House roll call 23 · 76th Congress · Mar 13, 1939
To pass H. RES. 113, investigation of the milk industry in the district of columbia.
On Mar 13, 1939, the House voted 113–188 (HRE 113). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 115–64, Republicans 1–124, Others 0–3. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 65 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
- 113
- No
- 188
- Did not vote
- 29
- Date
- Mar 13, 1939
By party
- Democrats115 yes · 64 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Republicans1 yes · 124 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 3 no
Who broke with their party
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL voted no
- Luther Patrick D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted no
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA voted no
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted no
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA voted no
- Lee Edward Geyer D-CA voted no
- John Andrew Martin D-CO voted no
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL voted no
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA voted no
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA voted no
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL voted no
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL voted no
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL voted no
- Anton Frank Maciejewski D-IL voted no
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL voted no
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL voted no
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL voted yes
- James Martin Barnes D-IL voted no
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL voted no
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL voted no
- John Cunningham Martin D-IL voted no
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN voted no
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN voted no
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY voted no
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA 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
- Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz D-MI voted no
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski D-MI voted no
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN voted no
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT voted no
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE voted no
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted no
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY voted no
- Pius Louis Schwert D-NY voted no
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY voted no
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK voted no
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK voted no
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK voted no
- Leon Sacks D-PA voted no
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA voted no
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted no
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
- Joseph A. Mcardle D-PA voted no
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC voted no
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN voted no
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN voted no
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN voted no
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT voted no
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA voted no
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA voted no
- Knute Hill D-WA voted no
- George William Johnson D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Clyde Taylor Ellis D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Willis Benjamin Gibbs D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman 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
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- William Devereux Byron D-MD
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman 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
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Alonzo Dillard Folger D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Joseph Wellington Byrns Jr. D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn 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
- Ed Lee Gossett 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
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Lee Edward Geyer D-CA
- Thomas Marion Eaton R-CA
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Thomas Raymond Ball R-CT
- Boleslaus Joseph Monkiewicz R-CT
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-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
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- William Howard Wheat R-IL
- James Martin Barnes D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- John Cunningham Martin 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
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- William Henry Larrabee 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
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- John Grant Alexander R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Jacob Thorkelson R-MT
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- William Lemke R-ND
- George Henry Heinke 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
- Walter Sooy Jeffries R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Albert Lincoln Vreeland R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Wallace Edgar Pierce 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
- John Francis Harter R-NY
- Pius Louis Schwert D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-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
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Albert Greig Rutherford R-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Joseph A. Mcardle D-PA
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI
- Harry Sandager R-RI
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Stephen Bolles R-WI
- Charles Hawks Jr. R-WI
- Harry Wilbur Griswold 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
- Andrew Charles Schiffler R-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- Frank Ogilvie Horton R-WY
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Leland Merritt Ford R-CA
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- Albert Elmer Austin R-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- George Short Williams R-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Thomas Vernor Smith D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Oscar Ferdinand Youngdahl R-MN
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Foster Waterman Stearns R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- 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
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- Michael Joseph Kennedy D-NY
- James Herbert Fay D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- Joseph John O'Brien R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- James Seccombe R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Lycurgus Luther Marshall R-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Fred Christian Gartner R-PA
- Francis John Myers D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
Did not vote
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Zadoc Lorenzo Weatherford D-AL
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- William Evans Burney D-CO
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Florence Reville Gibbs D-GA
- Robert Kingman Goodwin R-IA
- David Jenkins Ward D-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- John Hyde Sweet R-NE
- Morris Michael Edelstein D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- Clara Gooding Mcmillan D-SC
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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