House roll call 355 · 24th Congress · Jan 18, 1837
To pass a resolution that all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slave
On Jan 18, 1837, the House voted 129–69. Result: passed. By party: Others 129–69.
During the 24th Congress (1835–1836), Andrew Jackson was president.
- Yes
- 129
- No
- 69
- Did not vote
- 57
- Date
- Jan 18, 1837
By party
- Others129 yes · 69 no · 57 didn’t vote
How each representative voted: Yes
- Reuben Chapman 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
- John Calhoon O-KY
- Benjamin Hardin O-KY
- William Jordan Graves O-KY
- John White O-KY
- Chilton Allan O-KY
- Richard French O-KY
- Richard Mentor Johnson O-KY
- John Nevett Steele O-MD
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- James Turner O-MD
- Benjamin Chew Howard O-MD
- Isaac Mckim O-MD
- Francis Thomas O-MD
- Daniel Jenifer O-MD
- 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
- Samuel Jameson Gholson O-MS
- Jesse Atherton Bynum O-NC
- Ebenezer Pettigrew O-NC
- 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
- Lewis Williams O-NC
- Benning Moulton Bean O-NH
- Franklin Pierce O-NH
- Joseph Weeks O-NH
- Robert Burns O-NH
- Samuel Cushman O-NH
- Ferdinand Schureman Schenck O-NJ
- 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
- Nicholas Sickles O-NY
- Aaron Vanderpoel O-NY
- Valentine Efner O-NY
- Gerrit Yates Lansing O-NY
- John Cramer O-NY
- Dudley Farlin 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 Kendall Fuller O-NY
- William Taylor O-NY
- Ulysses Freeman Doubleday O-NY
- Graham Hurd Chapin O-NY
- Joshua Lee O-NY
- Taylor Webster O-OH
- Thomas Lyon Hamer O-OH
- Jeremiah Mclene O-OH
- John Chaney O-OH
- Samson Mason O-OH
- William Kennon Sr. O-OH
- David Spangler O-OH
- William Patterson O-OH
- John Thomson O-OH
- Daniel Kilgore O-OH
- Michael Woolston Ash O-PA
- Jacob Fry Jr. O-PA
- David Douglas Wagener O-PA
- Edward Burd Hubley O-PA
- Henry Logan O-PA
- James Black O-PA
- Andrew Beaumont O-PA
- Joseph Biles Anthony O-PA
- Job Mann O-PA
- John Klingensmith Jr. 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
- John Bell O-TN
- Abram Poindexter Maury O-TN
- Ebenezer J. Shields O-TN
- Cave Johnson O-TN
- Adam Huntsman O-TN
- George Loyall O-VA
- Walter Coles O-VA
- Robert Craig O-VA
- George Washington Hopkins O-VA
- William Mccomas O-VA
- Joseph Johnson O-VA
- William Stephen Morgan O-VA
How each representative voted: No
- Francis Strother Lyon O-AL
- Elisha Haley O-CT
- Samuel Ingham O-CT
- John Jones Milligan O-DE
- Johnathan Mccarty O-IN
- 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 Barron Calhoun 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 Biddle Shepard O-NC
- Abraham Rencher O-NC
- James Graham O-NC
- James Parker O-NJ
- Samuel Fowler O-NJ
- William Chetwood O-NJ
- Hiram Paine Hunt O-NY
- David Abel Russell O-NY
- Daniel Wardwell O-NY
- Francis Granger O-NY
- Timothy Childs O-NY
- George Washington Lay O-NY
- Abner Hazeltine O-NY
- Bellamy Storer O-OH
- Joseph Halsey Crane O-OH
- Samuel Finley Vinton O-OH
- William Key Bond O-OH
- Elias Howell O-OH
- Jonathan Sloane O-OH
- Elisha Whittlesey O-OH
- Benjamin Jones O-OH
- James Harper O-PA
- Joseph Reed Ingersoll O-PA
- Edward Darlington O-PA
- William Hiester O-PA
- Mathias Morris O-PA
- William Clark O-PA
- George Chambers O-PA
- Joseph Henderson O-PA
- John Laporte 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
- Francis Wilkinson Pickens O-SC
- Waddy Thompson Jr. O-SC
- John King Griffin O-SC
- John Winston Jones O-VA
- James Wood Bouldin O-VA
- Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne O-VA
- John Taliaferro O-VA
- John Robertson O-VA
- John Mercer Patton O-VA
- Charles Fenton Mercer O-VA
- Hiland Hall O-VT
- William Slade O-VT
- Horace Everett O-VT
- Heman (of Milton) Allen O-VT
- Henry Fisk Janes O-VT
Did not vote
- Joshua Lanier Martin O-AL
- Joab Lawler O-AL
- Dixon Hall Lewis O-AL
- Andrew Thompson Judson O-CT
- Lancelot Phelps O-CT
- Orrin Holt O-CT
- Zalmon Wildman O-CT
- 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
- Joseph Rogers Underwood O-KY
- John Chambers O-KY
- Henry Johnson O-LA
- Eleazar Wheelock Ripley O-LA
- Rice Garland O-LA
- William Jackson O-MA
- George Corbin Washington O-MD
- John Fairfield O-ME
- Isaac Edwin Crary O-MI
- William Henry Ashley O-MO
- David Dickson O-MS
- Jesse Speight O-NC
- Philemon Dickerson O-NJ
- John Mckeon O-NY
- Ransom Hooker Gillet O-NY
- Samuel Beardsley O-NY
- John Young O-NY
- Philo Case Fuller O-NY
- Thomas Cutting Love O-NY
- Gideon Hard O-NY
- Thomas Corwin O-OH
- Joel Barlow Sutherland O-PA
- David Potts Jr. O-PA
- Henry Augustus Philip Muhlenberg O-PA
- Jesse Miller 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
- Richard Irvine Manning O-SC
- John B. Forester O-TN
- Balie Peyton O-TN
- James Knox Polk O-TN
- William Claiborne Dunlap O-TN
- John Young Mason O-VA
- George Coke Dromgoole O-VA
- Henry Alexander Wise O-VA
- John Roane O-VA
- James Garland O-VA
- Edward Lucas O-VA
- James Madison Hite Beale O-VA
Other votes
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