party.
During the 66th Congress (1919–1920), Woodrow Wilson was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 253
- No
- 111
- Did not vote
- 89
- Date
- Nov 17, 1919
By party
- Democrats119 yes · 44 no · 39 didn’t vote
- Republicans131 yes · 67 no · 50 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- John Mcduffie D-AL voted no
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL voted no
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL voted no
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL voted no
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL voted no
- Henry Zenas Osborne R-CA voted no
- William Newell Vaile R-CO voted no
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO voted no
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT voted no
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT voted no
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT voted no
- James Peter Glynn R-CT voted no
- Frank Clark D-FL voted no
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA voted no
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA voted no
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA voted no
- William Raymond Green R-IA voted no
- Burton Lee French R-ID voted no
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL voted no
- James Robert Mann R-IL voted no
- Ira Clifton Copley R-IL voted no
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted no
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL voted no
- Richard Yates R-IL voted no
- Richard Nash Elliott R-IN voted no
- Fred Sampson Purnell R-IN voted no
- William Robert Wood R-IN voted no
- Homer Hoch R-KS voted no
- Alben William Barkley D-KY voted no
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA voted no
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA voted no
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA voted no
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA voted no
- Willfred Weymouth Lufkin R-MA voted no
- Robert Luce R-MA voted no
- Richard Olney D-MA voted no
- Carville Dickinson Benson D-MD voted no
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD voted no
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD voted no
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI voted no
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI voted no
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI voted no
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI voted no
- Walter Hughes Newton R-MN voted no
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN voted no
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN voted no
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO voted no
- Isaac Vanbert Mcpherson R-MO voted no
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS voted no
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS voted no
- John Humphrey Small D-NC voted no
- Claude Kitchin D-NC voted no
- Leonidas Dunlap Robinson D-NC voted no
- Robert Emory Evans R-NE voted no
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH voted no
- William John Browning R-NJ voted no
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ voted no
- Elijah Cubberley Hutchinson R-NJ voted no
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ voted no
- Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY voted no
- Frederick William Rowe R-NY voted no
- James William Husted R-NY voted no
- Edmund Platt R-NY voted no
- Rollin Brewster Sanford R-NY voted no
- James Southworth Parker R-NY voted no
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY voted no
- Homer Peter Snyder R-NY voted no
- Norman Judd Gould R-NY voted no
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH voted no
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH voted no
- Clifton Nesmith Mcarthur R-OR voted no
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA voted no
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA voted no
- William Walton Griest R-PA voted no
- John Reber R-PA voted no
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA voted no
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA voted no
- Evan John Jones R-PA voted no
- Henry Joseph Steele D-PA voted no
- Thomas Spencer Crago R-PA voted no
And 31 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- Lilius Bratton Rainey D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- George Huddleston D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Newton Tillman D-AR
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- William Shields Goodwin D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- Henry Ellsworth Barbour R-CA
- Hugh Steel Hersman D-CA
- Charles Hiram Randall O-CA
- Guy Urban Hardy R-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT
- Caleb Rodney Layton R-DE
- John Harris Smithwick D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- James Whetstone Overstreet D-GA
- Frank Park D-GA
- James Walter Wise D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William Chester Lankford D-GA
- William Washington Larsen D-GA
- Harry Edward Hull R-IA
- Burton Erwin Sweet R-IA
- Christian William Ramseyer R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Horace Mann Towner R-IA
- Lester Jesse Dickinson R-IA
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- William Warfield Wilson R-IL
- John William Rainey D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Carl Richard Chindblom R-IL
- William Johnson Graham R-IL
- Edward John King R-IL
- Clifford Cady Ireland R-IL
- Frank Leslie Smith R-IL
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- Edwin Bruce Brooks R-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- Oscar Raymond Luhring R-IN
- Oscar Edward Bland R-IN
- James Whitson Dunbar R-IN
- Everett Sanders R-IN
- Albert Henry Vestal R-IN
- Milton Kraus R-IN
- Andrew James Hickey R-IN
- Edward Campbell Little R-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- James George Strong R-KS
- Hays Baxter White R-KS
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Charles Franklin Ogden R-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- William Jason Fields D-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- James O'Connor D-LA
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- Whitmell Pugh Martin D-LA
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- Jared Young Sanders D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- Alvan Tufts Fuller R-MA
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Frederick Nicholas Zihlman R-MD
- Wallace Humphrey White Jr. R-ME
- Ira Greenlief Hersey R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- John M. C. Smith R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes 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
- Oscar Edward Keller O-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- William Leighton Carss O-MN
- Thomas David Schall R-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- William Thomas Bland D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- Cleveland Alexander Newton R-MO
- William Leo Igoe D-MO
- Edward Dixon Hays R-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- William Webb Venable D-MS
- Paul Burney Johnson D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- John Miller Baer R-ND
- George Morley Young R-ND
- Albert Webb Jefferis R-NE
- Melvin Orlando Mclaughlin R-NE
- William Ezekiel Andrews R-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- John Rathbone Ramsey R-NJ
- Amos Henry Radcliffe R-NJ
- Cornelius Augustine Mcglennon D-NJ
- Daniel Francis Minahan D-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- Benigno Cárdenas Hernández R-NM
- Charles Robley Evans D-NV
- Charles Pope Caldwell D-NY
- John Maccrate R-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- John Brown Johnston D-NY
- James Paul Maher D-NY
- William Edward Cleary D-NY
- David Joseph O'Connell D-NY
- Reuben Locke Haskell R-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Henry Mayer Goldfogle D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia R-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- Thomas Francis Smith D-NY
- Herbert Claiborne Pell Jr. D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Joseph Rowan D-NY
- Isaac Siegel R-NY
- Jerome Francis Donovan D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Richard Francis Mckiniry D-NY
- James Vincent Ganly D-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- William Henry Hill R-NY
- Walter Warren Magee R-NY
- Alanson Bigelow Houghton R-NY
- Archie Dovell Sanders R-NY
- Clarence Macgregor R-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Ambrose Everett Burnside Stephens R-OH
- Warren Gard D-OH
- Charles James Thompson R-OH
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Raymond Clinton Cole R-OH
- Israel Moore Foster R-OH
- Edwin Darlington Ricketts R-OH
- James Thomas Begg R-OH
- Martin Luther Davey D-OH
- Charles Ellis Moore R-OH
- Roscoe Conkling Mcculloch R-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Murphy R-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Charles Anthony Mooney D-OH
- John Joseph Babka D-OH
- Henry Ivory Emerson R-OH
- Everette Burgess Howard D-OK
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- John William Harreld R-OK
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- Peter Edward Costello R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- Patrick Mclane D-PA
- John Joseph Casey D-PA
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- John Marshall Rose R-PA
- Edward Schroeder Brooks R-PA
- John Haden Wilson D-PA
- Samuel Austin Kendall R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Willis James Hulings R-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Guy Edgar Campbell D-PA
- Anderson Howell Walters R-PA
- Mahlon Morris Garland R-PA
- William Joseph Burke R-PA
- Clark Burdick R-RI
- Ambrose Kennedy 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
- Edward Coke Mann D-SC
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- Hubert Frederick Fisher D-TN
- John Calvin Box D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Clay Stone Briggs D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Carlos Bee D-TX
- Claude Benton Hudspeth D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- James Henry Mays D-UT
- John Franklin Miller R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- John William Summers R-WA
- Clifford Ellsworth Randall R-WI
- Edward Voigt R-WI
- James Gideon Monahan R-WI
- John Casimir Kleczka R-WI
- Florian Lampert R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- David Guy Classon R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Adolphus Peter Nelson R-WI
- George Meade Bowers R-WV
- Stuart Felix Reed R-WV
- Wells Goodykoontz R-WV
- Leonard Sidney Echols R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Mcduffie D-AL
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- Henry Zenas Osborne R-CA
- William Newell Vaile R-CO
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Frank Clark D-FL
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- Ira Clifton Copley R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Richard Yates R-IL
- Richard Nash Elliott R-IN
- Fred Sampson Purnell R-IN
- William Robert Wood R-IN
- Homer Hoch R-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- 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
- Robert Luce R-MA
- Richard Olney D-MA
- Carville Dickinson Benson D-MD
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- Walter Hughes Newton R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- Isaac Vanbert Mcpherson R-MO
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- Leonidas Dunlap Robinson D-NC
- Robert Emory Evans R-NE
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- William John Browning R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Elijah Cubberley Hutchinson R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY
- Frederick William Rowe R-NY
- James William Husted R-NY
- Edmund Platt R-NY
- Rollin Brewster Sanford R-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Homer Peter Snyder R-NY
- Norman Judd Gould R-NY
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- Clifton Nesmith Mcarthur R-OR
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- John Reber R-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Evan John Jones R-PA
- Henry Joseph Steele D-PA
- Thomas Spencer Crago R-PA
- Walter Russell Stiness R-RI
- Charles Andrew Christopherson R-SD
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- Ewin Lamar Davis D-TN
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- Eugene Black D-TX
- James Young D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Lucian Walton Parrish D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- Milton Holmes Welling D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- James Pleasant Woods D-VA
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- Robert Walton Moore D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- Frank Lester Greene R-VT
- Porter Hinman Dale R-VT
- Lindley Hoag Hadley R-WA
- John Stanley Webster R-WA
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
Did not vote
- William Bismarck Bowling D-AL
- Henderson Madison Jacoway D-AR
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- John Arthur Elston R-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL
- William Carter Wright D-GA
- William David Upshaw D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- William Dayton Boies R-IA
- Niels Juul R-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL
- William Brown Mckinley R-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- John Samuel Benham R-IN
- Merrill Moores R-IN
- Louis William Fairfield R-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Jasper Napoleon Tincher R-KS
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- King Swope R-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- John Francis Fitzgerald D-MA
- Joseph Walsh R-MA
- William Noble Andrews R-MD
- Louis Bertrand Goodall R-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Gilbert Archibald Currie R-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Jacob Le Roy Milligan D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- Samuel Collier Major D-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Marion Edwards Rhodes R-MO
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS
- Carl Wood Riddick R-MT
- Samuel Mitchell Brinson D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Clyde Roark Hoey D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- James Herbert Sinclair R-ND
- Charles Frank Reavis R-NE
- Sherman Everett Burroughs R-NH
- Francis Ford Patterson Jr. R-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- Ernest Robinson Ackerman R-NJ
- Lester David Volk R-NY
- Nathan David Perlman R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Charles Bonnell Ward R-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY
- Benjamin Franklin Welty D-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Thomas Deitz Mckeown D-OK
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- Charles Swindall R-OK
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- Harry Clay Ransley R-PA
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- Arthur Granville Dewalt D-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- Milton William Shreve R-PA
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC
- Philip Henry Stoll D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Harry Luther Gandy D-SD
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- James Clifton Wilson D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Rorer Abraham James D-VA
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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