House roll call 15 · 24th Congress · Jan 6, 1836
To table a resolution that the subject of abolition of slavery in d.c. Ought not to be entertained, and petitions praying for its abolition should be tabled wit
On Jan 6, 1836, the House voted 66–133. Result: failed. By party: Others 66–133.
During the 24th Congress (1835–1836), Andrew Jackson was president.
- Yes
- 66
- No
- 133
- Did not vote
- 56
- Date
- Jan 6, 1836
By party
- Others66 yes · 133 no · 56 didn’t vote
How each representative voted: Yes
- Elisha Haley O-CT
- John Jones Milligan O-DE
- John Wesley Davis O-IN
- John Carr O-IN
- George L. Kinnard O-IN
- Joseph Rogers Underwood O-KY
- Benjamin Hardin O-KY
- John White O-KY
- Chilton Allan O-KY
- John Chambers O-KY
- Abbott Lawrence O-MA
- Stephen Clarendon Phillips O-MA
- Caleb Cushing O-MA
- Samuel Hoar O-MA
- Levi Lincoln O-MA
- George Grennell Jr. O-MA
- George Nixon Briggs O-MA
- William Jackson O-MA
- Nathaniel Briggs Borden O-MA
- John Reed O-MA
- John Quincy Adams O-MA
- Jeremiah Bailey O-ME
- George Evans O-ME
- William Henry Ashley O-MO
- Lewis Williams O-NC
- James Parker O-NJ
- David Abel Russell O-NY
- Timothy Childs O-NY
- Philo Case Fuller O-NY
- Thomas Cutting Love O-NY
- Gideon Hard O-NY
- Bellamy Storer O-OH
- Joseph Halsey Crane O-OH
- Thomas Corwin O-OH
- Samuel Finley Vinton O-OH
- William Key Bond O-OH
- Samson Mason O-OH
- William Kennon Sr. O-OH
- Elias Howell O-OH
- Elisha Whittlesey O-OH
- Joel Barlow Sutherland O-PA
- Joseph Reed Ingersoll O-PA
- David Potts Jr. O-PA
- Mathias Morris O-PA
- William Clark O-PA
- Henry Logan O-PA
- George Chambers O-PA
- Joseph Henderson O-PA
- Andrew Beaumont O-PA
- Joseph Biles Anthony O-PA
- John Laporte O-PA
- Job Mann O-PA
- John Klingensmith Jr. O-PA
- Thomas McKean Thompson Mckennan O-PA
- Harmar Denny O-PA
- Dutee Jerauld Pearce O-RI
- William Sprague O-RI
- James Henry Hammond O-SC
- Balie Peyton O-TN
- Ebenezer J. Shields O-TN
- Henry Alexander Wise O-VA
- William Mccomas O-VA
- Joseph Johnson O-VA
- Hiland Hall O-VT
- Heman (of Milton) Allen O-VT
- Henry Fisk Janes O-VT
How each representative voted: No
- Reuben Chapman O-AL
- Joshua Lanier Martin O-AL
- Joab Lawler O-AL
- Francis Strother Lyon O-AL
- Andrew Thompson Judson O-CT
- Isaac Toucey O-CT
- Lancelot Phelps O-CT
- Samuel Ingham O-CT
- Charles Eaton Haynes O-GA
- George Washington Bonaparte Towns O-GA
- George Welshman Owens O-GA
- Hopkins Holsey O-GA
- Jabez Young Jackson O-GA
- Jesse Franklin Cleveland O-GA
- John Coffee O-GA
- Seaton Grantland O-GA
- Thomas Glascock O-GA
- John Reynolds O-IL
- Zadok Casey O-IL
- William L. May O-IL
- Ratliff Boon O-IN
- Amos Lane O-IN
- Edward Allen Hannegan O-IN
- Richard Mentor Johnson O-KY
- Henry Johnson O-LA
- Eleazar Wheelock Ripley O-LA
- Rice Garland O-LA
- William Barron Calhoun O-MA
- John Nevett Steele O-MD
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- James Turner O-MD
- Benjamin Chew Howard O-MD
- George Corbin Washington O-MD
- Francis Thomas O-MD
- John Fairfield O-ME
- Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith O-ME
- Moses Mason Jr. O-ME
- Joseph Hall O-ME
- Leonard Jarvis O-ME
- Gorham Parks O-ME
- Albert Galliton Harrison O-MO
- John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne O-MS
- William Biddle Shepard O-NC
- Jesse Atherton Bynum O-NC
- James Iver Mckay O-NC
- Edmund Deberry O-NC
- William Montgomery O-NC
- Augustine Henry Shepperd O-NC
- Abraham Rencher O-NC
- Henry William Connor O-NC
- James Graham O-NC
- Benning Moulton Bean O-NH
- Joseph Weeks O-NH
- Samuel Cushman O-NH
- William Norton Shinn O-NJ
- Abel Huntington O-NY
- Samuel Barton O-NY
- Churchill Caldom Cambreleng O-NY
- Ely Moore O-NY
- Gideon Lee O-NY
- John Mckeon O-NY
- Aaron Ward O-NY
- Abraham Bockee O-NY
- John W. Brown O-NY
- Aaron Vanderpoel O-NY
- Valentine Efner O-NY
- Gerrit Yates Lansing O-NY
- John Cramer O-NY
- Dudley Farlin O-NY
- Ransom Hooker Gillet O-NY
- Abijah Mann Jr. O-NY
- Joel Turrill O-NY
- Samuel Beardsley O-NY
- Daniel Wardwell O-NY
- Sherman Page O-NY
- William Seymour O-NY
- William Mason O-NY
- Joseph Reynolds O-NY
- William Kendall Fuller O-NY
- William Taylor O-NY
- Ulysses Freeman Doubleday O-NY
- Francis Granger O-NY
- Joshua Lee O-NY
- Abner Hazeltine O-NY
- Thomas Lyon Hamer O-OH
- Jeremiah Mclene O-OH
- John Chaney O-OH
- David Spangler O-OH
- William Patterson O-OH
- John Thomson O-OH
- Benjamin Jones O-OH
- Daniel Kilgore O-OH
- Michael Woolston Ash O-PA
- William Hiester O-PA
- Jacob Fry Jr. O-PA
- Edward Burd Hubley O-PA
- Henry Augustus Philip Muhlenberg O-PA
- Jesse Miller O-PA
- Andrew Buchanan O-PA
- Samuel Smith Harrison O-PA
- John Galbraith O-PA
- Henry Laurens Pinckney O-SC
- William John Grayson O-SC
- Robert Blair Campbell O-SC
- Francis Wilkinson Pickens O-SC
- James Rogers O-SC
- Richard Irvine Manning O-SC
- John King Griffin O-SC
- William Blount Carter O-TN
- Samuel Bunch O-TN
- Luke Lea O-TN
- James Israel Standifer O-TN
- John Bell O-TN
- Abram Poindexter Maury O-TN
- Cave Johnson O-TN
- Adam Huntsman O-TN
- George Loyall O-VA
- John Winston Jones O-VA
- George Coke Dromgoole O-VA
- Walter Coles O-VA
- Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne O-VA
- John Roane O-VA
- John Taliaferro O-VA
- John Robertson O-VA
- James Garland O-VA
- John Mercer Patton O-VA
- Edward Lucas O-VA
- James Madison Hite Beale O-VA
- Robert Craig O-VA
- George Washington Hopkins O-VA
- William Stephen Morgan O-VA
- William Slade O-VT
- Horace Everett O-VT
Did not vote
- Dixon Hall Lewis O-AL
- Archibald Yell O-AR
- Orrin Holt O-CT
- Thomas Tucker Whittlesey O-CT
- Zalmon Wildman O-CT
- Julius Caesar Alford O-GA
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- Johnathan Mccarty O-IN
- William Herod O-IN
- Linn Boyd O-KY
- Albert Gallatin Hawes O-KY
- Sherrod Williams O-KY
- James Harlan O-KY
- John Calhoon O-KY
- William Jordan Graves O-KY
- Richard French O-KY
- Isaac Mckim O-MD
- Daniel Jenifer O-MD
- Isaac Edwin Crary O-MI
- David Dickson O-MS
- Samuel Jameson Gholson O-MS
- Ebenezer Pettigrew O-NC
- Jesse Speight O-NC
- Micajah Thomas Hawkins O-NC
- Franklin Pierce O-NH
- Robert Burns O-NH
- Ferdinand Schureman Schenck O-NJ
- Philemon Dickerson O-NJ
- Samuel Fowler O-NJ
- Thomas Lee O-NJ
- William Chetwood O-NJ
- Nicholas Sickles O-NY
- Hiram Paine Hunt O-NY
- Matthias Jacob Bovee O-NY
- Rutger Bleecker Miller O-NY
- Stephen Banks Leonard O-NY
- Graham Hurd Chapin O-NY
- George Washington Lay O-NY
- John Young O-NY
- Taylor Webster O-OH
- Jonathan Sloane O-OH
- James Harper O-PA
- Edward Darlington O-PA
- David Douglas Wagener O-PA
- James Black O-PA
- John Banks O-PA
- John James Pearson O-PA
- Franklin Harper Elmore O-SC
- Waddy Thompson Jr. O-SC
- John Peter Richardson O-SC
- John B. Forester O-TN
- James Knox Polk O-TN
- William Claiborne Dunlap O-TN
- John Young Mason O-VA
- James Wood Bouldin O-VA
- Charles Fenton Mercer O-VA
Other votes
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