House roll call 170 · 76th Congress · Jun 4, 1940
To pass H. RES. 465, rule for consideration of H.R. 9195, bill to amend the national labor relations act. (smith bill)
On Jun 4, 1940, the House voted 292–106 (HRE 465). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 140–100, Republicans 153–7, Others 2–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 107 members voted against their own party.
During the 76th Congress (1939–1940), Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 292
- No
- 106
- Did not vote
- 28
- Date
- Jun 4, 1940
By party
- Democrats140 yes · 100 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Republicans153 yes · 7 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Luther Patrick D-AL voted no
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted no
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted no
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA voted no
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA voted no
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA voted no
- Lee Edward Geyer D-CA voted no
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA voted no
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT voted no
- John Joseph Smith D-CT voted no
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID voted no
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL voted no
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL voted no
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL voted no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted no
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL voted no
- James Mcandrews D-IL voted no
- Frank William Fries D-IL voted no
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL voted no
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL voted no
- Thomas Vernor Smith D-IL voted no
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN voted no
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN voted no
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN voted no
- John Mills Houston D-KS voted no
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted no
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA voted no
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA voted no
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA voted no
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA voted no
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted no
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD voted no
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD voted no
- William Devereux Byron D-MD voted no
- Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz D-MI voted no
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski D-MI voted no
- William Lester Nelson D-MO voted no
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO voted no
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO voted no
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT voted no
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted no
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted no
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ voted no
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV voted no
- William Bernard Barry D-NY voted no
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY voted no
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY voted no
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY voted no
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY voted no
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY voted no
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY voted no
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY voted no
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY voted no
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY voted no
- Morris Michael Edelstein D-NY voted no
- Michael Joseph Kennedy D-NY voted no
- James Herbert Fay D-NY voted no
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY voted no
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted no
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY voted no
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY voted no
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY voted no
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY voted no
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY voted no
- Frank Crowther R-NY voted no
- Pius Louis Schwert D-NY voted no
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY voted no
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY voted no
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH voted no
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH voted no
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted no
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH voted no
And 27 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Clyde Taylor Ellis D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- William Frank Norrell 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
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Leland Merritt Ford R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- Thomas Raymond Ball R-CT
- Albert Elmer Austin R-CT
- Boleslaus Joseph Monkiewicz R-CT
- George Short Williams R-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Willis Benjamin Gibbs D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Robert Kingman Goodwin R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Anton Frank Maciejewski D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- William Howard Wheat R-IL
- James Martin Barnes D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-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
- 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
- David Jenkins Ward D-MD
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman 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
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- John Grant Alexander R-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Oscar Ferdinand Youngdahl R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-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
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- 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
- Jacob Thorkelson R-MT
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- John Hyde Sweet R-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Foster Waterman Stearns R-NH
- William Halstead Sutphin D-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
- Albert Lincoln Vreeland R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Leonard Wood Hall 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
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Joseph John O'Brien R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- John Francis Harter R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Harry Nelson Routzohn R-OH
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- James Seccombe R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Lycurgus Luther Marshall R-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Fred Christian Gartner R-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-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
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- Harry Sandager R-RI
- Clara Gooding Mcmillan D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns Jr. D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. 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
- Ed Lee Gossett 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. 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
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- Stephen Bolles R-WI
- Charles Hawks Jr. R-WI
- John Charles Schafer R-WI
- Lewis Dominic Thill R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Joshua Leroy Johns R-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- Frank Ogilvie Horton R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- Lee Edward Geyer D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Thomas Vernor Smith D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- 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 D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- William Devereux Byron D-MD
- Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- 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
- Morris Michael Edelstein D-NY
- Michael Joseph Kennedy D-NY
- James Herbert Fay D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Pius Louis Schwert D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- Francis John Myers D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Joseph A. Mcardle D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Andrew Charles Schiffler R-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Voted present
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- John Cunningham Martin D-IL
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Alonzo Dillard Folger D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Walter Sooy Jeffries R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
Did not vote
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Zadoc Lorenzo Weatherford D-AL
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- Thomas Marion Eaton R-CA
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- William Evans Burney D-CO
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Florence Reville Gibbs D-GA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- George Henry Heinke R-NE
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Wallace Edgar Pierce R-NY
- Bert Lord R-NY
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- Harry Wilbur Griswold R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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