House roll call 31 · 76th Congress · Apr 12, 1939
To amend H.R. 5324, a bill to amend the national housing act, by requiring that the value of pieces of property whose mortgages are covered by federal insurance
On Apr 12, 1939, the House voted 199–144 (HR 5324). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 68–146, Republicans 138–6, Others 2–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 74 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
- 199
- No
- 144
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Apr 12, 1939
By party
- Democrats68 yes · 146 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Republicans138 yes · 6 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR voted yes
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted yes
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA voted yes
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA voted no
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA voted yes
- John Martin Costello D-CA voted yes
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO voted yes
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO voted yes
- John Andrew Martin D-CO voted yes
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO voted yes
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted yes
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted yes
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted yes
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted yes
- James Martin Barnes D-IL voted yes
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL voted yes
- John Mills Houston D-KS voted yes
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA voted yes
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA voted yes
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted yes
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA voted yes
- John Keller Griffith D-LA voted yes
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted yes
- Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz D-MI voted yes
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted no
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI voted no
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI voted no
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO voted yes
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO voted yes
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO voted yes
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO voted yes
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO voted yes
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT voted yes
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted yes
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC voted yes
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE voted yes
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted no
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ voted no
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH voted yes
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted yes
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK voted yes
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK voted yes
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR voted yes
- John Harold Flannery D-PA voted yes
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA voted yes
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted yes
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA voted yes
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted yes
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC voted yes
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC voted yes
- Butler Black Hare D-SC voted yes
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC voted yes
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX voted yes
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX voted yes
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX voted yes
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted yes
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX voted yes
- Milton Horace West D-TX voted yes
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX voted yes
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX voted yes
- John Marvin Jones D-TX voted yes
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted yes
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX voted yes
- Charles Lacy South D-TX voted yes
- James William Robinson D-UT voted yes
- Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. D-VA voted yes
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA voted yes
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA voted yes
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA voted yes
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA voted yes
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted yes
- Knute Hill D-WA voted yes
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- Albert Elmer Austin R-CT
- Boleslaus Joseph Monkiewicz R-CT
- George Short Williams R-DE
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-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
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- 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
- 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
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Robert Luce 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
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-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
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Jacob Thorkelson R-MT
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- 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
- Foster Waterman Stearns R-NH
- Walter Sooy Jeffries R-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Albert Lincoln Vreeland R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Wallace Edgar Pierce R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- Bert Lord 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
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Harry Nelson Routzohn 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
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- James Seccombe R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- Lycurgus Luther Marshall R-OH
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Fred Christian Gartner R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-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
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI
- Harry Sandager R-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- 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
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham 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
- 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
- Knute Hill D-WA
- 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
- Andrew Charles Schiffler R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs 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
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Willis Benjamin Gibbs D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- 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
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- John Cunningham Martin D-IL
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- 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
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- William Devereux Byron D-MD
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. 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
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Alonzo Dillard Folger D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-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
- 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
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-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 Crosser D-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
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- Francis John Myers D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Joseph A. Mcardle D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns Jr. D-TN
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Voted present
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Leland Merritt Ford R-CA
- Lee Edward Geyer D-CA
- Thomas Marion Eaton R-CA
- Thomas Raymond Ball R-CT
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Anton Frank Maciejewski D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Thomas Vernor Smith D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- William Wallace Blackney R-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
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Harry Wilbur Griswold R-WI
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- Frank Ogilvie Horton R-WY
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
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- David Jenkins Ward D-MD
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner 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
- 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
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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