House roll call 125 · 75th Congress · Apr 8, 1938
To recommit S. 3331 to select committee on government reorganization.2
On Apr 8, 1938, the House voted 204–196 (S 3331). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 111–196, Republicans 90–0, Others 8–5. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 111 members voted against their own party.
During the 75th Congress (1937–1938), Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 204
- No
- 196
- Did not vote
- 20
- Date
- Apr 8, 1938
By party
- Democrats111 yes · 196 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Republicans90 yes · 0 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Others8 yes · 5 no
Who broke with their party
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL voted yes
- William Joshua Driver D-AR voted yes
- William Ben Cravens D-AR voted yes
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR voted yes
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted yes
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA voted yes
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA voted yes
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA voted yes
- John Martin Costello D-CA voted yes
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO voted yes
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO voted yes
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT voted yes
- John Joseph Smith D-CT voted yes
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL voted yes
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL voted yes
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL voted yes
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted yes
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted yes
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA voted yes
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted yes
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA voted yes
- David Worth Clark D-ID voted yes
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL voted yes
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL voted yes
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL voted yes
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL voted yes
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN voted yes
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN voted yes
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN voted yes
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted yes
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY voted yes
- Brent Spence D-KY voted yes
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted yes
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted yes
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD voted yes
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD voted yes
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD voted yes
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD voted yes
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted yes
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN voted yes
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO voted yes
- Wall Doxey D-MS voted yes
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS voted yes
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS voted yes
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC voted yes
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC voted yes
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE voted yes
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE voted yes
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted yes
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ voted yes
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV voted yes
- William Bernard Barry D-NY voted yes
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY voted yes
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY voted yes
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY voted yes
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY voted yes
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY voted yes
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY voted yes
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY voted yes
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted yes
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY voted yes
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY voted yes
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH voted yes
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH voted yes
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted yes
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH voted yes
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH voted yes
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH voted yes
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH voted yes
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH voted yes
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted yes
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted yes
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH voted yes
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH voted yes
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted yes
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH voted yes
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK voted yes
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK voted yes
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK voted yes
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK voted yes
And 31 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- Bert Lord R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA
- Albert Greig Rutherford R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Norman Rond Hamilton D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Gerald John Boileau O-WI
- George John Schneider O-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- John Toussaint Bernard O-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Richard Merrill Atkinson 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
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
Did not vote
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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