House roll call 155 · 75th Congress · Jun 14, 1938
To agree to conference report on H. J. RES. 679, (p. Res. 122), the emergency relief and public buildings bill.
On Jun 14, 1938, the House voted 297–74 (HJR 679). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 273–15, Republicans 18–66, Others 13–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 33 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
- 297
- No
- 74
- Did not vote
- 22
- Date
- Jun 14, 1938
By party
- Democrats273 yes · 15 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Republicans18 yes · 66 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others13 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA voted yes
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA voted yes
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA voted yes
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA voted yes
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL voted yes
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN voted no
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted yes
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted yes
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME voted yes
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC voted no
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- David Lane Powers R-NJ voted yes
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ voted yes
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH voted no
- Will Rogers D-OK voted no
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR voted yes
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD voted yes
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX voted no
- Milton Horace West D-TX voted no
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA voted no
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA voted no
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman 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
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- David Worth Clark 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
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons 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
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- 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
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-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
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- Paul John Kvale 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
- Charles Jasper Bell 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
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins 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
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle 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
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan 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 Joseph Lanzetta D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan 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
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- 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
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen 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
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds 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
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Norman Rond Hamilton D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- 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
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Gerald John Boileau O-WI
- George John Schneider O-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Jennings Randolph 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
How each representative voted: No
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason 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
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Clyde Harold Smith 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
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- Bruce Barton R-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
- 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
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Will Rogers D-OK
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-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
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
Voted present
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Richard Merrill Atkinson D-TN
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- Thomas Granville Burch 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
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-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
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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