House roll call 94 · 74th Congress · Jul 30, 1935
To pass S. 1404, a bill promoting the efficiency of the national defense.
On Jul 30, 1935, the House voted 220–99 (S 1404). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 152–76, Republicans 68–14, Others 1–9. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 90 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
- 220
- No
- 99
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Jul 30, 1935
By party
- Democrats152 yes · 76 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Republicans68 yes · 14 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 9 no
Who broke with their party
- George Huddleston D-AL voted no
- John Elvis Miller D-AR voted no
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA voted no
- John Henry Hoeppel D-CA voted no
- Charles Kramer D-CA voted no
- Charles J. Colden D-CA voted no
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA voted no
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT voted no
- William Michael Citron D-CT voted no
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA voted no
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted no
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA voted no
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA voted no
- Hubert Utterback D-IA voted no
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA voted no
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA voted no
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID voted no
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL voted no
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL voted no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL voted no
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN voted no
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted no
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS voted no
- Edward White Patterson D-KS voted no
- Frank Carlson R-KS voted no
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY voted no
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted no
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski D-MI voted no
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN voted no
- Theodore Christianson R-MN voted no
- William Lester Nelson D-MO voted no
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS voted no
- Roy Elmer Ayers D-MT voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- William Lemke R-ND voted no
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE voted no
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE voted no
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ voted no
- Peter Angelo Cavicchia R-NJ voted no
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio R-NY voted no
- Bert Lord R-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH voted no
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted no
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
- Charles Vilas Truax D-OH voted no
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH voted no
- John Conover Nichols D-OK voted no
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK voted no
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK voted no
- Will Rogers D-OK voted no
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR voted no
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA voted no
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA voted no
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA voted no
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA voted no
- Theodore Leo Moritz D-PA voted no
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA voted no
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC voted no
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD voted no
- James Willis Taylor R-TN voted no
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN voted no
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN voted no
- John William Wright Patman D-TX voted no
And 10 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- Archibald Hill Carmichael D-AL
- William Joshua Driver 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
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Florence Prag Kahn R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Samuel LaFort Collins R-CA
- Lawrence Lewis 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
- John George Stewart R-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- Bryant Thomas Castellow D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews 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
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Donald Claude Dobbins D-IL
- Harry Howland Mason D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- William Wright Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Martin Adlai Brennan D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- William Randolph Carpenter D-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- William Voris Gregory D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- John Nicholas Sandlin D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- Cleveland Dear D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- William Joseph Granfield D-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. R-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Joseph Patrick Monaghan D-MT
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- 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
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Richard Joseph Tonry D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Patrick Duffy D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- John Baker Hollister R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Warren Joseph Duffey D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- William Louis Fiesinger D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- William Alexander Ekwall R-OR
- Harry Clay Ransley R-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- Charles Murray Turpin R-PA
- William Emanuel Richardson D-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Joshua Twing Brooks D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Theodore B. Werner D-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Oliver Harlan Cross D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Samuel Billingsley Hill D-WA
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George Huddleston D-AL
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- John Henry Hoeppel D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Hubert Utterback D-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Ernest Lundeen O-MN
- Theodore Christianson R-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- Roy Elmer Ayers D-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Peter Angelo Cavicchia R-NJ
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio R-NY
- Bert Lord R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Charles Vilas Truax D-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Theodore Leo Moritz D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- Marion Anthony Zioncheck D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Gerald John Boileau O-WI
- George John Schneider O-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
Voted present
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- George Burnham R-CA
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- William Lincoln Higgins R-CT
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- Bernhard Martin Jacobsen D-IA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- Glover H. Cary D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Numa Francois Montet D-LA
- Jared Young Sanders Jr. D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Richard Manning Russell D-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Edward Carleton Moran Jr. D-ME
- Henry Mahlon Kimball R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Prentiss Marsh Brown D-MI
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- James Robert Claiborne D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- Aubert Culberson Dunn D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- William Nathaniel Rogers D-NH
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Randolph Perkins R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Stephen Andrew Rudd D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Parker Corning D-NY
- William David Thomas R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Frederick James Sisson D-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- Leroy Tate Marshall R-OH
- Mell Gilbert Underwood D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Percy Lee Gassaway D-OK
- Joshua Bryan Lee D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- William Henry Wilson R-PA
- Clare Gerald Fenerty R-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Charles Elmer Dietrich D-PA
- Isaac Hoffer Doutrich R-PA
- Denis Joseph Driscoll D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- William Markle Berlin D-PA
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- John Jackson Mcswain D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Wesley Lloyd D-WA
- George William Johnson D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Did not vote
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- John Mcduffie D-AL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Michael Lambert Igoe D-IL
- Cap Robert Carden D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Simon Moulton Hamlin D-ME
- Verner Wright Main R-MI
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI
- Francis Bernard Condon D-RI
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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