House roll call 91 · 71st Congress · Feb 24, 1931
To agree to H.J. RES. 292, proposing an amendment to the constitution of the U.S., which amendment makes it mandatory for Congress to assemble at least once in
On Feb 24, 1931, the House voted 230–148 (HJR 292). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 174–60, Democrats 56–87, Others 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 116 members voted against their own party.
During the 71st Congress (1929–1930), Herbert Hoover was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 230
- No
- 148
- Did not vote
- 78
- Date
- Feb 24, 1931
By party
- Democrats56 yes · 87 no · 33 didn’t vote
- Republicans174 yes · 60 no · 44 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Mcduffie D-AL voted yes
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL voted yes
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR voted yes
- Heartsill Ragon D-AR voted yes
- David Delano Glover D-AR voted yes
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR voted yes
- Lewis Williams Douglas D-AZ voted yes
- Henry Ellsworth Barbour R-CA voted no
- Joe Crail R-CA voted no
- Philip David Swing R-CA voted no
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT voted no
- Robert Griffith Houston R-DE voted no
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL voted yes
- Ruth Bryan Owen D-FL voted yes
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted yes
- William Carter Wright D-GA voted yes
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted yes
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA voted yes
- Thomas John Bright Robinson R-IA voted no
- Christian William Ramseyer R-IA voted no
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA voted no
- Charles Edward Swanson R-IA voted no
- Morton Denison Hull R-IL voted no
- John Clayton Allen R-IL voted no
- James Whitson Dunbar R-IN voted no
- Harry Clifford Canfield D-IN voted yes
- Andrew James Hickey R-IN voted no
- John Lloyd Dorsey Jr. D-KY voted yes
- John Durrett Craddock R-KY voted no
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA voted yes
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD voted yes
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD voted yes
- Frederick Nicholas Zihlman R-MD voted no
- Donald Francis Snow R-ME voted no
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI voted no
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI voted no
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI voted no
- William Francis James R-MI voted no
- Victor Laurence August Christgau R-MN voted no
- Frank Clague R-MN voted no
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN voted no
- William Ignatius Nolan R-MN voted no
- Conrad George Selvig R-MN voted no
- John William Palmer R-MO voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Busby D-MS voted yes
- James William Collier D-MS voted yes
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC voted yes
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted yes
- Edward William Pou D-NC voted yes
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC voted yes
- Hinton James D-NC voted yes
- Olger Burton Burtness R-ND voted no
- Thomas Hall R-ND voted no
- James Herbert Sinclair R-ND voted no
- Robert Glenmore Simmons R-NE voted no
- Ernest Robinson Ackerman R-NJ voted no
- Oscar Louis Auf Der Heide D-NJ voted yes
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted yes
- George Washington Lindsay D-NY voted yes
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY voted yes
- Patrick J. Carley 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
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia R-NY voted no
- Frank Oliver D-NY voted yes
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY voted yes
- Parker Corning D-NY voted yes
- James Southworth Parker R-NY voted no
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY voted no
- Edmund Francis Cooke R-NY voted no
- James Michael Mead D-NY voted yes
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH voted no
- John Charles Speaks R-OH voted no
- Charles Ellis Moore R-OH voted no
- Charles Anthony Mooney D-OH voted yes
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK voted yes
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK voted yes
- Thomas Deitz Mckeown D-OK voted yes
And 36 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- John Mcduffie D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- Heartsill Ragon D-AR
- David Delano Glover D-AR
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR
- Lewis Williams Douglas D-AZ
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Arthur Monroe Free R-CA
- William Elmer Evans R-CA
- William Robb Eaton R-CO
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Guy Urban Hardy R-CO
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- Edward Wheeler Goss R-CT
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Ruth Bryan Owen D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- William Carter Wright D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA
- William Frederick Kopp R-IA
- Fred Dickinson Letts R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- Cyrenus Cole R-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Lester Jesse Dickinson R-IA
- Ed Hoyt Campbell R-IA
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Oscar Stanton De Priest R-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- Carl Richard Chindblom R-IL
- William Richard Johnson R-IL
- Burnett Mitchell Chiperfield R-IL
- William Edgar Hull R-IL
- Homer William Hall R-IL
- William Perry Holaday R-IL
- Charles Adkins R-IL
- Frank Marion Ramey R-IL
- Edward Michael Irwin R-IL
- Ruth Hanna Mccormick R-IL
- Harry Clifford Canfield D-IN
- Richard Nash Elliott 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
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- William Henry Sproul R-KS
- Homer Hoch R-KS
- Charles Isaac Sparks R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- John Lloyd Dorsey Jr. D-KY
- Maurice Hudson Thatcher R-KY
- Robert E. Lee Blackburn R-KY
- Lewis Leavell Walker R-KY
- Elva Roscoe Kendall R-KY
- Katherine Gudger Langley R-KY
- Charles Finley R-KY
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Frank Herbert Foss 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
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Carroll Lynwood Beedy R-ME
- Wallace Humphrey White Jr. R-ME
- John Edward Nelson R-ME
- Robert Henry Clancy R-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Joseph Lawrence Hooper R-MI
- John Clark Ketcham R-MI
- Grant Martin Hudson R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- Bird J. Vincent R-MI
- Frank Probasco Bohn R-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Godfrey Gummer Goodwin R-MN
- David William Hopkins R-MO
- Edgar Clarence Ellis R-MO
- Thomas Jefferson Halsey R-MO
- Henry Frederick Niedringhaus R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Joe Jonathan Manlove R-MO
- Thomas Jefferson Busby D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- Scott Leavitt R-MT
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Hinton James D-NC
- Charles Andrew Jonas R-NC
- Willis Gratz Sears R-NE
- Charles Henry Sloan R-NE
- Fred Gustus Johnson R-NE
- Fletcher Hale R-NH
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Randolph Perkins R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Franklin William Fort R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- Oscar Louis Auf Der Heide D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Albert Gallatin Simms R-NM
- Samuel Shaw (Ulysses) Arentz R-NV
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- George Washington Lindsay D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Patrick J. Carley D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- Ruth Sears Baker Pratt R-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Frank Oliver D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Harcourt Joseph Pratt R-NY
- Parker Corning D-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Frederick Morgan Davenport R-NY
- John Davenport Clarke R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Gale Hamilton Stalker R-NY
- James Lucius Whitley R-NY
- Archie Dovell Sanders R-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Roy Gerald Fitzgerald R-OH
- John Levi Cable R-OH
- Charles Brand R-OH
- Grant Earl Mouser Jr. R-OH
- William Wallace Chalmers R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Joseph Edward Baird R-OH
- Francis Seiberling R-OH
- Charles Blaine Mcclintock R-OH
- William Mitchell Morgan R-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Murphy R-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Charles Anthony Mooney D-OH
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- Charles O'Connor R-OK
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Thomas Deitz Mckeown D-OK
- Robert Reyburn Butler R-OR
- Franklin Frederick Korell R-OR
- James Montgomery Beck R-PA
- Harry Clay Ransley R-PA
- James Joseph Connolly R-PA
- George Austin Welsh R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- Laurence Hawley Watres R-PA
- Charles Murray Turpin R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Edward McMath Beers R-PA
- Isaac Hoffer Doutrich R-PA
- James Russell Leech R-PA
- Franklin Menges R-PA
- Jesse Howard Swick R-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Thomas Cunningham Cochran R-PA
- William Radford Coyle R-PA
- Patrick Joseph Sullivan R-PA
- Harry Allison Estep R-PA
- Guy Edgar Campbell R-PA
- Clark Burdick R-RI
- Richard Steere Aldrich R-RI
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Charles Andrew Christopherson R-SD
- William Williamson R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Ewin Lamar Davis D-TN
- Gordon Weaver Browning D-TN
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Oliver Harlan Cross D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Don Byron Colton R-UT
- Frederick Charles Loofbourow R-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Menalcus Lankford R-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Joseph Crockett Shaffer R-VA
- Elbert Sidney Brigham R-VT
- Ernest Willard Gibson R-VT
- Lindley Hoag Hadley R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- John William Summers R-WA
- Charles August Kading R-WI
- John Charles Schafer R-WI
- Frank Llewellyn Bowman R-WV
- John Marshall Wolverton R-WV
- Robert Lynn Hogg R-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
- Vincent Michael Carter R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Lamar Jeffers D-AL
- LaFayette Lee Patterson D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- George Huddleston D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- Pearl Peden Oldfield D-AR
- Effiegene Locke Wingo D-AR
- Henry Ellsworth Barbour R-CA
- Joe Crail R-CA
- Philip David Swing R-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- Robert Griffith Houston R-DE
- Thomas Alva Yon D-FL
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Samuel Rutherford D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William Chester Lankford D-GA
- Thomas John Bright Robinson R-IA
- Christian William Ramseyer R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Charles Edward Swanson R-IA
- Morton Denison Hull R-IL
- John Clayton Allen R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- William Wright Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- James Whitson Dunbar R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Andrew James Hickey R-IN
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS
- William Voris Gregory D-KY
- John William Moore D-KY
- John Durrett Craddock R-KY
- Numa Francois Montet D-LA
- John Nicholas Sandlin D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- William Joseph Granfield D-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- Frederick Nicholas Zihlman R-MD
- Donald Francis Snow R-ME
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- William Francis James R-MI
- Victor Laurence August Christgau R-MN
- Frank Clague R-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- William Ignatius Nolan R-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- Conrad George Selvig R-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Ralph Fulton Lozier D-MO
- Jacob Le Roy Milligan D-MO
- John William Palmer R-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- Charles Laban Abernethy D-NC
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Olger Burton Burtness R-ND
- Thomas Hall R-ND
- James Herbert Sinclair R-ND
- John Henry Morehead D-NE
- Edgar Howard D-NE
- Robert Glenmore Simmons R-NE
- Ernest Robinson Ackerman R-NJ
- William Frank Brunner D-NY
- Loring Milton Black Jr. D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Anning Smith Prall D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia R-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY
- Edmund Francis Cooke R-NY
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Mell Gilbert Underwood D-OH
- John Charles Speaks R-OH
- Charles Ellis Moore R-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Ulysses Stevens Stone R-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Milton Cline Garber R-OK
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- George Franklin Brumm R-PA
- Charles Joseph Esterly R-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Frederick William Magrady R-PA
- Jacob Banks Kurtz R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Adam Martin Wyant R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- Francis Bernard Condon D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Frederick Haskell Dominick D-SC
- John Jackson Mcswain D-SC
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Edward Everett Eslick D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Hubert Frederick Fisher D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- John Calvin Box D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Clay Stone Briggs D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Robert Walton Moore D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- John Franklin Miller R-WA
- Samuel Billingsley Hill D-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- George John Schneider R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Hubert Haskell Peavey R-WI
- Hugh Ike Shott R-WV
Did not vote
- Miles Clayton Allgood D-AL
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Florence Prag Kahn R-CA
- Edward Hart Fenn R-CT
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL
- Leslie Jasper Steele D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- William Washington Larsen D-GA
- Elliott Wilford Sproul R-IL
- Thomas Aloysius Doyle D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- James Thomas Igoe D-IL
- Magne Alfred Michaelson R-IL
- Stanley Henry Kunz D-IL
- Frank R. Reid R-IL
- John Theodore Buckbee R-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- Richard Yates R-IL
- Harry Emerson Rowbottom R-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- James George Strong R-KS
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY
- Judson Lincoln Newhall R-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- James O'Connor D-LA
- James Zacharie Spearing D-LA
- Bolivar Edwards Kemp D-LA
- William Kirk Kaynor R-MA
- John Joseph Douglass D-MA
- Linwood Leon Clark R-MD
- Walter Hughes Newton R-MN
- Ole Juulson Kvale O-MN
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Charles Edward Kiefner R-MO
- Rowland Louis Johnston R-MO
- Robert Samuel Hall D-MS
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- William Cicero Hammer D-NC
- George Moore Pritchard R-NC
- Harold Giles Hoffman R-NJ
- John Francis Quayle D-NY
- David Joseph O'Connell D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Charles James Thompson R-OH
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- Benjamin Martin Golder R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- James Mitchell Chase R-PA
- Samuel Austin Kendall R-PA
- Milton William Shreve R-PA
- Edmund Frederick Erk R-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- Jeremiah Edward O'Connell D-RI
- William Francis Stevenson D-SC
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- Guinn Williams D-TX
- Augustus Mccloskey D-TX
- Harry McLeary Wurzbach R-TX
- Claude Benton Hudspeth D-TX
- Robert Quincy Lee D-TX
- Elmer O. Leatherwood R-UT
- Joseph Whitehead D-VA
- Jacob Aaron Garber R-VA
- Florian Lampert R-WI
- Carl George Bachmann R-WV
- James Anthony Hughes R-WV
Other votes
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