House roll call 182 · 76th Congress · Jun 17, 1940
To suspend the rules and pass H.R. 9139, extending the bankruptcy act for 2 years.
On Jun 17, 1940, the House voted 223–100 (HR 9139). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 211–3, Republicans 31–108, Others 3–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 34 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
- 223
- No
- 100
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Jun 17, 1940
By party
- Democrats211 yes · 3 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Republicans31 yes · 108 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA voted yes
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA voted yes
- William Jennings Miller R-CT voted yes
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA voted yes
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted yes
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted yes
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted yes
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL voted yes
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted yes
- William Howard Wheat R-IL voted yes
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN voted no
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN voted yes
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS voted yes
- Frank Carlson R-KS voted yes
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted yes
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA voted yes
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted yes
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN voted yes
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN voted yes
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted yes
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted yes
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- Albert Lincoln Vreeland R-NJ voted yes
- Frank Crowther R-NY voted yes
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR voted yes
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA voted no
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA voted yes
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD voted yes
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD voted yes
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN voted yes
- Joseph Wellington Byrns Jr. D-TN voted no
- Andrew Charles Schiffler R-WV voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick 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
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Lee Edward Geyer D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- James Hardin Peterson 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
- Albert Sidney Camp 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
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Anton Frank Maciejewski D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- William Howard Wheat R-IL
- James Martin Barnes D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- John Cunningham Martin D-IL
- Thomas Vernor Smith D-IL
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May 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
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- David Jenkins Ward D-MD
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- William Devereux Byron D-MD
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon 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
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- James Francis O'Connor D-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
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- Albert Lincoln Vreeland R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- 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
- 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
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Francis John Myers D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- 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
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore 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
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- 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
- 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
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- Andrew Charles Schiffler R-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Thomas Raymond Ball R-CT
- Albert Elmer Austin R-CT
- Boleslaus Joseph Monkiewicz R-CT
- George Short Williams R-DE
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin 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
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers 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
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- John Grant Alexander R-MN
- Oscar Ferdinand Youngdahl R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Jacob Thorkelson R-MT
- John Hyde Sweet R-NE
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Walter Sooy Jeffries R-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn 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
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Harry Nelson Routzohn R-OH
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-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
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Fred Christian Gartner R-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton 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
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns Jr. D-TN
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- John Charles Schafer R-WI
- Lewis Dominic Thill R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Joshua Leroy Johns R-WI
- Frank Ogilvie Horton R-WY
Voted present
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Leland Merritt Ford R-CA
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz D-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- Alonzo Dillard Folger D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Foster Waterman Stearns R-NH
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Joseph A. Mcardle D-PA
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI
- Harry Sandager R-RI
- Clara Gooding Mcmillan D-SC
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Stephen Bolles R-WI
- Charles Hawks Jr. R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Did not vote
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Zadoc Lorenzo Weatherford D-AL
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- 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
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Clyde Harold 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
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- 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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