House roll call 79 · 74th Congress · Jul 15, 1935
To amend H.R. 7591 (p.a. 244), a bill granting the consent of Congress to the cities of donara and monessen, pa., to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge a
On Jul 15, 1935, the House voted 27–260 (HR 7591). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 21–183, Republicans 1–75, Others 5–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 22 members voted against their own party.
During the 74th Congress (1935–1936), Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 27
- No
- 260
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Jul 15, 1935
By party
- Democrats21 yes · 183 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Republicans1 yes · 75 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others5 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Charles Kramer D-CA voted yes
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA voted yes
- John Martin Costello D-CA voted yes
- Charles J. Colden D-CA voted yes
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID voted yes
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN voted yes
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA voted yes
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH voted yes
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH voted yes
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted yes
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH voted yes
- Charles Vilas Truax D-OH voted yes
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH voted yes
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR voted yes
- Theodore Leo Moritz D-PA voted yes
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA voted yes
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD voted yes
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX voted yes
- Marion Anthony Zioncheck D-WA voted yes
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA voted yes
- Knute Hill D-WA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Ernest Lundeen O-MN
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Charles Vilas Truax D-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Theodore Leo Moritz D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Marion Anthony Zioncheck D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- George John Schneider O-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Archibald Hill Carmichael D-AL
- George Huddleston D-AL
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Isabella Selmes Greenway D-AZ
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Florence Prag Kahn R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- John Henry Hoeppel D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Bryant Thomas Castellow D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Bernhard Martin Jacobsen D-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- John Theodore Buckbee R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Jackson Leroy Adair D-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Harry Howland Mason D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- William Wright Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Martin Adlai Brennan D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- William Randolph Carpenter D-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- William Voris Gregory D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Richard Manning Russell D-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Theodore Christianson R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- James Robert Claiborne D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Joseph Patrick Monaghan D-MT
- Roy Elmer Ayers D-MT
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- William Nathaniel Rogers D-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Randolph Perkins R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Richard Joseph Tonry D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio R-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- William David Thomas R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Frederick James Sisson D-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- James Patrick Duffy D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Leroy Tate Marshall R-OH
- Warren Joseph Duffey D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- William Louis Fiesinger D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Joshua Bryan Lee D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- William Alexander Ekwall R-OR
- William Henry Wilson R-PA
- Clare Gerald Fenerty R-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- Charles Murray Turpin R-PA
- William Emanuel Richardson D-PA
- Charles Elmer Dietrich D-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Denis Joseph Driscoll D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Joshua Twing Brooks D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Theodore B. Werner D-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Wesley Lloyd D-WA
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Gerald John Boileau O-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
Voted present
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Samuel LaFort Collins R-CA
- George Burnham R-CA
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- William Lincoln Higgins R-CT
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- Hubert Utterback D-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Donald Claude Dobbins D-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Glover H. Cary D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Numa Francois Montet D-LA
- John Nicholas Sandlin D-LA
- Jared Young Sanders Jr. D-LA
- Cleveland Dear D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- William Joseph Granfield D-MA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. R-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Simon Moulton Hamlin D-ME
- Edward Carleton Moran Jr. D-ME
- Henry Mahlon Kimball R-MI
- Prentiss Marsh Brown D-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Aubert Culberson Dunn D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Angelo Cavicchia R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- William Frank Brunner D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Stephen Andrew Rudd D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Parker Corning D-NY
- Bert Lord R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- John Baker Hollister R-OH
- Mell Gilbert Underwood D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Percy Lee Gassaway D-OK
- Harry Clay Ransley R-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Isaac Hoffer Doutrich R-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- William Markle Berlin D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- John Jackson Mcswain D-SC
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- Oliver Harlan Cross D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Samuel Billingsley Hill D-WA
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
Did not vote
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- John Mcduffie D-AL
- John George Stewart R-DE
- Michael Lambert Igoe D-IL
- Cap Robert Carden D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Verner Wright Main R-MI
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI
- Francis Bernard Condon D-RI
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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