House roll call 93 · 76th Congress · Nov 3, 1939
To agree to the conference report on H.J. RES. 306 tha conference report changes the house's original proposal, in part, by giving the President the power to de
On Nov 3, 1939, the House voted 243–172 (HJR 306). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 227–31, Republicans 20–145, Others 2–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 51 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
- 243
- No
- 172
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Nov 3, 1939
By party
- Democrats227 yes · 31 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Republicans20 yes · 145 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA voted no
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA voted yes
- John Martin Costello D-CA voted no
- Leland Merritt Ford R-CA voted yes
- Thomas Raymond Ball R-CT voted yes
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT voted no
- John Joseph Smith D-CT voted no
- Boleslaus Joseph Monkiewicz R-CT voted yes
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA voted no
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA voted yes
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA voted no
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID voted no
- Frank William Fries D-IL voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted no
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted no
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA voted no
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA voted no
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA voted yes
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD voted no
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME voted yes
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN voted no
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO voted no
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT voted no
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE voted no
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE voted no
- Foster Waterman Stearns R-NH voted yes
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ voted yes
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ voted yes
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- Albert Lincoln Vreeland R-NJ voted yes
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted yes
- William Bernard Barry D-NY voted no
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY voted no
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY voted no
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY voted no
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY voted yes
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY voted yes
- Wallace Edgar Pierce R-NY voted yes
- William Sterling Cole R-NY voted yes
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY voted no
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH voted no
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted no
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH voted no
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
- James Willis Taylor R-TN voted yes
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT 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
- William Brockman Bankhead 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
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- Leland Merritt Ford R-CA
- Lee Edward Geyer D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Thomas Raymond Ball R-CT
- Boleslaus Joseph Monkiewicz R-CT
- 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
- 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
- John Williams Gwynne R-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
- Anton Frank Maciejewski D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- James Martin Barnes D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer 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
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Brent Spence 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
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- David Jenkins Ward D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- William Devereux Byron D-MD
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-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
- 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
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Alonzo Dillard Folger D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Foster Waterman Stearns R-NH
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Albert Lincoln Vreeland R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- Thomas Henry Cullen 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
- 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
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY
- Wallace Edgar Pierce R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Pius Louis Schwert D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan 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
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- Francis John Myers D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Joseph A. Mcardle 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
- James Willis Taylor 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
- Walter (Clift) Chandler 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
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- 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
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Harry Lane Englebright R-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
- John Martin Costello D-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
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-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
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- 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
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- William Howard Wheat R-IL
- Frank William Fries 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
- 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
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- 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
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes 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
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-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
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jacob Thorkelson R-MT
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- 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
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Walter Sooy Jeffries R-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Joseph John O'Brien R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- John Francis Harter R-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
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- James Seccombe R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Lycurgus Luther Marshall R-OH
- James Wheaton Mott R-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
- Ivor David Fenton R-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
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- Charles Francis Risk R-RI
- Harry Sandager R-RI
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- 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
- Frank Ogilvie Horton R-WY
Did not vote
- Zadoc Lorenzo Weatherford D-AL
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- Thomas Marion Eaton R-CA
- William Evans Burney D-CO
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Florence Reville Gibbs D-GA
- Robert Kingman Goodwin R-IA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hyde Sweet R-NE
- Morris Michael Edelstein D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Bert Lord R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Chester Castle Bolton R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- Clara Gooding Mcmillan D-SC
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Harry Wilbur Griswold R-WI
Other votes
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