HR 4644. Postal pay increase. Motion to recommit without instructions. Rejected.

On Apr 20, 1955, the House voted 125–287 (HR 4644). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 3–220, Republicans 127–74. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 77 members voted against their own party.

During the 84th Congress (1955–1956), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 125
No: 287
Did not vote: 3
Date: Apr 20, 1955

By party

Democrats3 yes · 220 no · 3 didn’t vote
Republicans127 yes · 74 no

Who broke with their party

William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted no
John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted no
John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA voted no
Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA voted no
Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted no
Albert William Cretella R-CT voted no
Albert Paul Morano R-CT voted no
James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted no
Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT voted no
Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE voted yes
William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
Richard William Hoffman R-IL voted no
Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL voted no
Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
Harold Himmel Velde R-IL voted no
Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
William Lee Springer R-IL voted no
Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted no
John Valentine Beamer R-IN voted no
William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY voted no
John Walter Heselton R-MA voted no
Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
Laurence Curtis R-MA voted no
Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME voted no
Victor Alfred Knox R-MI voted no
John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted no
Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted no
Perkins Bass R-NH voted no
Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted no
Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted no
James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ voted no
William Beck Widnall R-NJ voted no
Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted no
Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ voted no
Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY voted no
James Ernest Wharton R-NY voted no
Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY voted no
Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY voted no
Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY voted no
William Edward Miller R-NY voted no
John Raymond Pillion R-NY voted no
Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH voted no
John Earl Henderson R-OH voted no
William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH voted no
Page Henry Belcher R-OK voted no
Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR voted no
Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR voted no
Benjamin Franklin James R-PA voted no
Paul Bartram Dague R-PA voted no
Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA voted no
Ivor David Fenton R-PA voted no
Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA voted no
Walter Mann Mumma R-PA voted no
Alvin Ray Bush R-PA voted no
James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted no
Leon Harry Gavin R-PA voted no
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA voted no
James Grove Fulton R-PA voted no
Robert James Corbett R-PA voted no
John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted yes
Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted yes
Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA voted no
Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA voted no
Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA voted no
Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI voted no
Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI voted no
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
Craig Hosmer R-CA
John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
James Boyd Utt R-CA
John Phillips R-CA
Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
William Silas Hill R-CO
John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
William Cato Cramer R-FL
Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
Harold Royce Gross R-IA
Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
Chauncey William Reed R-IL
Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
Ralph Harvey R-IN
Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
William Henry Avery R-KS
Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
Myron Virgil George R-KS
Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
Wint Smith R-KS
Eugene Siler R-KY
William Henry Bates R-MA
Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
Robert Hale R-ME
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
George Meader R-MI
August Edgar Johansen R-MI
Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
Ruth Thompson R-MI
Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
George Anthony Dondero R-MI
August Herman Andresen R-MN
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT
Otto Krueger R-ND
Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
Jackson Burton Chase R-NE
Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
Frank John Becker R-NY
Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
John Henry Ray R-NY
Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
Paul Albert Fino R-NY
Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
Dean Park Taylor R-NY
Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
William Robert Williams R-NY
John Taber R-NY
William Sterling Cole R-NY
Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
William Emil Hess R-OH
Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
Cliff Clevenger R-OH
Clarence J. Brown R-OH
Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
John Martin Vorys R-OH
William Hanes Ayres R-OH
Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
Karl Clarence King R-PA
Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
John Phillips Saylor R-PA
John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
William Adams Dawson R-UT
Richard Harding Poff R-VA
Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY

How each representative voted: No

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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