House roll call 42 · 23rd Congress · Mar 15, 1834
To postpone indefinitely a resolution to purchase certain books and furnish them to members. (p. 242-1)
On Mar 15, 1834, the House voted 78–114. Result: failed. By party: Others 78–114.
During the 23rd Congress (1833–1834), Andrew Jackson was president.
- Yes
- 78
- No
- 114
- Did not vote
- 66
- Date
- Mar 15, 1834
By party
- Others78 yes · 114 no · 66 didn’t vote
How each representative voted: Yes
- Clement Comer Clay O-AL
- John Mckinley O-AL
- Samuel Wright Mardis O-AL
- Dixon Hall Lewis O-AL
- Noyes Barber O-CT
- Samuel Augustus Foot O-CT
- George Rockingham Gilmer O-GA
- Roger Lawson Gamble O-GA
- Seaborn Jones O-GA
- Thomas Flournoy Foster O-GA
- William Schley O-GA
- John Carr O-IN
- Chittenden Lyon O-KY
- Thomas Chilton O-KY
- Benjamin Hardin O-KY
- Patrick Hamilton Pope O-KY
- Amos Davis O-KY
- Littleton Purnell Dennis O-MD
- Richard Bennett Carmichael O-MD
- Francis Thomas O-MD
- Rufus Mcintire O-ME
- Edward Kavanagh O-ME
- Gorham Parks O-ME
- Leonard Jarvis O-ME
- Thomas H. Hall O-NC
- James Iver Mckay O-NC
- Micajah Thomas Hawkins O-NC
- Augustine Henry Shepperd O-NC
- Abraham Rencher O-NC
- Henry William Connor O-NC
- James Graham O-NC
- Franklin Pierce O-NH
- Henry Hubbard O-NH
- Joseph Morrill Harper O-NH
- Robert Burns O-NH
- Abel Huntington O-NY
- John W. Brown O-NY
- Charles Mcvean O-NY
- Abijah Mann Jr. O-NY
- Joel Turrill O-NY
- Sherman Page O-NY
- Noadiah Johnson O-NY
- Henry Mitchell O-NY
- Rowland Day O-NY
- Robert Todd Lytle O-OH
- Thomas Lyon Hamer O-OH
- William Allen O-OH
- Jeremiah Mclene O-OH
- Robert Mitchell O-OH
- John Thomson O-OH
- Benjamin Jones O-OH
- Humphrey Howe Leavitt O-OH
- William Hiester O-PA
- Joel Keith Mann O-PA
- Robert Ramsey O-PA
- Jesse Miller O-PA
- Samuel Smith Harrison O-PA
- Henry Laurens Pinckney O-SC
- Robert Blair Campbell O-SC
- John Myers Felder O-SC
- John King Griffin O-SC
- John Blair O-TN
- Samuel Bunch O-TN
- Luke Lea O-TN
- James Israel Standifer O-TN
- John B. Forester O-TN
- David W. Dickinson O-TN
- James Knox Polk O-TN
- William Marshall Inge O-TN
- Cave Johnson O-TN
- George Loyall O-VA
- John Young Mason O-VA
- William Segar Archer O-VA
- James Herbert Gholson O-VA
- Thomas Davenport O-VA
- Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne O-VA
- Joseph William Chinn O-VA
- John James Allen O-VA
How each representative voted: No
- John Murphy O-AL
- Jabez Williams Huntington O-CT
- William Wolcott Ellsworth O-CT
- John Jones Milligan O-DE
- James Moore Wayne O-GA
- Charles Slade O-IL
- Zadok Casey O-IL
- Joseph Duncan O-IL
- John Ewing O-IN
- Amos Lane O-IN
- George L. Kinnard O-IN
- Edward Allen Hannegan O-IN
- Christopher Tompkins O-KY
- Martin Beaty O-KY
- James Love O-KY
- Chilton Allan O-KY
- Thomas Alexander Marshall O-KY
- Edward Douglass White O-LA
- Philemon Thomas O-LA
- Benjamin Gorham O-MA
- Gayton Pickman Osgood O-MA
- Edward Everett O-MA
- Levi Lincoln O-MA
- George Grennell Jr. O-MA
- George Nixon Briggs O-MA
- Isaac Chapman Bates O-MA
- John Reed O-MA
- John Quincy Adams O-MA
- James Turner O-MD
- James P. Heath O-MD
- Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith O-ME
- George Evans O-ME
- Moses Mason Jr. O-ME
- Joseph Hall O-ME
- John Bull O-MO
- Harry Cage O-MS
- Jesse Atherton Bynum O-NC
- Jesse Speight O-NC
- Edmund Deberry O-NC
- Daniel Laurens Barringer O-NC
- Lewis Williams O-NC
- Benning Moulton Bean O-NH
- Ferdinand Schureman Schenck O-NJ
- James Parker O-NJ
- William Norton Shinn O-NJ
- Isaac B. Van Houten O-NY
- Churchill Caldom Cambreleng O-NY
- Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence O-NY
- Aaron Ward O-NY
- Abraham Bockee O-NY
- Charles Bodle O-NY
- Aaron Vanderpoel O-NY
- John Adams O-NY
- Job Pierson O-NY
- John Cramer O-NY
- Henry Clinton Martindale O-NY
- Reuben Whallon O-NY
- Ransom Hooker Gillet O-NY
- Samuel Beardsley O-NY
- Daniel Wardwell O-NY
- Nicoll Halsey O-NY
- Samuel Gilbert Hathaway O-NY
- William Taylor O-NY
- Samuel Clark O-NY
- John Dickson O-NY
- Edward Howell O-NY
- Frederick Whittlesey O-NY
- George Washington Lay O-NY
- Abner Hazeltine O-NY
- Gideon Hard O-NY
- Taylor Webster O-OH
- Joseph Halsey Crane O-OH
- Thomas Corwin O-OH
- Samuel Finley Vinton O-OH
- Joseph Vance O-OH
- James Martin Bell O-OH
- David Spangler O-OH
- Jonathan Sloane O-OH
- Elisha Whittlesey O-OH
- Joel Barlow Sutherland O-PA
- Horace Binney O-PA
- John Goddard Watmough O-PA
- David Potts Jr. O-PA
- Edward Darlington O-PA
- David Douglas Wagener O-PA
- Henry King O-PA
- William Clark O-PA
- Charles Augustus Barnitz O-PA
- George Chambers O-PA
- Joseph Henderson O-PA
- Joseph Biles Anthony O-PA
- John Laporte O-PA
- George Burd O-PA
- Richard Coulter O-PA
- Andrew Stewart O-PA
- Thomas McKean Thompson Mckennan O-PA
- Harmar Denny O-PA
- John Banks O-PA
- John Galbraith O-PA
- Dutee Jerauld Pearce O-RI
- George Mcduffie O-SC
- Balie Peyton O-TN
- John Bell O-TN
- David Crockett O-TN
- William Claiborne Dunlap O-TN
- Henry Alexander Wise O-VA
- Charles Fenton Mercer O-VA
- Samuel McDowell Moore O-VA
- John Hall Fulton O-VA
- William Mccomas O-VA
- Hiland Hall O-VT
- William Slade O-VT
- Heman (of Milton) Allen O-VT
- Benjamin F. Deming O-VT
Did not vote
- Ebenezer Jackson Jr. O-CT
- Ebenezer Young O-CT
- Joseph Trumbull O-CT
- Phineas Miner O-CT
- Samuel Tweedy O-CT
- Augustin Smith Clayton O-GA
- John Coffee O-GA
- Richard Henry Wilde O-GA
- John Reynolds O-IL
- William L. May O-IL
- Ratliff Boon O-IN
- Johnathan Mccarty O-IN
- Albert Gallatin Hawes O-KY
- Robert Perkins Letcher O-KY
- Richard Mentor Johnson O-KY
- Henry Johnson O-LA
- Henry Adams Bullard O-LA
- Rice Garland O-LA
- Rufus Choate O-MA
- Stephen Clarendon Phillips O-MA
- John Davis O-MA
- William Jackson O-MA
- William Baylies O-MA
- John Nevett Steele O-MD
- Isaac Mckim O-MD
- William Cost Johnson O-MD
- John Truman Stoddert O-MD
- William Henry Ashley O-MO
- Franklin E. Plummer O-MS
- William Biddle Shepard O-NC
- Philemon Dickerson O-NJ
- Samuel Fowler O-NJ
- Thomas Lee O-NJ
- Campbell Patrick White O-NY
- Charles Goadsby Ferris O-NY
- Dudley Selden O-NY
- John Jordan Morgan O-NY
- Gerrit Yates Lansing O-NY
- William Kendall Fuller O-NY
- Philo Case Fuller O-NY
- Millard Fillmore O-NY
- John Chaney O-OH
- William Patterson O-OH
- Daniel Kilgore O-OH
- James Harper O-PA
- Henry Augustus Philip Muhlenberg O-PA
- Andrew Beaumont O-PA
- Tristam Burges O-RI
- William John Grayson O-SC
- Francis Wilkinson Pickens O-SC
- Warren Ransom Davis O-SC
- William Kennedy Clowney O-SC
- James Blair O-SC
- Richard Irvine Manning O-SC
- James Wood Bouldin O-VA
- Thomas Tyler Bouldin O-VA
- William Penn Taylor O-VA
- Andrew Stevenson O-VA
- John Robertson O-VA
- William Fitzhugh Gordon O-VA
- John Mercer Patton O-VA
- Edward Lucas O-VA
- James Madison Hite Beale O-VA
- Edgar Campbell Wilson O-VA
- Horace Everett O-VT
- Henry Fisk Janes O-VT
Other votes
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