HR 9245. Establish a joint committee of Congress to study postal field service reclassification, to increase the rates of basic compensation of post-masters, o

On Jul 21, 1954, the House voted 228–171 (HR 9245). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 207–2, Democrats 20–169, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 22 members voted against their own party.

During the 83rd Congress (1953–1954), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 228
No: 171
Did not vote: 8
Date: Jul 21, 1954

By party

Democrats20 yes · 169 no · 4 didn’t vote
Republicans207 yes · 2 no · 4 didn’t vote
Independents1 yes · 0 no

Who broke with their party

Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
Courtney Warren Campbell D-FL voted yes
Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted yes
James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted yes
Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted yes
Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted no
Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted yes
Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted yes
Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted yes
Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted yes
Brady Preston Gentry D-TX voted yes
Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX voted yes
Albert Thomas D-TX voted yes
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX voted yes
Martin Dies Jr. D-TX voted yes
Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted yes
William Munford Tuck D-VA voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
Gordon Leo Mcdonough 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
Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
Albert William Cretella R-CT
Albert Paul Morano R-CT
James Thomas Patterson R-CT
Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
Herbert Birchby Warburton R-DE
Courtney Warren Campbell D-FL
Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
James Andrew Haley D-FL
Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
Henry Oscar Talle 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
Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
William Estus Mcvey R-IL
Richard William Hoffman R-IL
Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
Chauncey William Reed R-IL
Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
William Lee Springer R-IL
Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
John Valentine Beamer R-IN
Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
William Gilmer Bray R-IN
D. Bailey Merrill 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
James Stephen Golden R-KY
Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
John Walter Heselton R-MA
Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
William Henry Bates R-MA
Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
Donald William Nicholson R-MA
Laurence Curtis R-MA
Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
Frank Small Jr. R-MD
DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
Robert Hale R-ME
Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
George Meader R-MI
Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
Kit Francis Clardy R-MI
Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
Ruth Thompson R-MI
Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
Charles Gibb Oakman R-MI
George Anthony Dondero R-MI
August Herman Andresen R-MN
Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
Walter Henry Judd R-MN
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
Jeffrey Paul Hillelson R-MO
William Clay Cole R-MO
Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
Otto Krueger R-ND
Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
Roman Lee Hruska R-NE
Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
Norris H. Cotton R-NH
Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
William Beck Widnall R-NJ
Gordon Canfield R-NJ
Frank Charles Osmers 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
Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
John Henry Ray R-NY
Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
Paul Albert Fino R-NY
Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
James Ernest Wharton R-NY
Dean Park Taylor R-NY
Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
William Robert Williams R-NY
Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
John Taber R-NY
William Sterling Cole R-NY
Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
William Edward Miller R-NY
Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
John Raymond Pillion 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
Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
John Martin Vorys R-OH
William Hanes Ayres R-OH
Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
George Harrison Bender R-OH
Page Henry Belcher R-OK
Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
Karl Clarence King R-PA
Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
Edward John Bonin R-PA
Ivor David Fenton R-PA
Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
John Phillips Saylor R-PA
Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
Louis Edward Graham R-PA
James Grove Fulton R-PA
Robert James Corbett R-PA
Lucius Mendel Rivers 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
Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
Albert Thomas D-TX
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
Douglas R. Stringfellow R-UT
William Adams Dawson R-UT
Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
William Munford Tuck D-VA
Richard Harding Poff R-VA
William Creed Wampler R-VA
Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
William Elmer Neal R-WV

How each representative voted: No

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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