House roll call 107 · 69th Congress · Mar 3, 1927
To suspend rules and pass S. 5314, a bill amending act of february 28, 1925, reclassifying the salaries of postmasters.
On Mar 3, 1927, the House voted 197–150 (S 5314). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 164–27, Democrats 35–123, Others 2–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 62 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
- 197
- No
- 150
- Did not vote
- 59
- Date
- Mar 3, 1927
By party
- Democrats35 yes · 123 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Republicans164 yes · 27 no · 43 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 2 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William David Upshaw D-GA voted yes
- William Washington Larsen D-GA voted yes
- William Frederick Kopp R-IA voted no
- Fred Dickinson Letts R-IA voted no
- Thomas John Bright Robinson R-IA voted no
- Cyrenus Cole R-IA voted no
- Christian William Ramseyer 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
- Homer Hoch R-KS voted no
- James George Strong R-KS voted no
- Hays Baxter White R-KS voted no
- James O'Connor D-LA voted yes
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. R-MA voted no
- Charles Lee Underhill R-MA voted no
- John Joseph Douglass D-MA voted yes
- Millard Evelyn Tydings D-MD voted yes
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD voted yes
- Oscar Edward Keller R-MN voted no
- Olger Burton Burtness R-ND voted no
- Melvin Orlando Mclaughlin R-NE voted no
- Robert Glenmore Simmons R-NE voted no
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted yes
- John Joseph Kindred D-NY voted yes
- George Washington Lindsay D-NY voted yes
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY voted yes
- Loring Milton Black Jr. D-NY voted yes
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY voted yes
- John Francis Quayle D-NY voted yes
- William Edward Cleary D-NY voted yes
- David Joseph O'Connell D-NY voted yes
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted yes
- Anning Smith Prall D-NY voted yes
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY voted yes
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY voted yes
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY voted yes
- John Francis Carew D-NY voted yes
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted yes
- Royal Hurlburt Weller D-NY voted yes
- Frank Oliver D-NY voted yes
- Parker Corning D-NY voted yes
- Frederick Morgan Davenport R-NY voted no
- Meyer Jacobstein D-NY voted yes
- James Michael Mead D-NY voted yes
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH voted no
- John Charles Speaks R-OH voted no
- James Thomas Begg R-OH voted no
- Charles Anthony Mooney D-OH voted yes
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted yes
- Jacob Banks Kurtz R-PA voted no
- Harris Jacob Bixler R-PA voted no
- Jeremiah Edward O'Connell D-RI voted yes
- Charles Andrew Christopherson R-SD voted no
- William Williamson R-SD voted no
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX voted yes
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX voted yes
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX voted yes
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI voted no
- Joseph David Beck R-WI voted no
- Carl George Bachmann R-WV voted no
- Frank Llewellyn Bowman R-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Florence Prag Kahn R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch 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 Hart Fenn R-CT
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- Robert Griffith Houston R-DE
- William David Upshaw D-GA
- William Washington Larsen D-GA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- William Raymond Green 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
- William Edgar Hull R-IL
- Charles Adkins R-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- Henry Riggs Rathbone R-IL
- Harry Emerson Rowbottom R-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
- Albert Richardson Hall R-IN
- David Hogg R-IN
- Andrew James Hickey R-IN
- Jasper Napoleon Tincher R-KS
- Maurice Hudson Thatcher R-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- James O'Connor D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Henry Leland Bowles R-MA
- Frank Herbert Foss R-MA
- George Russell Stobbs R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- John Joseph Douglass D-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Millard Evelyn Tydings D-MD
- John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill R-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Wallace Humphrey White Jr. R-ME
- John Edward Nelson R-ME
- Ira Greenlief Hersey R-ME
- 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
- Frank Clague R-MN
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Walter Hughes Newton R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Godfrey Gummer Goodwin R-MN
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Charles Edward Kiefner R-MO
- Ralph Emerson Bailey R-MO
- Joe Jonathan Manlove R-MO
- Scott Leavitt R-MT
- Thomas Hall R-ND
- James Herbert Sinclair R-ND
- Willis Gratz Sears R-NE
- Fletcher Hale R-NH
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- 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
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Samuel Shaw (Ulysses) Arentz R-NV
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- 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
- John Francis Quayle D-NY
- William Edward Cleary D-NY
- David Joseph O'Connell D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Anning Smith Prall D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Nathan David Perlman R-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia O-NY
- Royal Hurlburt Weller 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
- Parker Corning D-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Thaddeus C. Sweet R-NY
- Harold Sumner Tolley R-NY
- Walter Warren Magee R-NY
- John Taber 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
- James Michael Mead D-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
- Charles Brand R-OH
- William Wallace Chalmers R-OH
- Charles Ellis Moore R-OH
- William Mitchell Morgan R-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Murphy R-OH
- Charles Anthony Mooney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- George Scott Graham 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
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Frederick William Magrady R-PA
- Edward McMath Beers R-PA
- Joshua William Swartz R-PA
- Franklin Menges R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Milton William Shreve R-PA
- William Radford Coyle R-PA
- Adam Martin Wyant R-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- James McDevitt Magee R-PA
- Guy Edgar Campbell R-PA
- Clark Burdick R-RI
- Richard Steere Aldrich R-RI
- Jeremiah Edward O'Connell D-RI
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Harry McLeary Wurzbach R-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- Don Byron Colton R-UT
- Elmer O. Leatherwood R-UT
- Elbert Sidney Brigham R-VT
- Ernest Willard Gibson R-VT
- John Franklin Miller R-WA
- Lindley Hoag Hadley R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- John William Summers R-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- John Charles Schafer R-WI
- Victor Luitpold Berger O-WI
- Florian Lampert R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- George John Schneider R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
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
- Heartsill Ragon D-AR
- James Byron Reed D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- William Carter Wright D-GA
- Samuel Rutherford D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William Chester Lankford D-GA
- William Frederick Kopp R-IA
- Fred Dickinson Letts R-IA
- Thomas John Bright Robinson R-IA
- Cyrenus Cole R-IA
- Christian William Ramseyer R-IA
- Lester Jesse Dickinson R-IA
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- William Wright Arnold D-IL
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- Frank Gardner D-IN
- Harry Clifford Canfield D-IN
- Chauncey Bundy Little D-KS
- Homer Hoch 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
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- 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
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. R-MA
- Charles Lee Underhill R-MA
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- Oscar Edward Keller R-MN
- Ole Juulson Kvale O-MN
- William Leighton Carss O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Ralph Fulton Lozier 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
- 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 Morgan Evans D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr 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
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Olger Burton Burtness R-ND
- John Henry Morehead D-NE
- Edgar Howard D-NE
- Melvin Orlando Mclaughlin R-NE
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE
- Robert Glenmore Simmons R-NE
- John Morrow D-NM
- Frederick Morgan Davenport R-NY
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Mell Gilbert Underwood D-OH
- John Charles Speaks R-OH
- James Thomas Begg R-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-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
- Jacob Banks Kurtz R-PA
- Harris Jacob Bixler R-PA
- 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
- 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
- Eugene Black D-TX
- John Calvin Box D-TX
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Clay Stone Briggs 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
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Claude Benton Hudspeth D-TX
- John Marvin Jones 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
- Samuel Billingsley Hill D-WA
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- Joseph David Beck R-WI
- Carl George Bachmann R-WV
- Frank Llewellyn Bowman R-WV
- James Alfred Taylor D-WV
Voted present
- John Newton Tillman D-AR
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Thomas Aloysius Doyle D-IL
- Edward John King R-IL
- Richard Yates R-IL
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- James Zacharie Spearing D-LA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Frederick Nicholas Zihlman R-MD
- John Bartholomew Sosnowski R-MI
- Jacob Le Roy Milligan D-MO
- Charles Lee Faust R-MO
- Cleveland Alexander Newton R-MO
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- Oscar Louis Auf Der Heide D-NJ
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- James Joseph Connolly R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Edward Voigt R-WI
- Hubert Haskell Peavey R-WI
- John Marshall Wolverton R-WV
Did not vote
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Lawrence James Flaherty R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Donnan Fredericks R-CA
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- John Harris Smithwick D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- William Dayton Boies R-IA
- John Jerome Gorman R-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- William Richard Johnson R-IL
- John Clayton Allen R-IL
- Frank Hamilton Funk R-IL
- William Perry Holaday R-IL
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL
- Edward Michael Irwin R-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- William Robert Wood R-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- William Henry Sproul R-KS
- Andrew Jackson Kirk R-KY
- Harry Irving Thayer R-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- Louis Adams Frothingham R-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Carroll Lynwood Beedy R-ME
- Knud Wefald O-MN
- Edgar Clarence Ellis R-MO
- Harry Bartow Hawes D-MO
- Stewart Hoffman Appleby R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Herbert Worthington Taylor R-NJ
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Ogden Livingston Mills R-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Ambrose Everett Burnside Stephens R-OH
- Martin Luther Davey D-OH
- Samuel James Montgomery R-OK
- Milton Cline Garber R-OK
- Maurice Edgar Crumpacker R-OR
- George Franklin Brumm R-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Anderson Howell Walters R-PA
- William Irvin Swoope R-PA
- Samuel Austin Kendall R-PA
- Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr. R-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Guinn Williams D-TX
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
- James French Strother R-WV
- Charles Edwin Winter R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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