House roll call 54 · 81st Congress · May 24, 1949
HR 4591. Provide pay allowa nces, and physical disability retirement for members of the army, navy, air force, marine corps coast gu ard, coast and geodetic su
On May 24, 1949, the House voted 227–163 (HR 4591). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 124–124, Republicans 109–46, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 170 members voted against their own party.
During the 81st Congress (1949–1950), Harry S. Truman was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 227
- No
- 163
- Did not vote
- 14
- Date
- May 24, 1949
By party
- Democrats124 yes · 124 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans109 yes · 46 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted no
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted no
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL voted no
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL voted no
- James William Trimble D-AR voted no
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ voted no
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ voted no
- Clair Engle D-CA voted no
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA voted no
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted no
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted no
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted no
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA voted no
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA voted no
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA voted no
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA voted no
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted no
- John Henry Marsalis D-CO voted no
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT voted no
- John Davis Lodge R-CT voted no
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted no
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE voted no
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted no
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA voted no
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted no
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
- Martin Gorski D-IL voted no
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted no
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted no
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted no
- John Richard Walsh D-IN voted no
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY voted no
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY voted no
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted no
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA voted no
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA voted no
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
- George Joseph Bates R-MA voted no
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA voted no
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted no
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD voted no
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted no
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted no
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI voted no
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI voted no
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI voted no
- John David Dingell D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski D-MI voted no
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted no
And 90 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Neil Joseph Linehan D-IL
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Thurman Charles Crook D-IN
- Edward H. Kruse D-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- James Ellsworth Noland D-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- William P. Bolton D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Raymond Willard Karst D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- James Joseph Murphy D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Earl Thomas Wagner D-OH
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Hugo Sheridan Sims Jr. D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Henry Marsalis D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Richard Walsh D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Esten Miles D-NM
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- William Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer D-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- George Howard Wilson D-OK
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Harry James Davenport D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- James Butler Hare D-SC
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Voted present
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
Did not vote
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. O-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Robert Lewis Coffey Jr. D-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Ben Hugh Guill R-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
Cite or embed this page
Capitol Receipts, “HR 4591. Provide pay allowa nces, and…: House Vote, May 24, 1949,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/81-H-54/hr-4591-provide-pay-allowa-nces-and-physical-disability (accessed 2026-10-17).