House roll call 396 · 24th Congress · Feb 11, 1837
To pass a resolution that slaves do not possess the rights of petition secured to the people of the United States by the constitution.
On Feb 11, 1837, the House voted 162–18. Result: passed. By party: Others 162–18.
During the 24th Congress (1835–1836), Andrew Jackson was president.
- Yes
- 162
- No
- 18
- Did not vote
- 75
- Date
- Feb 11, 1837
By party
- Others162 yes · 18 no · 75 didn’t vote
How each representative voted: Yes
- Reuben Chapman O-AL
- Joshua Lanier Martin O-AL
- Joab Lawler O-AL
- Dixon Hall Lewis O-AL
- Francis Strother Lyon O-AL
- Archibald Yell O-AR
- Lancelot Phelps O-CT
- Orrin Holt 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
- Julius Caesar Alford O-GA
- Seaton Grantland O-GA
- Thomas Glascock O-GA
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- Zadok Casey O-IL
- Ratliff Boon O-IN
- John Carr O-IN
- Amos Lane O-IN
- William Herod O-IN
- Edward Allen Hannegan O-IN
- Linn Boyd O-KY
- Joseph Rogers Underwood 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
- John Chambers O-KY
- Richard Mentor Johnson O-KY
- Henry Johnson O-LA
- Rice Garland O-LA
- Caleb Cushing O-MA
- Levi Lincoln O-MA
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- Benjamin Chew Howard O-MD
- Francis Thomas O-MD
- Daniel Jenifer O-MD
- John Fairfield O-ME
- Moses Mason Jr. O-ME
- Joseph Hall O-ME
- Leonard Jarvis O-ME
- Gorham Parks O-ME
- Isaac Edwin Crary O-MI
- Albert Galliton Harrison O-MO
- William Henry Ashley O-MO
- John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne O-MS
- Samuel Jameson Gholson O-MS
- William Biddle Shepard O-NC
- 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
- Abraham Rencher O-NC
- Henry William Connor O-NC
- James Graham 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
- Samuel Fowler O-NJ
- Thomas Lee O-NJ
- William Norton Shinn O-NJ
- Abel Huntington 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
- Nicholas Sickles O-NY
- Aaron Vanderpoel O-NY
- Gerrit Yates Lansing O-NY
- John Cramer O-NY
- Dudley Farlin O-NY
- Ransom Hooker Gillet 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 Mason O-NY
- Joseph Reynolds O-NY
- William Taylor O-NY
- Ulysses Freeman Doubleday O-NY
- Graham Hurd Chapin O-NY
- Joshua Lee O-NY
- Timothy Childs O-NY
- George Washington Lay O-NY
- John Young O-NY
- Taylor Webster O-OH
- Thomas Corwin O-OH
- Thomas Lyon Hamer O-OH
- William Key Bond O-OH
- Jeremiah Mclene O-OH
- John Chaney O-OH
- Samson Mason O-OH
- William Kennon Sr. O-OH
- Elias Howell O-OH
- David Spangler O-OH
- William Patterson O-OH
- Elisha Whittlesey O-OH
- John Thomson O-OH
- Daniel Kilgore O-OH
- James Harper O-PA
- Michael Woolston Ash O-PA
- Jacob Fry Jr. O-PA
- David Douglas Wagener O-PA
- Edward Burd Hubley O-PA
- Henry Augustus Philip Muhlenberg O-PA
- Henry Logan O-PA
- George Chambers O-PA
- James Black O-PA
- Job Mann O-PA
- John Klingensmith Jr. O-PA
- John James Pearson O-PA
- John Galbraith O-PA
- Henry Laurens Pinckney O-SC
- Robert Blair Campbell O-SC
- Franklin Harper Elmore O-SC
- Waddy Thompson Jr. 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
- Balie Peyton O-TN
- John Bell 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
- George Loyall O-VA
- John Winston Jones O-VA
- George Coke Dromgoole O-VA
- James Wood Bouldin O-VA
- Walter Coles O-VA
- Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne O-VA
- John Taliaferro O-VA
- John Robertson O-VA
- James Garland O-VA
- John Mercer Patton O-VA
- Charles Fenton Mercer O-VA
- Edward Lucas 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
- Elisha Haley O-CT
- Stephen Clarendon Phillips O-MA
- William Jackson O-MA
- Nathaniel Briggs Borden O-MA
- John Quincy Adams O-MA
- James Parker O-NJ
- David Abel Russell O-NY
- Abner Hazeltine O-NY
- Thomas Cutting Love O-NY
- Jonathan Sloane O-OH
- Joseph Reed Ingersoll O-PA
- David Potts Jr. O-PA
- Edward Darlington O-PA
- Andrew Beaumont O-PA
- Harmar Denny O-PA
- William Slade O-VT
- Heman (of Milton) Allen O-VT
- Henry Fisk Janes O-VT
Did not vote
- Andrew Thompson Judson O-CT
- Isaac Toucey O-CT
- Samuel Ingham 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
- John Reynolds O-IL
- William L. May O-IL
- John Wesley Davis O-IN
- Johnathan Mccarty O-IN
- George L. Kinnard O-IN
- Albert Gallatin Hawes O-KY
- Eleazar Wheelock Ripley O-LA
- Abbott Lawrence O-MA
- Samuel Hoar O-MA
- George Grennell Jr. O-MA
- George Nixon Briggs O-MA
- William Barron Calhoun O-MA
- John Reed O-MA
- John Nevett Steele O-MD
- James Turner O-MD
- Isaac Mckim O-MD
- George Corbin Washington O-MD
- Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith O-ME
- Jeremiah Bailey O-ME
- George Evans O-ME
- David Dickson O-MS
- Jesse Speight O-NC
- Philemon Dickerson O-NJ
- William Chetwood O-NJ
- Samuel Barton O-NY
- John W. Brown O-NY
- Valentine Efner O-NY
- Hiram Paine Hunt O-NY
- Samuel Beardsley O-NY
- Daniel Wardwell O-NY
- William Seymour O-NY
- Stephen Banks Leonard O-NY
- William Kendall Fuller O-NY
- Francis Granger O-NY
- Philo Case Fuller O-NY
- Gideon Hard O-NY
- Bellamy Storer O-OH
- Joseph Halsey Crane O-OH
- Samuel Finley Vinton O-OH
- Benjamin Jones O-OH
- Joel Barlow Sutherland O-PA
- William Hiester O-PA
- Mathias Morris O-PA
- William Clark O-PA
- Jesse Miller O-PA
- Joseph Henderson O-PA
- Joseph Biles Anthony O-PA
- John Laporte O-PA
- Andrew Buchanan O-PA
- Thomas McKean Thompson Mckennan O-PA
- Samuel Smith Harrison O-PA
- John Banks O-PA
- Dutee Jerauld Pearce O-RI
- William Sprague O-RI
- William John Grayson O-SC
- James Henry Hammond O-SC
- Francis Wilkinson Pickens O-SC
- Richard Irvine Manning O-SC
- John King Griffin O-SC
- John B. Forester O-TN
- James Knox Polk O-TN
- John Young Mason O-VA
- Henry Alexander Wise O-VA
- John Roane O-VA
- James Madison Hite Beale O-VA
- Hiland Hall O-VT
- Horace Everett O-VT
Other votes
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