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Recorded vote
TO AMEND S. 312 (46 ST. 21, JUNE 18, 1929) A BILL PROVIDING FOR THE FIFTEENTH AND SUBSEQUENT DECENNIAL CENSUSES AND TO PROVIDE FOR APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS, BY ELIMINATING THE WORD "UNEMPLO…
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Every roll call on S. 312
How each state's members voted
In 10 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 13 every one voted no; 25 were split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its members voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: 3 yes, 0 no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 1 no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 no
- Washington: 4 yes, 1 no
- Idaho: 2 yes, 0 no
- Montana: 0 yes, 2 no
- North Dakota: 2 yes, 1 no
- Minnesota: 5 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 13 yes, 11 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 10 no
- Michigan: 11 yes, 2 no
- New York: 18 yes, 23 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 1 no
- Massachusetts: 11 yes, 5 no
- Oregon: 3 yes, 0 no
- Nevada: 0 yes, 1 no
- Wyoming: 1 yes, 0 no
- South Dakota: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Iowa: 5 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 8 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 13 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 32 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 10 yes, 2 no
- Connecticut: 5 yes, 0 no
- California: 8 yes, 3 no
- Utah: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Colorado: 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nebraska: 4 yes, 2 no
- Missouri: 6 yes, 10 no
- Kentucky: 5 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 5 yes, 1 no
- Virginia: 3 yes, 7 no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 1 no
- Arizona: 0 yes, 1 no
- New Mexico: 1 yes, 0 no
- Kansas: 7 yes, 1 no
- Arkansas: 0 yes, 7 no
- Tennessee: 2 yes, 8 no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 8 no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 7 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: 2 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Louisiana: 0 yes, 7 no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 8 no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 10 no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 12 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 0 yes, 14 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 0 yes, 4 no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Alabama 0 yes, 10 no
- Edward Berton Almon (Democrat) — NAY
- George Huddleston (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Bascom Steagall (Democrat) — NAY
- John McDuffie (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Lister Hill (Democrat) — NAY
- LaFayette Lee Patterson (Democrat) — NAY
- Lamar Jeffers (Democrat) — NAY
- Miles Clayton Allgood (Democrat) — NAY
- William Bacon Oliver (Democrat) — NAY
- William Brockman Bankhead (Democrat) — NAY
Arkansas 0 yes, 7 no
Arizona 0 yes, 1 no
California 8 yes, 3 no
- Albert Edward Carter (Republican) — YEA
- Arthur Monroe Free (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Forrest Curry (Republican) — YEA
- Clarence Frederick Lea (Democrat) — NAY
- Florence Prag Kahn (Republican) — YEA
- Harry Lane Englebright (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Ellsworth Barbour (Republican) — NAY
- Joe Crail (Republican) — YEA
- Philip David Swing (Republican) — NAY
- Richard Joseph Welch (Republican) — YEA
- William Elmer Evans (Republican) — YEA
Colorado 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Connecticut 5 yes, 0 no
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no
Florida 0 yes, 4 no
Georgia 0 yes, 12 no
- Carl Vinson (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Gordon Edwards (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Hillyer Brand (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Robert Crisp (Democrat) — NAY
- Edward Eugene Cox (Democrat) — NAY
- Leslie Jasper Steele (Democrat) — NAY
- Malcolm Connor Tarver (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Rutherford (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Montgomery Bell (Democrat) — NAY
- William Carter Wright (Democrat) — NAY
- William Chester Lankford (Democrat) — NAY
- William Washington Larsen (Democrat) — NAY
Iowa 5 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Cassius Clay Dowell (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Edward Swanson (Republican) — YEA
- Christian William Ramseyer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Cyrenus Cole (Republican) — YEA
- Ed Hoyt Campbell (Republican) — NAY
- Fred Dickinson Letts (Republican) — YEA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lester Jesse Dickinson (Republican) — YEA
- Lloyd Thurston (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas John Bright Robinson (Republican) — NAY
- William Frederick Kopp (Republican) — NAY
Idaho 2 yes, 0 no
Illinois 13 yes, 11 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath (Democrat) — NAY
- Carl Richard Chindblom (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Adkins (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Everett Denison (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Michael Irwin (Republican) — NAY
- Elliott Wilford Sproul (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Marion Ramey (Republican) — NAY
- Frank R. Reid (Republican) — YEA
- Frederick Albert Britten (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Thomas Rainey (Democrat) — NAY
- Homer William Hall (Republican) — YEA
- James Thomas Igoe (Democrat) — NAY
- John Clayton Allen (Republican) — YEA
- John Theodore Buckbee (Republican) — YEA
- Magne Alfred Michaelson (Republican) — NAY
- Morton Denison Hull (Republican) — YEA
- Oscar Stanton de Priest (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Yates (Republican) — YEA
- Ruth Hanna McCormick (Republican) — NAY
- Stanley Henry Kunz (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Aloysius Doyle (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Sutler Williams (Republican) — YEA
- William Edgar Hull (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Perry Holaday (Republican) — YEA
- William Richard Johnson (Republican) — YEA
- William Wright Arnold (Democrat) — NAY
Indiana 8 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Henry Vestal (Republican) — YEA
- Albert Richardson Hall (Republican) — YEA
- Andrew James Hickey (Republican) — YEA
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David Hogg (Republican) — YEA
- Fred Sampson Purnell (Republican) — YEA
- Harry Clifford Canfield (Democrat) — NAY
- Harry Emerson Rowbottom (Republican) — NAY
- James Whitson Dunbar (Republican) — YEA
- Louis Leon Ludlow (Democrat) — NAY
- Noble Jacob Johnson (Republican) — NAY
- Richard Nash Elliott (Republican) — YEA
- William Robert Wood (Republican) — YEA
Kansas 7 yes, 1 no
- Charles Isaac Sparks (Republican) — YEA
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope (Republican) — YEA
- Homer Hoch (Republican) — YEA
- James George Strong (Republican) — YEA
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer (Republican) — YEA
- William Augustus Ayres (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Sproul (Republican) — YEA
- William Purnell Lambertson (Republican) — YEA
Kentucky 5 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Hayes Kincheloe (Democrat) — NAY
- Elva Roscoe Kendall (Republican) — YEA
- John Durrett Craddock (Republican) — YEA
- John Marshall Robsion (Republican) — YEA
- Judson Lincoln Newhall (Republican) — NAY
- Katherine Gudger Langley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Leavell Walker (Republican) — YEA
- Maurice Hudson Thatcher (Republican) — NAY
- Robert E. Lee Blackburn (Republican) — YEA
- William Voris Gregory (Democrat) — NAY
Louisiana 0 yes, 7 no
Massachusetts 11 yes, 5 no
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Allen Towner Treadway (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Laceille Gifford (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Lee Underhill (Republican) — YEA
- Edith Nourse Rogers (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Herbert Foss (Republican) — YEA
- Frederick William Dallinger (Republican) — NAY
- George Holden Tinkham (Republican) — NAY
- George Russell Stobbs (Republican) — YEA
- John Joseph Douglass (Democrat) — NAY
- John William McCormack (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph William Martin Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Luce (Republican) — YEA
- William Kirk Kaynor (Republican) — YEA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
Maryland 1 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Maine 3 yes, 0 no
Michigan 11 yes, 2 no
- Bird J. Vincent (Republican) — YEA
- Carl Edgar Mapes (Republican) — YEA
- Clarence John McLeod (Republican) — YEA
- Earl Cory Michener (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Probasco Bohn (Republican) — YEA
- Grant Martin Hudson (Republican) — YEA
- James Campbell McLaughlin (Republican) — YEA
- John Clark Ketcham (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Lawrence Hooper (Republican) — YEA
- Louis Convers Cramton (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Henry Clancy (Republican) — NAY
- Roy Orchard Woodruff (Republican) — YEA
- William Francis James (Republican) — NAY
Minnesota 5 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- August Herman Andresen (Republican) — YEA
- Conrad George Selvig (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Clague (Republican) — YEA
- Godfrey Gummer Goodwin (Republican) — NAY
- Harold Knutson (Republican) — NAY
- Melvin Joseph Maas (Republican) — YEA
- Ole Juulson Kvale (Farmer-Labor) — NOT VOTING
- Victor Laurence August Christgau (Republican) — NAY
- Walter Hughes Newton (Republican) — YEA
- William Alvin Pittenger (Republican) — NAY
Missouri 6 yes, 10 no
- Charles Edward Kiefner (Republican) — YEA
- Clarence Andrew Cannon (Democrat) — NAY
- David William Hopkins (Republican) — YEA
- Dewey Jackson Short (Republican) — NAY
- Edgar Clarence Ellis (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Frederick Niedringhaus (Republican) — NAY
- Jacob Le Roy Milligan (Democrat) — NAY
- Joe Jonathan Manlove (Republican) — YEA
- John Joseph Cochran (Democrat) — NAY
- John William Palmer (Republican) — NAY
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer (Republican) — YEA
- Milton Andrew Romjue (Democrat) — NAY
- Ralph Fulton Lozier (Democrat) — NAY
- Rowland Louis Johnston (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Jefferson Halsey (Republican) — NAY
- William Lester Nelson (Democrat) — NAY
Mississippi 0 yes, 8 no
Montana 0 yes, 2 no
North Carolina 2 yes, 8 no
- Charles Andrew Jonas (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Laban Abernethy (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Manly Stedman (Democrat) — NAY
- Edward William Pou (Democrat) — NAY
- George Moore Pritchard (Republican) — YEA
- Jerome Bayard Clark (Democrat) — NAY
- John Hosea Kerr (Democrat) — NAY
- Lindsay Carter Warren (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Lee Doughton (Democrat) — NAY
- William Cicero Hammer (Democrat) — NAY
North Dakota 2 yes, 1 no
Nebraska 4 yes, 2 no
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 10 yes, 2 no
- Charles Anderson Wolverton (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Aubrey Eaton (Republican) — YEA
- Ernest Robinson Ackerman (Republican) — YEA
- Franklin William Fort (Republican) — YEA
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach (Republican) — YEA
- George Nicholas Seger (Republican) — YEA
- Harold Giles Hoffman (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Bacharach (Republican) — YEA
- Mary Teresa Norton (Democrat) — NAY
- Oscar Louis Auf der Heide (Democrat) — NAY
- Randolph Perkins (Republican) — YEA
New Mexico 1 yes, 0 no
Nevada 0 yes, 1 no
New York 18 yes, 23 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Lawrence Somers (Democrat) — NAY
- Anning Smith Prall (Democrat) — NAY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin (Democrat) — NAY
- Archie Dovell Sanders (Republican) — YEA
- Bertrand Hollis Snell (Republican) — YEA
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan (Democrat) — NAY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Alden Reed (Republican) — YEA
- David Joseph O'Connell (Democrat) — NAY
- Edmund Francis Cooke (Republican) — YEA
- Emanuel Celler (Democrat) — NAY
- Fiorello Henry la Guardia (Republican) — NAY
- Francis Dugan Culkin (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Crowther (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Oliver (Democrat) — NAY
- Frederick Morgan Davenport (Republican) — YEA
- Gale Hamilton Stalker (Republican) — YEA
- George Washington Lindsay (Democrat) — NAY
- Hamilton Fish (Republican) — YEA
- Harcourt Joseph Pratt (Republican) — YEA
- James Lucius Whitley (Republican) — YEA
- James Martin Fitzpatrick (Democrat) — NAY
- James Michael Mead (Democrat) — NAY
- James Southworth Parker (Republican) — YEA
- John Davenport Clarke (Republican) — YEA
- John Francis Carew (Democrat) — NAY
- John Francis Quayle (Democrat) — NAY
- John Joseph Boylan (Democrat) — NAY
- John Joseph O'Connor (Democrat) — NAY
- John Taber (Republican) — YEA
- Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright (Republican) — YEA
- Loring Milton Black Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- Parker Corning (Democrat) — NAY
- Patrick J. Carley (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Low Bacon (Republican) — YEA
- Ruth Sears Baker Pratt (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Dickstein (Democrat) — NAY
- Sol Bloom (Democrat) — NAY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Henry Cullen (Democrat) — NAY
- William Frank Brunner (Democrat) — NAY
- William Irving Sirovich (Democrat) — NAY
Ohio 13 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Murphy (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Anthony Mooney (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Blaine McClintock (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Brand (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Cyrus Kearns (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Ellis Moore (Republican) — YEA
- Charles James Thompson (Republican) — NAY
- Chester Castle Bolton (Republican) — YEA
- Francis Seiberling (Republican) — YEA
- Grant Earl Mouser Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- John Charles Speaks (Republican) — YEA
- John Gordon Cooper (Republican) — NAY
- John Levi Cable (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Edward Baird (Republican) — YEA
- Mell Gilbert Underwood (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Crosser (Democrat) — NAY
- Roy Gerald Fitzgerald (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Albert Jenkins (Republican) — YEA
- William Emil Hess (Republican) — YEA
- William Mitchell Morgan (Republican) — YEA
- William Wallace Chalmers (Republican) — NAY
Oklahoma 2 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles O'Connor (Republican) — NAY
- James Vernon McClintic (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jed Joseph Johnson (Democrat) — NAY
- Milton Cline Garber (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Deitz McKeown (Democrat) — NAY
- Ulysses Stevens Stone (Republican) — YEA
- Wilburn Cartwright (Democrat) — NAY
- William Wirt Hastings (Democrat) — NAY
Oregon 3 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 32 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Adam Martin Wyant (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Martin Golder (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Joseph Esterly (Republican) — YEA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess (Republican) — YEA
- Edward McMath Beers (Republican) — YEA
- Franklin Menges (Republican) — YEA
- Frederick William Magrady (Republican) — YEA
- George Austin Welsh (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Franklin Brumm (Republican) — YEA
- George Potter Darrow (Republican) — YEA
- George Scott Graham (Republican) — YEA
- Guy Edgar Campbell (Republican) — YEA
- Harry Allison Estep (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Harry Clay Ransley (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Wilson Temple (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Winfield Watson (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Hoffer Doutrich (Republican) — YEA
- Jacob Banks Kurtz (Republican) — YEA
- James Joseph Connolly (Republican) — YEA
- James Mitchell Chase (Republican) — YEA
- James Montgomery Beck (Republican) — YEA
- James Russell Leech (Republican) — YEA
- James Wolfenden (Republican) — YEA
- Jesse Howard Swick (Republican) — YEA
- Laurence Hawley Watres (Republican) — YEA
- Louis Thomas McFadden (Republican) — YEA
- Melville Clyde Kelly (Republican) — NAY
- Milton William Shreve (Republican) — YEA
- Nathan Leroy Strong (Republican) — YEA
- Patrick Joseph Sullivan (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Austin Kendall (Republican) — YEA
- Stephen Geyer Porter (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Cunningham Cochran (Republican) — YEA
- William Radford Coyle (Republican) — YEA
- William Walton Griest (Republican) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 1 no
South Carolina 0 yes, 7 no
South Dakota 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Tennessee 2 yes, 8 no
- Brazilla Carroll Reece (Republican) — YEA
- Cordell Hull (Democrat) — NAY
- Edward Everett Eslick (Democrat) — NAY
- Ewin Lamar Davis (Democrat) — NAY
- Gordon Weaver Browning (Democrat) — NAY
- Hubert Frederick Fisher (Democrat) — NAY
- James Willis Taylor (Republican) — YEA
- Jere Cooper (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Wellington Byrns (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Davis McReynolds (Democrat) — NAY
Texas 0 yes, 14 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus McCloskey (Democrat) — NAY
- Claude Benton Hudspeth (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Clay Stone Briggs (Democrat) — NAY
- Daniel Edward Garrett (Democrat) — NAY
- Fritz Garland Lanham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Guinn Williams (Democrat) — NAY
- Hatton William Sumners (Democrat) — PRESENT
- James Paul Buchanan (Democrat) — NAY
- John Calvin Box (Democrat) — NAY
- John Marvin Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- John Nance Garner (Democrat) — NAY
- John William Wright Patman (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Luther Alexander Johnson (Democrat) — NAY
- Morgan Gurley Sanders (Democrat) — NAY
- Oliver Harlan Cross (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Quincy Lee (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (Democrat) — NAY
Utah 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Don Byron Colton (Republican) — YEA
- Elmer O. Leatherwood (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 3 yes, 7 no
- Andrew Jackson Montague (Democrat) — NAY
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry St. George Tucker (Democrat) — NAY
- Jacob Aaron Garber (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Crockett Shaffer (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Whitehead (Democrat) — NAY
- Menalcus Lankford (Republican) — YEA
- Patrick Henry Drewry (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Walton Moore (Democrat) — NAY
- Schuyler Otis Bland (Democrat) — NAY
Vermont 1 yes, 1 no
Washington 4 yes, 1 no
Wisconsin 0 yes, 10 no
- Charles August Kading (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Everts Browne (Republican) — NAY
- Florian Lampert (Republican) — NAY
- George John Schneider (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Allen Cooper (Republican) — NAY
- James Archibald Frear (Republican) — NAY
- John Charles Schafer (Republican) — NAY
- John Mandt Nelson (Republican) — NAY
- Merlin Hull (Republican) — NAY
- William Henry Stafford (Republican) — NAY
West Virginia 5 yes, 1 no
Wyoming 1 yes, 0 no
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