House roll call 18 · 69th Congress · Feb 15, 1926
To suspend rules and pass H. R. 6559 (44 stat 630, 5/25/26), a bill providing for the construction of certain public buildings, as amended. (p.4041-1)
On Feb 15, 1926, the House voted 263–120 (HR 6559). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 200–24, Democrats 74–101, Others 3–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 98 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
- 263
- No
- 120
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Feb 15, 1926
By party
- Democrats74 yes · 101 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans200 yes · 24 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- William Joshua Driver D-AR voted yes
- Heartsill Ragon D-AR voted yes
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR voted yes
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ voted yes
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted yes
- Philip David Swing R-CA voted no
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO voted yes
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL voted yes
- John Harris Smithwick D-FL voted yes
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA voted no
- William Dayton Boies R-IA voted no
- Thomas Aloysius Doyle D-IL voted yes
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted yes
- Stanley Henry Kunz D-IL voted yes
- William Wright Arnold D-IL voted yes
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN voted yes
- Frank Gardner D-IN voted yes
- Harry Clifford Canfield D-IN voted yes
- Chauncey Bundy Little D-KS voted yes
- James George Strong R-KS voted no
- Hays Baxter White R-KS voted no
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS voted yes
- Alben William Barkley D-KY voted yes
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY voted yes
- James O'Connor D-LA voted yes
- James Zacharie Spearing D-LA voted yes
- John Nicholas Sandlin D-LA voted yes
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA voted yes
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA voted yes
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA voted yes
- John Joseph Douglass D-MA voted yes
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA voted yes
- Allen John Furlow R-MN voted no
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted no
- Samuel Collier Major D-MO voted yes
- Harry Bartow Hawes D-MO voted yes
- Joe Jonathan Manlove R-MO voted no
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO voted yes
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted yes
- James William Collier D-MS voted yes
- John Morgan Evans D-MT voted yes
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted yes
- Charles Laban Abernethy D-NC voted yes
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC voted yes
- Homer Le Grand Lyon D-NC voted yes
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC voted yes
- Willis Gratz Sears R-NE voted no
- Edgar Howard D-NE voted yes
- 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
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY voted yes
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY voted yes
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY voted yes
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted yes
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY voted yes
- Frank Oliver D-NY voted yes
- Parker Corning D-NY voted yes
- Meyer Jacobstein D-NY voted yes
- James Michael Mead D-NY voted yes
- Charles James Thompson R-OH voted no
- John Charles Speaks R-OH voted no
- John Mcsweeney D-OH voted yes
- Charles Anthony Mooney D-OH voted yes
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted yes
- Samuel James Montgomery R-OK voted no
- Milton Cline Garber R-OK voted no
- Jeremiah Edward O'Connell D-RI voted yes
- William Francis Stevenson D-SC voted yes
- James Willis Taylor R-TN voted no
- Hubert Frederick Fisher D-TN voted yes
And 18 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- Heartsill Ragon D-AR
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Florence Prag Kahn R-CA
- Henry Ellsworth Barbour R-CA
- Arthur Monroe Free 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
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Robert Griffith Houston R-DE
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL
- John Harris Smithwick D-FL
- William Frederick Kopp R-IA
- Fred Dickinson Letts R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- Cyrenus Cole R-IA
- Christian William Ramseyer R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- Lester Jesse Dickinson R-IA
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- Morton Denison Hull R-IL
- Elliott Wilford Sproul R-IL
- Thomas Aloysius Doyle D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- John Jerome Gorman R-IL
- Magne Alfred Michaelson R-IL
- Stanley Henry Kunz D-IL
- Carl Richard Chindblom R-IL
- Frank R. Reid R-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- William Richard Johnson R-IL
- John Clayton Allen R-IL
- Edward John King R-IL
- Frank Hamilton Funk R-IL
- William Perry Holaday R-IL
- Charles Adkins R-IL
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL
- Edward Michael Irwin R-IL
- William Wright Arnold D-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- Henry Riggs Rathbone 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
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Chauncey Bundy Little D-KS
- William Henry Sproul R-KS
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY
- Maurice Hudson Thatcher R-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- James O'Connor D-LA
- James Zacharie Spearing D-LA
- John Nicholas Sandlin D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro 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
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Harry Irving Thayer R-MA
- Charles Lee Underhill R-MA
- John Joseph Douglass D-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- Louis Adams Frothingham 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
- Carroll Lynwood Beedy R-ME
- Wallace Humphrey White Jr. R-ME
- John Edward Nelson R-ME
- Ira Greenlief Hersey R-ME
- 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
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- Frank Clague R-MN
- Oscar Edward Keller R-MN
- Walter Hughes Newton R-MN
- William Leighton Carss O-MN
- Knud Wefald O-MN
- Godfrey Gummer Goodwin R-MN
- Charles Lee Faust R-MO
- Edgar Clarence Ellis R-MO
- Samuel Collier Major D-MO
- Cleveland Alexander Newton R-MO
- Harry Bartow Hawes D-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Charles Edward Kiefner R-MO
- Ralph Emerson Bailey R-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- Scott Leavitt R-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Charles Laban Abernethy D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Homer Le Grand Lyon D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Olger Burton Burtness R-ND
- Thomas Hall R-ND
- Edgar Howard D-NE
- Fletcher Hale R-NH
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- Francis Ford Patterson Jr. R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Stewart Hoffman Appleby R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Ernest Robinson Ackerman R-NJ
- Randolph Perkins R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Herbert Worthington Taylor 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
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- Ogden Livingston Mills 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
- Parker Corning D-NY
- James Southworth Parker 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
- John Taber 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
- Ambrose Everett Burnside Stephens R-OH
- Roy Gerald Fitzgerald R-OH
- William Thomas Fitzgerald R-OH
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Charles Brand R-OH
- William Wallace Chalmers R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins 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
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- Harry Clay Ransley R-PA
- Benjamin Martin Golder R-PA
- James Joseph Connolly 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
- George Franklin Brumm 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
- Anderson Howell Walters R-PA
- Jacob Banks Kurtz R-PA
- Franklin Menges R-PA
- Samuel Austin Kendall R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr. R-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Harris Jacob Bixler 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
- John Mary Morin 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
- William Francis Stevenson D-SC
- Charles Andrew Christopherson R-SD
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- William Williamson R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Hubert Frederick Fisher D-TN
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Harry McLeary Wurzbach R-TX
- Claude Benton Hudspeth D-TX
- Elmer O. Leatherwood R-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Joseph Whitehead D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Robert Walton Moore D-VA
- Elbert Sidney Brigham R-VT
- John Franklin Miller R-WA
- Lindley Hoag Hadley R-WA
- Edward Voigt R-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- Florian Lampert R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Carl George Bachmann R-WV
- Frank Llewellyn Bowman R-WV
- John Marshall Wolverton R-WV
- James French Strother 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 Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Newton Tillman D-AR
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- James Byron Reed D-AR
- Philip David Swing R-CA
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- William Joseph Sears 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
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William Chester Lankford D-GA
- William Washington Larsen D-GA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- William Dayton Boies R-IA
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- James George Strong R-KS
- Hays Baxter White R-KS
- John William Moore D-KY
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- Whitmell Pugh Martin D-LA
- Bolivar Edwards Kemp D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Millard Evelyn Tydings D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- Allen John Furlow R-MN
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Ole Juulson Kvale O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Ralph Fulton Lozier D-MO
- Jacob Le Roy Milligan D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Joe Jonathan Manlove R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Bill Green Lowrey D-MS
- Thomas Jefferson Busby D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- Thomas Webber Wilson D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- William Cicero Hammer D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- John Henry Morehead D-NE
- Willis Gratz Sears R-NE
- Melvin Orlando Mclaughlin R-NE
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE
- Robert Glenmore Simmons R-NE
- Oscar Louis Auf Der Heide D-NJ
- John Morrow D-NM
- Charles James Thompson R-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- Mell Gilbert Underwood D-OH
- John Charles Speaks R-OH
- Samuel James Montgomery R-OK
- 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
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Frederick Haskell Dominick D-SC
- John Jackson Mcswain D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- 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
- Eugene Black D-TX
- John Calvin Box D-TX
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Clay Stone Briggs D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Guinn Williams D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Don Byron Colton R-UT
- Joseph Thomas Deal D-VA
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- George Campbell Peery D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- John William Summers R-WA
- Samuel Billingsley Hill D-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- John Charles Schafer R-WI
- Victor Luitpold Berger O-WI
- Joseph David Beck R-WI
- George John Schneider R-WI
- Hubert Haskell Peavey R-WI
Voted present
- John Donnan Fredericks R-CA
- Thomas John Bright Robinson R-IA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- James Herbert Sinclair R-ND
- Anning Smith Prall D-NY
- Nathan David Perlman R-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Royal Hurlburt Weller D-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Gale Hamilton Stalker R-NY
- Martin Luther Davey D-OH
- William Irvin Swoope R-PA
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Ernest Willard Gibson R-VT
Did not vote
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Lawrence James Flaherty R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Walter Franklin Lineberger R-CA
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- William Edgar Hull R-IL
- Richard Yates R-IL
- Homer Hoch R-KS
- Jasper Napoleon Tincher R-KS
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- Andrew Jackson Kirk R-KY
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. R-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- William Francis James R-MI
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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Capitol Receipts, “To suspend rules and pass H. R. 6559 (44…: House Vote, Feb 15, 1926,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/69-H-18/to-suspend-rules-and-pass-h-r-6559-44 (accessed 2026-10-17).