S 1. Postal pay raise. Rees motion to return bill to conference with instructions to reduce pay increase. Rejected.

On May 9, 1955, the House voted 118–275 (S 1). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 1–213, Republicans 121–66. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 67 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: 118
No: 275
Did not vote: 3
Date: May 9, 1955

By party

Democrats1 yes · 213 no · 3 didn’t vote
Republicans121 yes · 66 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
Glenard Paul Lipscomb 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
Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
John Valentine Beamer R-IN voted no
William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY voted no
Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted no
Otto Krueger R-ND 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
Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ voted no
Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY voted no
John Henry Ray R-NY voted no
Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted no
Dean Park Taylor R-NY voted no
Bernard William (Pat) Kearney 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
Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY voted no
William Emil Hess R-OH voted no
Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH voted no
Jackson Edward Betts R-OH voted no
Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH voted no
William Hanes Ayres R-OH voted no
Frances Payne Bolton R-OH voted no
William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH voted no
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA 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
James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted no
John Phillips Saylor 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
Thomas Minor Pelly 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
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
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
Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
William Lee Springer R-IL
Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
Earl Wilson R-IN
Ralph Harvey R-IN
Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
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
Laurence Curtis 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
Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
Walter Henry Judd R-MN
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT
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
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
Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
James Ernest Wharton R-NY
Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
William Robert Williams R-NY
John Taber R-NY
William Sterling Cole R-NY
John Raymond Pillion R-NY
Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
Cliff Clevenger R-OH
Clarence J. Brown R-OH
Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
John Martin Vorys R-OH
John Earl Henderson R-OH
Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
Page Henry Belcher R-OK
Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
Karl Clarence King R-PA
Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Howard Henry Baker R-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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