House roll call 365 · 27th Congress · Jan 27, 1842
To decide whether the house will act now on the substitute resolution of MR. Marshall on censuring MR. Adams for submitting petition requesting the house to tak
On Jan 27, 1842, the House voted 118–75. Result: passed. By party: Others 41–71, Democrats 76–4, Independents 1–0. 4 members voted against their own party.
During the 27th Congress (1841–1842), John Tyler was president.
- Yes
- 118
- No
- 75
- Did not vote
- 63
- Date
- Jan 27, 1842
By party
- Democrats76 yes · 4 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Others41 yes · 71 no · 38 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Charles Goadsby Ferris D-NY voted no
- Richard David Davis D-NY voted no
- David P. Brewster D-NY voted no
- John Gelston Floyd D-NY voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Benjamin Glover Shields D-AL
- Dixon Hall Lewis D-AL
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Reuben Chapman D-AL
- William Winter Payne D-AL
- Edward Cross D-AR
- James A. Meriwether O-GA
- Lott Warren O-GA
- Richard Wylly Habersham O-GA
- Roger Lawson Gamble O-GA
- Thomas Flournoy Foster O-GA
- John Reynolds D-IL
- Zadok Casey O-IL
- John Todd Stuart O-IL
- James Harrison Cravens O-IN
- Andrew Kennedy D-IN
- Henry Smith Lane O-IN
- Philip Triplett O-KY
- Bryan Young Owsley O-KY
- John Burton Thompson O-KY
- John Pope O-KY
- James Cresap Sprigg O-KY
- Thomas Francis Marshall O-KY
- Landaff Watson Andrews O-KY
- William Orlando Butler D-KY
- Edward Douglass White O-LA
- John Moore O-LA
- Isaac Dashiell Jones O-MD
- James Wray Williams D-MD
- William Cost Johnson O-MD
- John Thomson Mason D-MD
- Nathan Clifford D-ME
- Nathaniel Swett Littlefield D-ME
- Alfred Marshall D-ME
- Joshua Adams Lowell D-ME
- John Cummins Edwards D-MO
- John Miller D-MO
- Jacob Thompson D-MS
- William McKendree Gwin D-MS
- Kenneth Rayner O-NC
- John Reeves Jones Daniel D-NC
- Edward Stanly O-NC
- James Iver Mckay D-NC
- Archibald Hunter Arrington D-NC
- Edmund Deberry O-NC
- Romulus Mitchell Saunders D-NC
- Augustine Henry Shepperd O-NC
- Greene Washington Caldwell D-NC
- James Graham O-NC
- Charles Gordon Atherton D-NH
- Edmund Burke D-NH
- Ira Allen Eastman D-NH
- John Randall Reding D-NH
- Tristram Shaw D-NH
- Charles Albert Floyd D-NY
- Joseph Egbert D-NY
- James I. Roosevelt D-NY
- Aaron Ward D-NY
- James Graham Clinton D-NY
- John Van Buren D-NY
- Jacob Houck Jr. D-NY
- Robert Mcclellan D-NY
- Andrew Wheeler Doig D-NY
- Samuel Gordon D-NY
- Lewis Riggs D-NY
- Samuel Partridge D-NY
- John B. Weller D-OH
- William Doan D-OH
- William Medill D-OH
- George Sweeny D-OH
- John Hastings D-OH
- Ezra Dean D-OH
- Charles Brown D-PA
- Joseph Reed Ingersoll O-PA
- Robert Ramsey O-PA
- John Westbrook D-PA
- Peter Newhard D-PA
- George May Keim D-PA
- James Gerry D-PA
- Amos Gustine D-PA
- Benjamin Alden Bidlack D-PA
- John Snyder D-PA
- James McPherson Russell O-PA
- Albert Gallatin Marchand D-PA
- William Jack D-PA
- Isaac Edward Holmes D-SC
- Robert Barnwell Rhett D-SC
- John Campbell D-SC
- Sampson Hale Butler D-SC
- Francis Wilkinson Pickens D-SC
- William Butler O-SC
- James Rogers D-SC
- Thomas De Lage Sumter D-SC
- Patrick Calhoun Caldwell D-SC
- Abraham Mcclellan D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Campbell O-TN
- Hopkins Lacy Turney D-TN
- Robert Looney Caruthers O-TN
- Meredith Poindexter Gentry O-TN
- Aaron Venable Brown D-TN
- Milton Brown O-TN
- Christopher Harris Williams O-TN
- Francis Mallory O-VA
- George Booth Cary D-VA
- Edmund Wilcox Hubard D-VA
- Walter Coles D-VA
- William Leftwich Goggin O-VA
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter I-VA
- John Taliaferro O-VA
- Thomas Walker Gilmer O-VA
- William Smith D-VA
- Cuthbert Powell O-VA
- William Alexander Harris D-VA
- Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart O-VA
- George Washington Hopkins D-VA
- George William Summers O-VA
- Samuel Lewis Hays D-VA
- Lewis Steenrod D-VA
How each representative voted: No
- Joseph Trumbull O-CT
- Thomas Wheeler Williams O-CT
- Thomas Burr Osborne O-CT
- Truman Smith O-CT
- John Hall Brockway O-CT
- George Brydges Rodney O-DE
- David Wallace O-IN
- Joseph Rogers Underwood O-KY
- Willis Green O-KY
- Garrett Davis O-KY
- Robert Charles Winthrop O-MA
- Leverett Saltonstall O-MA
- Caleb Cushing O-MA
- Charles Hudson O-MA
- Osmyn Baker O-MA
- George Nixon Briggs O-MA
- William Barron Calhoun O-MA
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- John Pendleton Kennedy O-MD
- William Pitt Fessenden O-ME
- Benjamin Randall O-ME
- Elisha Hunt Allen O-ME
- Jacob Merritt Howard O-MI
- William Henry Washington O-NC
- Charles Creighton Stratton O-NJ
- John Bancker Aycrigg O-NJ
- John Patterson Bryan Maxwell O-NJ
- Joseph Fitz Randolph O-NJ
- William Halstead O-NJ
- Charles Goadsby Ferris D-NY
- Richard David Davis D-NY
- Daniel Dewey Barnard O-NY
- Archibald Ladley Linn O-NY
- Bernard Blair O-NY
- Thomas Ash Tomlinson O-NY
- Henry Bell Van Rensselaer O-NY
- David P. Brewster D-NY
- John Gelston Floyd D-NY
- Thomas Cotton Chittenden O-NY
- A. Lawrence Foster O-NY
- Victory Birdseye O-NY
- Christopher Morgan O-NY
- Francis Granger O-NY
- Timothy Childs O-NY
- Seth Merrill Gates O-NY
- John Young O-NY
- Staley Nichols Clarke O-NY
- Millard Fillmore O-NY
- Alfred Babcock O-NY
- Nathanael Greene Pendleton O-OH
- Patrick Gaines Goode O-OH
- Jeremiah Morrow O-OH
- Calvary Morris O-OH
- William Russell O-OH
- Joseph Ridgway O-OH
- Benjamin Sprague Cowen O-OH
- Joshua Mathiot O-OH
- Sherlock James Andrews O-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
- Samuel Stokely O-OH
- George Washington Toland O-PA
- Francis James O-PA
- Jeremiah Brown O-PA
- John Edwards O-PA
- James Cooper O-PA
- Joseph Lawrence O-PA
- William Wallace Irwin O-PA
- Thomas Henry O-PA
- Joseph Leonard Tillinghast O-RI
- Robert Bennie Cranston O-RI
- Thomas Dickens Arnold O-TN
- John Minor Botts O-VA
- Hiland Hall O-VT
- Augustus Young O-VT
- John Mattocks O-VT
Did not vote
- William Whiting Boardman O-CT
- Edward Junius Black D-GA
- Eugenius Aristides Nisbet O-GA
- George Walker Crawford O-GA
- Julius Caesar Alford O-GA
- Mark Anthony Cooper D-GA
- Thomas Butler King O-GA
- Walter Terry Colquitt D-GA
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- George H. Proffit O-IN
- Richard Wigginton Thompson O-IN
- Joseph Livingston White O-IN
- Linn Boyd D-KY
- John White O-KY
- John Bennett Dawson D-LA
- Nathan Appleton O-MA
- William Parmenter D-MA
- William Soden Hastings O-MA
- Nathaniel Briggs Borden O-MA
- Barker Burnell O-MA
- John Quincy Adams O-MA
- Charles S. Sewall D-MD
- Alexander Randall O-MD
- Augustus Rhodes Sollers O-MD
- David Bronson O-ME
- Abraham Rencher O-NC
- Anderson Mitchell O-NC
- Lewis Williams O-NC
- Thomas Jones Yorke O-NJ
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- John Mckeon D-NY
- Hiram Paine Hunt O-NY
- John Sanford D-NY
- Samuel Smith Bowne D-NY
- John Chamberlain Clark O-NY
- John Maynard O-NY
- John Greig O-NY
- William Morrison Oliver D-NY
- Samson Mason O-OH
- James Mathews D-OH
- John Sergeant O-PA
- Charles Jared Ingersoll D-PA
- Joseph Fornance D-PA
- William Simonton O-PA
- James Irvin O-PA
- Almon Heath Read D-PA
- Davis Dimock Jr. D-PA
- Henry Black O-PA
- Henry White Beeson D-PA
- Thomas McKean Thompson Mckennan O-PA
- Arnold Plumer D-PA
- Samuel Wilds Trotti D-SC
- Joseph Lanier Williams O-TN
- William Bowen Campbell O-TN
- Harvey Magee Watterson D-TN
- Cave Johnson D-TN
- John Winston Jones D-VA
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- Henry Alexander Wise O-VA
- Linn Banks D-VA
- Richard Walker Barton O-VA
- William Slade O-VT
- Horace Everett O-VT
Other votes
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