House roll call 69 · 75th Congress · Jul 20, 1937
To amend H. R. 6336, a bill for the relief of sundry claimants, by not allowing funds to be paid as a reimbursement of bail bonds forfieted when several persons
On Jul 20, 1937, the House voted 141–159 (HR 6336). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 76–157, Republicans 77–6, Others 2–10. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 82 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
- 141
- No
- 159
- Did not vote
- 119
- Date
- Jul 20, 1937
By party
- Democrats76 yes · 157 no · 108 didn’t vote
- Republicans77 yes · 6 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 10 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Ben Cravens D-AR voted yes
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA voted yes
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA voted yes
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA voted yes
- John Martin Costello D-CA voted yes
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA voted yes
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted yes
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO voted yes
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL voted yes
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA voted yes
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA voted yes
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA voted yes
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA voted yes
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL voted yes
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL voted yes
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL voted yes
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL voted yes
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL voted yes
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL voted yes
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN voted yes
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN voted yes
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN voted yes
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN voted yes
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS voted no
- Edward White Patterson D-KS voted yes
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- Frank Carlson R-KS voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted yes
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY voted yes
- Brent Spence D-KY voted yes
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted yes
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted yes
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY voted yes
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted yes
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD voted yes
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI voted yes
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI voted yes
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted no
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO voted yes
- William Lester Nelson D-MO voted yes
- Clyde Williams D-MO voted yes
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted yes
- Wall Doxey D-MS voted yes
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS voted yes
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC voted yes
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted yes
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted yes
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC voted yes
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC voted yes
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE voted yes
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE voted yes
- David Lane Powers R-NJ voted no
- Frank Charles Kniffin 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
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK voted yes
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK voted yes
- John Harold Flannery D-PA voted yes
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA voted yes
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA voted yes
- John Buell Snyder D-PA voted yes
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC voted yes
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC voted yes
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC voted yes
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN voted yes
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN voted yes
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN voted yes
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN voted yes
- Jere Cooper D-TN voted yes
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX voted yes
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX voted yes
- Albert Thomas D-TX voted yes
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX voted yes
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX voted yes
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted yes
And 2 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal 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
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- 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
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener 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
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton 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
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard 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
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-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
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-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
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- George William Johnson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- 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
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- John Toussaint Bernard O-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. 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
- 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
- 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
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Richard Merrill Atkinson D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Norman Rond Hamilton D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-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
- John Kee D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
Did not vote
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney 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
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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