House roll call 105 · 69th Congress · Mar 2, 1927
To suspend rules and pass H. R. 17378, a bill for apportionment of representatives in Congress.
On Mar 2, 1927, the House voted 183–197 (HR 17378). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 154–60, Democrats 31–137, Others 2–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 91 members voted against their own party.
During the 69th Congress (1925–1926), Calvin Coolidge was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 183
- No
- 197
- Did not vote
- 23
- Date
- Mar 2, 1927
By party
- Democrats31 yes · 137 no · 2 didn’t vote
- Republicans154 yes · 60 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ voted yes
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted yes
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO voted yes
- Robert Griffith Houston R-DE voted no
- William Joseph Sears D-FL voted yes
- William Frederick Kopp R-IA voted no
- Fred Dickinson Letts R-IA voted no
- Thomas John Bright Robinson R-IA voted no
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA voted no
- Cyrenus Cole R-IA voted no
- Christian William Ramseyer R-IA voted no
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA voted no
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA voted no
- William Raymond Green R-IA voted no
- Lester Jesse Dickinson R-IA voted no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted yes
- Stanley Henry Kunz D-IL voted yes
- William Richard Johnson R-IL voted no
- William Perry Holaday R-IL voted no
- Charles Adkins R-IL voted no
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL voted yes
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL voted no
- Henry Riggs Rathbone R-IL voted no
- Richard Yates R-IL voted no
- Harry Emerson Rowbottom R-IN voted no
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN voted no
- Richard Nash Elliott R-IN voted no
- Ralph Eugene Updike R-IN voted no
- Albert Henry Vestal R-IN voted no
- Fred Sampson Purnell R-IN voted no
- William Robert Wood R-IN voted no
- Albert Richardson Hall R-IN voted no
- David Hogg R-IN voted no
- Andrew James Hickey R-IN voted no
- William Henry Sproul R-KS voted no
- James George Strong R-KS voted no
- Hays Baxter White R-KS voted no
- Maurice Hudson Thatcher R-KY voted no
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY voted no
- Frank Herbert Foss R-MA voted no
- Carroll Lynwood Beedy R-ME voted no
- Wallace Humphrey White Jr. R-ME voted no
- John Edward Nelson R-ME voted no
- Ira Greenlief Hersey R-ME voted no
- Frank Clague R-MN voted no
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted no
- Ralph Emerson Bailey R-MO voted no
- Joe Jonathan Manlove R-MO voted no
- John Morgan Evans D-MT voted yes
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC voted yes
- Charles Laban Abernethy D-NC voted yes
- Edward William Pou D-NC voted yes
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC voted yes
- Homer Le Grand Lyon D-NC voted yes
- William Cicero Hammer D-NC voted yes
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted yes
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC voted yes
- Olger Burton Burtness R-ND voted no
- Thomas Hall R-ND voted no
- James Herbert Sinclair R-ND voted no
- Willis Gratz Sears R-NE voted no
- Melvin Orlando Mclaughlin R-NE voted no
- Robert Glenmore Simmons R-NE voted no
- Fletcher Hale R-NH voted no
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH voted no
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted yes
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY voted yes
- Frank Oliver D-NY voted yes
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- Meyer Jacobstein D-NY voted yes
- Charles Brand R-OH voted no
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH voted yes
- Mell Gilbert Underwood D-OH voted yes
- John Mcsweeney D-OH voted yes
- Charles Anthony Mooney D-OH voted yes
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted yes
- Milton Cline Garber R-OK voted no
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA voted no
- Milton William Shreve R-PA voted no
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA voted no
And 11 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Florence Prag Kahn R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Henry Ellsworth Barbour R-CA
- Arthur Monroe Free R-CA
- Walter Franklin Lineberger R-CA
- Philip David Swing R-CA
- William Newell Vaile R-CO
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Guy Urban Hardy R-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Edward Hart Fenn R-CT
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- William Dayton Boies R-IA
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- Morton Denison Hull R-IL
- Elliott Wilford Sproul R-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Magne Alfred Michaelson R-IL
- Stanley Henry Kunz D-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- Carl Richard Chindblom R-IL
- Frank R. Reid R-IL
- John Clayton Allen R-IL
- William Edgar Hull R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- Homer Hoch R-KS
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- George Russell Stobbs R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. R-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- Charles Lee Underhill R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill R-MD
- Frederick Nicholas Zihlman R-MD
- John Bartholomew Sosnowski R-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Joseph Lawrence Hooper R-MI
- John Clark Ketcham R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Grant Martin Hudson R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- Bird J. Vincent R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frank Douglas Scott R-MI
- William Francis James R-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- Allen John Furlow R-MN
- Oscar Edward Keller R-MN
- Walter Hughes Newton R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Ole Juulson Kvale O-MN
- Godfrey Gummer Goodwin R-MN
- Edgar Clarence Ellis R-MO
- Cleveland Alexander Newton R-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- Scott Leavitt R-MT
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- Charles Laban Abernethy D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Homer Le Grand Lyon D-NC
- William Cicero Hammer D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Francis Ford Patterson Jr. R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Ernest Robinson Ackerman R-NJ
- Randolph Perkins R-NJ
- Franklin William Fort R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- Samuel Shaw (Ulysses) Arentz R-NV
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- Nathan David Perlman R-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia O-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Frank Oliver D-NY
- Benjamin Lewis Fairchild R-NY
- Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Harcourt Joseph Pratt R-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Thaddeus C. Sweet R-NY
- Frederick Morgan Davenport R-NY
- Harold Sumner Tolley R-NY
- Walter Warren Magee R-NY
- Gale Hamilton Stalker R-NY
- Meyer Jacobstein D-NY
- Archie Dovell Sanders R-NY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY
- Clarence Macgregor R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Roy Gerald Fitzgerald R-OH
- William Thomas Fitzgerald R-OH
- Charles James Thompson R-OH
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- William Wallace Chalmers R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Mell Gilbert Underwood D-OH
- John Charles Speaks R-OH
- James Thomas Begg R-OH
- Charles Ellis Moore R-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- William Mitchell Morgan R-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Murphy R-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Charles Anthony Mooney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- Maurice Edgar Crumpacker R-OR
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- Harry Clay Ransley R-PA
- Benjamin Martin Golder R-PA
- George Austin Welsh R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- Laurence Hawley Watres R-PA
- Edmund Nelson Carpenter R-PA
- Charles Joseph Esterly R-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Frederick William Magrady R-PA
- Edward McMath Beers R-PA
- Joshua William Swartz R-PA
- Jacob Banks Kurtz R-PA
- Franklin Menges R-PA
- Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr. R-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- William Radford Coyle R-PA
- Adam Martin Wyant R-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- James McDevitt Magee R-PA
- Guy Edgar Campbell R-PA
- Clark Burdick R-RI
- Richard Steere Aldrich R-RI
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Eugene Black D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Clay Stone Briggs D-TX
- Harry McLeary Wurzbach R-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Don Byron Colton R-UT
- Elmer O. Leatherwood R-UT
- John Franklin Miller R-WA
- Lindley Hoag Hadley R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- John William Summers R-WA
- Samuel Billingsley Hill D-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Edward Voigt R-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- John Charles Schafer R-WI
- Florian Lampert R-WI
- Joseph David Beck R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- George John Schneider R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Hubert Haskell Peavey R-WI
- Frank Llewellyn Bowman R-WV
- James Alfred Taylor D-WV
- Charles Edwin Winter R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- John Mcduffie D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Lamar Jeffers D-AL
- William Bismarck Bowling D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- Miles Clayton Allgood D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- George Huddleston D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Newton Tillman D-AR
- Heartsill Ragon D-AR
- James Byron Reed D-AR
- Robert Griffith Houston R-DE
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- John Harris Smithwick D-FL
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Carter Wright D-GA
- William David Upshaw D-GA
- Samuel Rutherford D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William Chester Lankford D-GA
- William Washington Larsen D-GA
- William Frederick Kopp R-IA
- Fred Dickinson Letts R-IA
- Thomas John Bright Robinson R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- Cyrenus Cole R-IA
- Christian William Ramseyer R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- Lester Jesse Dickinson R-IA
- Thomas Aloysius Doyle D-IL
- William Richard Johnson R-IL
- William Perry Holaday R-IL
- Charles Adkins R-IL
- William Wright Arnold D-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- Henry Riggs Rathbone R-IL
- Richard Yates R-IL
- Harry Emerson Rowbottom R-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- Frank Gardner D-IN
- Harry Clifford Canfield D-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Richard Nash Elliott R-IN
- Ralph Eugene Updike R-IN
- Albert Henry Vestal R-IN
- Fred Sampson Purnell R-IN
- William Robert Wood R-IN
- Albert Richardson Hall R-IN
- David Hogg R-IN
- Andrew James Hickey R-IN
- Chauncey Bundy Little D-KS
- William Henry Sproul R-KS
- James George Strong R-KS
- Hays Baxter White R-KS
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY
- John William Moore D-KY
- Maurice Hudson Thatcher R-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- James O'Connor D-LA
- James Zacharie Spearing D-LA
- Whitmell Pugh Martin D-LA
- John Nicholas Sandlin D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- Bolivar Edwards Kemp D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Frank Herbert Foss R-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- John Joseph Douglass D-MA
- Millard Evelyn Tydings D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- Carroll Lynwood Beedy R-ME
- Wallace Humphrey White Jr. R-ME
- John Edward Nelson R-ME
- Ira Greenlief Hersey R-ME
- Frank Clague R-MN
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- William Leighton Carss O-MN
- Knud Wefald O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Ralph Fulton Lozier D-MO
- Jacob Le Roy Milligan D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Samuel Collier Major D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Ralph Emerson Bailey R-MO
- Joe Jonathan Manlove R-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Bill Green Lowrey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Jefferson Busby D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- Thomas Webber Wilson D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Olger Burton Burtness R-ND
- Thomas Hall R-ND
- James Herbert Sinclair R-ND
- John Henry Morehead D-NE
- Willis Gratz Sears R-NE
- Edgar Howard D-NE
- Melvin Orlando Mclaughlin R-NE
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE
- Robert Glenmore Simmons R-NE
- Fletcher Hale R-NH
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- Oscar Louis Auf Der Heide D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- John Morrow D-NM
- John Joseph Kindred D-NY
- George Washington Lindsay D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Loring Milton Black Jr. D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- David Joseph O'Connell D-NY
- Anning Smith Prall D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Royal Hurlburt Weller D-NY
- Parker Corning D-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Charles Brand R-OH
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Thomas Deitz Mckeown D-OK
- Fletcher B. Swank D-OK
- John William Elmer Thomas D-OK
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- Milton Cline Garber R-OK
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Milton William Shreve R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- Jeremiah Edward O'Connell D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Frederick Haskell Dominick D-SC
- John Jackson Mcswain D-SC
- William Francis Stevenson D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Charles Andrew Christopherson R-SD
- William Williamson R-SD
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- Ewin Lamar Davis D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Edward Everett Eslick D-TN
- Gordon Weaver Browning D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- Hubert Frederick Fisher D-TN
- John Calvin Box D-TX
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Guinn Williams D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Claude Benton Hudspeth D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Joseph Thomas Deal D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Joseph Whitehead D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- Robert Walton Moore D-VA
- George Campbell Peery D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- Elbert Sidney Brigham R-VT
- Ernest Willard Gibson R-VT
- Carl George Bachmann R-WV
Voted present
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Edward John King R-IL
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- Louis Adams Frothingham R-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Charles Lee Faust R-MO
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- John Francis Quayle D-NY
- William Edward Cleary D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Ogden Livingston Mills R-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Martin Luther Davey D-OH
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- James Joseph Connolly R-PA
- Samuel Austin Kendall R-PA
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Victor Luitpold Berger O-WI
- John Marshall Wolverton R-WV
- James French Strother R-WV
Did not vote
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Lawrence James Flaherty R-CA
- John Donnan Fredericks R-CA
- John Jerome Gorman R-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- Frank Hamilton Funk R-IL
- Edward Michael Irwin R-IL
- Jasper Napoleon Tincher R-KS
- Andrew Jackson Kirk R-KY
- Henry Leland Bowles R-MA
- Harry Irving Thayer R-MA
- Harry Bartow Hawes D-MO
- Charles Edward Kiefner R-MO
- Stewart Hoffman Appleby R-NJ
- Herbert Worthington Taylor R-NJ
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Ambrose Everett Burnside Stephens R-OH
- Samuel James Montgomery R-OK
- George Franklin Brumm R-PA
- Anderson Howell Walters R-PA
- William Irvin Swoope R-PA
- Harris Jacob Bixler R-PA
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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