House roll call 353 · 24th Congress · Jan 18, 1837
To consider a resolution that all petitions, memorials, res., propositions, or papers relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery
On Jan 18, 1837, the House voted 115–57. Result: passed. By party: Others 115–57.
During the 24th Congress (1835–1836), Andrew Jackson was president.
- Yes
- 115
- No
- 57
- Did not vote
- 83
- Date
- Jan 18, 1837
By party
- Others115 yes · 57 no · 83 didn’t vote
How each representative voted: Yes
- Reuben Chapman O-AL
- Joshua Lanier Martin O-AL
- Joab Lawler O-AL
- Archibald Yell O-AR
- Isaac Toucey O-CT
- Thomas Tucker Whittlesey O-CT
- Charles Eaton Haynes O-GA
- George Welshman Owens O-GA
- Hopkins Holsey O-GA
- Jesse Franklin Cleveland O-GA
- Seaton Grantland O-GA
- John Reynolds O-IL
- Zadok Casey O-IL
- William L. May O-IL
- Ratliff Boon O-IN
- John Wesley Davis O-IN
- John Carr O-IN
- Amos Lane O-IN
- Edward Allen Hannegan O-IN
- Linn Boyd O-KY
- Albert Gallatin Hawes O-KY
- Sherrod Williams O-KY
- James Harlan O-KY
- Benjamin Hardin O-KY
- William Jordan Graves O-KY
- John White O-KY
- Richard French O-KY
- Richard Mentor Johnson O-KY
- John Nevett Steele O-MD
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- Benjamin Chew Howard O-MD
- Isaac Mckim O-MD
- Francis Thomas O-MD
- John Fairfield O-ME
- Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith O-ME
- Joseph Hall O-ME
- Leonard Jarvis O-ME
- Albert Galliton Harrison O-MO
- John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne O-MS
- Samuel Jameson Gholson O-MS
- James Iver Mckay O-NC
- Micajah Thomas Hawkins O-NC
- Edmund Deberry O-NC
- William Montgomery O-NC
- Augustine Henry Shepperd O-NC
- Henry William Connor O-NC
- James Graham O-NC
- Lewis Williams O-NC
- Benning Moulton Bean O-NH
- Joseph Weeks O-NH
- Robert Burns O-NH
- Samuel Cushman O-NH
- Thomas Lee O-NJ
- 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
- 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
- Matthias Jacob Bovee O-NY
- Abijah Mann Jr. O-NY
- Joel Turrill O-NY
- Rutger Bleecker Miller O-NY
- Sherman Page O-NY
- William Seymour O-NY
- William Mason O-NY
- Joseph Reynolds O-NY
- Stephen Banks Leonard O-NY
- William Taylor O-NY
- Ulysses Freeman Doubleday O-NY
- Graham Hurd Chapin O-NY
- Joshua Lee O-NY
- Taylor Webster O-OH
- Joseph Halsey Crane O-OH
- Thomas Lyon Hamer O-OH
- Jeremiah Mclene O-OH
- Samson Mason O-OH
- David Spangler O-OH
- William Patterson O-OH
- John Thomson O-OH
- Benjamin Jones O-OH
- Daniel Kilgore O-OH
- Jacob Fry Jr. O-PA
- Edward Burd Hubley O-PA
- Henry Logan O-PA
- James Black O-PA
- Joseph Henderson O-PA
- Joseph Biles Anthony O-PA
- John Laporte O-PA
- Andrew Buchanan O-PA
- John Galbraith O-PA
- Henry Laurens Pinckney O-SC
- James Rogers O-SC
- John Peter Richardson O-SC
- William Blount Carter O-TN
- Samuel Bunch O-TN
- Luke Lea O-TN
- James Israel Standifer O-TN
- Abram Poindexter Maury O-TN
- Ebenezer J. Shields O-TN
- Cave Johnson O-TN
- Adam Huntsman O-TN
- William Claiborne Dunlap O-TN
- Walter Coles O-VA
- Robert Craig O-VA
- George Washington Hopkins O-VA
- William Mccomas O-VA
- William Stephen Morgan O-VA
How each representative voted: No
- Samuel Ingham O-CT
- Johnathan Mccarty O-IN
- Joseph Rogers Underwood O-KY
- Abbott Lawrence O-MA
- Stephen Clarendon Phillips O-MA
- Samuel Hoar O-MA
- Levi Lincoln O-MA
- George Grennell Jr. O-MA
- George Nixon Briggs O-MA
- William Barron Calhoun O-MA
- John Reed O-MA
- John Quincy Adams O-MA
- Jeremiah Bailey O-ME
- George Evans O-ME
- William Biddle Shepard O-NC
- Jesse Atherton Bynum O-NC
- James Parker O-NJ
- Samuel Fowler O-NJ
- William Chetwood O-NJ
- Hiram Paine Hunt O-NY
- David Abel Russell O-NY
- Francis Granger O-NY
- Timothy Childs O-NY
- John Young O-NY
- Abner Hazeltine O-NY
- Gideon Hard O-NY
- Bellamy Storer O-OH
- Samuel Finley Vinton O-OH
- William Key Bond O-OH
- John Chaney O-OH
- William Kennon Sr. O-OH
- Elias Howell O-OH
- Jonathan Sloane O-OH
- Elisha Whittlesey O-OH
- James Harper O-PA
- Joseph Reed Ingersoll O-PA
- Edward Darlington O-PA
- William Hiester O-PA
- William Clark O-PA
- George Chambers O-PA
- Job Mann O-PA
- Thomas McKean Thompson Mckennan O-PA
- Harmar Denny O-PA
- Dutee Jerauld Pearce O-RI
- William Sprague O-RI
- William John Grayson O-SC
- Robert Blair Campbell O-SC
- Waddy Thompson Jr. O-SC
- John King Griffin O-SC
- James Wood Bouldin O-VA
- John Taliaferro O-VA
- John Robertson O-VA
- Charles Fenton Mercer O-VA
- Hiland Hall O-VT
- Horace Everett O-VT
- Heman (of Milton) Allen O-VT
- Henry Fisk Janes O-VT
Did not vote
- Dixon Hall Lewis O-AL
- Francis Strother Lyon O-AL
- Andrew Thompson Judson O-CT
- Elisha Haley O-CT
- Lancelot Phelps O-CT
- Orrin Holt O-CT
- Zalmon Wildman O-CT
- John Jones Milligan O-DE
- George Washington Bonaparte Towns O-GA
- Jabez Young Jackson O-GA
- John Coffee O-GA
- Julius Caesar Alford O-GA
- Thomas Glascock O-GA
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- George L. Kinnard O-IN
- William Herod O-IN
- John Calhoon O-KY
- Chilton Allan O-KY
- John Chambers O-KY
- Henry Johnson O-LA
- Eleazar Wheelock Ripley O-LA
- Rice Garland O-LA
- Caleb Cushing O-MA
- William Jackson O-MA
- Nathaniel Briggs Borden O-MA
- James Turner O-MD
- George Corbin Washington O-MD
- Daniel Jenifer O-MD
- Moses Mason Jr. O-ME
- Gorham Parks O-ME
- Isaac Edwin Crary O-MI
- William Henry Ashley O-MO
- David Dickson O-MS
- Ebenezer Pettigrew O-NC
- Jesse Speight O-NC
- Abraham Rencher O-NC
- Franklin Pierce O-NH
- Ferdinand Schureman Schenck O-NJ
- Philemon Dickerson O-NJ
- John Mckeon O-NY
- Nicholas Sickles O-NY
- Dudley Farlin O-NY
- Ransom Hooker Gillet O-NY
- Samuel Beardsley O-NY
- Daniel Wardwell O-NY
- William Kendall Fuller O-NY
- George Washington Lay O-NY
- Philo Case Fuller O-NY
- Thomas Cutting Love O-NY
- Thomas Corwin O-OH
- Joel Barlow Sutherland O-PA
- Michael Woolston Ash O-PA
- David Potts Jr. O-PA
- Mathias Morris O-PA
- David Douglas Wagener O-PA
- Henry Augustus Philip Muhlenberg O-PA
- Jesse Miller O-PA
- Andrew Beaumont O-PA
- John Klingensmith Jr. O-PA
- Samuel Smith Harrison O-PA
- John Banks O-PA
- John James Pearson O-PA
- Franklin Harper Elmore O-SC
- James Henry Hammond O-SC
- Francis Wilkinson Pickens O-SC
- Richard Irvine Manning O-SC
- John B. Forester O-TN
- Balie Peyton O-TN
- John Bell O-TN
- James Knox Polk O-TN
- George Loyall O-VA
- John Young Mason O-VA
- John Winston Jones O-VA
- George Coke Dromgoole O-VA
- Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne O-VA
- Henry Alexander Wise O-VA
- John Roane O-VA
- James Garland O-VA
- John Mercer Patton O-VA
- Edward Lucas O-VA
- James Madison Hite Beale O-VA
- Joseph Johnson O-VA
- William Slade O-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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