House roll call 691 · 27th Congress · Aug 4, 1842
To concur with the amendment of the committee of the whole to S. 283, stipulating the limitations of the pay of the following officials, effective on and after
On Aug 4, 1842, the House voted 102–77 (S 283). Result: passed. By party: Others 69–39, Democrats 32–38, Independents 1–0. 32 members voted against their own party.
During the 27th Congress (1841–1842), John Tyler was president.
- Yes
- 102
- No
- 77
- Did not vote
- 77
- Date
- Aug 4, 1842
By party
- Democrats32 yes · 38 no · 35 didn’t vote
- Others69 yes · 39 no · 42 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Benjamin Glover Shields D-AL voted yes
- Edward Cross D-AR voted yes
- William Orlando Butler D-KY voted yes
- William Parmenter D-MA voted yes
- James Wray Williams D-MD voted yes
- Nathan Clifford D-ME voted yes
- Alfred Marshall D-ME voted yes
- John Miller D-MO voted yes
- Charles Gordon Atherton D-NH voted yes
- Edmund Burke D-NH voted yes
- John Randall Reding D-NH voted yes
- Tristram Shaw D-NH voted yes
- Joseph Egbert D-NY voted yes
- Richard David Davis D-NY voted yes
- James Graham Clinton D-NY voted yes
- Robert Mcclellan D-NY voted yes
- John Sanford D-NY voted yes
- Andrew Wheeler Doig D-NY voted yes
- David P. Brewster D-NY voted yes
- Samuel Smith Bowne D-NY voted yes
- Lewis Riggs D-NY voted yes
- John B. Weller D-OH voted yes
- William Doan D-OH voted yes
- William Medill D-OH voted yes
- George Sweeny D-OH voted yes
- Ezra Dean D-OH voted yes
- Charles Brown D-PA voted yes
- John Snyder D-PA voted yes
- Albert Gallatin Marchand D-PA voted yes
- Edmund Wilcox Hubard D-VA voted yes
- William Alexander Harris D-VA voted yes
- Samuel Lewis Hays D-VA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Benjamin Glover Shields D-AL
- Edward Cross D-AR
- Joseph Trumbull O-CT
- William Whiting Boardman O-CT
- Thomas Wheeler Williams O-CT
- Thomas Burr Osborne O-CT
- Truman Smith O-CT
- John Hall Brockway O-CT
- Zadok Casey O-IL
- John Todd Stuart O-IL
- Richard Wigginton Thompson O-IN
- Joseph Livingston White O-IN
- Henry Smith Lane O-IN
- Bryan Young Owsley O-KY
- Willis Green O-KY
- John Pope O-KY
- Landaff Watson Andrews O-KY
- Garrett Davis O-KY
- William Orlando Butler D-KY
- John Moore O-LA
- Leverett Saltonstall O-MA
- Caleb Cushing O-MA
- William Parmenter D-MA
- Charles Hudson O-MA
- Osmyn Baker O-MA
- George Nixon Briggs O-MA
- William Barron Calhoun O-MA
- Nathaniel Briggs Borden O-MA
- Barker Burnell O-MA
- John Quincy Adams O-MA
- James Wray Williams D-MD
- Nathan Clifford D-ME
- Benjamin Randall O-ME
- Alfred Marshall D-ME
- Jacob Merritt Howard O-MI
- John Miller D-MO
- Charles Gordon Atherton D-NH
- Edmund Burke D-NH
- John Randall Reding D-NH
- Tristram Shaw D-NH
- John Bancker Aycrigg O-NJ
- Thomas Jones Yorke O-NJ
- William Halstead O-NJ
- Joseph Egbert D-NY
- Richard David Davis D-NY
- James Graham Clinton D-NY
- Robert Mcclellan D-NY
- Bernard Blair O-NY
- John Sanford D-NY
- Andrew Wheeler Doig D-NY
- David P. Brewster D-NY
- Samuel Smith Bowne D-NY
- John Chamberlain Clark O-NY
- Lewis Riggs D-NY
- A. Lawrence Foster O-NY
- Victory Birdseye O-NY
- Christopher Morgan O-NY
- John Maynard O-NY
- Francis Granger O-NY
- John Young O-NY
- Alfred Babcock O-NY
- John B. Weller D-OH
- Jeremiah Morrow O-OH
- William Doan D-OH
- Calvary Morris O-OH
- William Russell O-OH
- Joseph Ridgway O-OH
- William Medill D-OH
- Benjamin Sprague Cowen O-OH
- Joshua Mathiot O-OH
- George Sweeny D-OH
- Sherlock James Andrews O-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
- Ezra Dean D-OH
- Charles Brown D-PA
- George Washington Toland O-PA
- Francis James O-PA
- Jeremiah Brown O-PA
- John Edwards O-PA
- James Irvin O-PA
- John Snyder D-PA
- James McPherson Russell O-PA
- Albert Gallatin Marchand D-PA
- Thomas McKean Thompson Mckennan O-PA
- Joseph Leonard Tillinghast O-RI
- Robert Bennie Cranston O-RI
- Thomas Dickens Arnold O-TN
- Joseph Lanier Williams O-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Campbell O-TN
- Edmund Wilcox Hubard D-VA
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter I-VA
- John Taliaferro O-VA
- John Minor Botts O-VA
- Cuthbert Powell O-VA
- Richard Walker Barton O-VA
- William Alexander Harris D-VA
- Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart O-VA
- George William Summers O-VA
- Samuel Lewis Hays D-VA
- William Slade O-VT
- Horace Everett O-VT
- John Mattocks O-VT
How each representative voted: No
- Dixon Hall Lewis D-AL
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Reuben Chapman D-AL
- William Winter Payne D-AL
- George Brydges Rodney O-DE
- Edward Junius Black D-GA
- Lott Warren O-GA
- Mark Anthony Cooper D-GA
- Richard Wylly Habersham O-GA
- Roger Lawson Gamble O-GA
- Thomas Flournoy Foster O-GA
- John Reynolds D-IL
- James Harrison Cravens O-IN
- David Wallace O-IN
- Linn Boyd D-KY
- Philip Triplett O-KY
- Joseph Rogers Underwood O-KY
- Edward Douglass White O-LA
- John Bennett Dawson D-LA
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- Alexander Randall O-MD
- John Pendleton Kennedy O-MD
- William Pitt Fessenden O-ME
- David Bronson O-ME
- Elisha Hunt Allen O-ME
- John Cummins Edwards D-MO
- Jacob Thompson D-MS
- William McKendree Gwin D-MS
- John Reeves Jones Daniel D-NC
- Edward Stanly O-NC
- William Henry Washington O-NC
- James Iver Mckay D-NC
- Edmund Deberry O-NC
- Romulus Mitchell Saunders D-NC
- Augustine Henry Shepperd O-NC
- Abraham Rencher O-NC
- Anderson Mitchell O-NC
- Charles Creighton Stratton O-NJ
- John Patterson Bryan Maxwell O-NJ
- Joseph Fitz Randolph O-NJ
- James I. Roosevelt D-NY
- John Van Buren D-NY
- Archibald Ladley Linn O-NY
- Thomas Ash Tomlinson O-NY
- John Gelston Floyd D-NY
- Thomas Cotton Chittenden O-NY
- Millard Fillmore O-NY
- Samson Mason O-OH
- Samuel Stokely O-OH
- Joseph Reed Ingersoll O-PA
- Charles Jared Ingersoll D-PA
- Robert Ramsey O-PA
- John Westbrook D-PA
- Peter Newhard D-PA
- Amos Gustine D-PA
- Benjamin Alden Bidlack D-PA
- Almon Heath Read D-PA
- Henry White Beeson D-PA
- William Wallace Irwin O-PA
- Arnold Plumer D-PA
- William Butler O-SC
- Thomas De Lage Sumter D-SC
- Patrick Calhoun Caldwell D-SC
- Abraham Mcclellan D-TN
- Hopkins Lacy Turney D-TN
- William Bowen Campbell O-TN
- Robert Looney Caruthers O-TN
- Meredith Poindexter Gentry O-TN
- Harvey Magee Watterson D-TN
- Aaron Venable Brown D-TN
- Cave Johnson D-TN
- John Winston Jones D-VA
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- Walter Coles D-VA
- William Leftwich Goggin O-VA
- George Washington Hopkins D-VA
- Lewis Steenrod D-VA
Did not vote
- Eugenius Aristides Nisbet O-GA
- George Walker Crawford O-GA
- James A. Meriwether O-GA
- Julius Caesar Alford O-GA
- Thomas Butler King O-GA
- Walter Terry Colquitt D-GA
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- George H. Proffit O-IN
- Andrew Kennedy D-IN
- John Burton Thompson O-KY
- James Cresap Sprigg O-KY
- John White O-KY
- Thomas Francis Marshall O-KY
- Nathan Appleton O-MA
- Robert Charles Winthrop O-MA
- William Soden Hastings O-MA
- Isaac Dashiell Jones O-MD
- Charles S. Sewall D-MD
- William Cost Johnson O-MD
- John Thomson Mason D-MD
- Augustus Rhodes Sollers O-MD
- Nathaniel Swett Littlefield D-ME
- Joshua Adams Lowell D-ME
- Kenneth Rayner O-NC
- Archibald Hunter Arrington D-NC
- Greene Washington Caldwell D-NC
- James Graham O-NC
- Lewis Williams O-NC
- Ira Allen Eastman D-NH
- Charles Albert Floyd D-NY
- Charles Goadsby Ferris D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- John Mckeon D-NY
- Aaron Ward D-NY
- Jacob Houck Jr. D-NY
- Hiram Paine Hunt O-NY
- Daniel Dewey Barnard O-NY
- Henry Bell Van Rensselaer O-NY
- Samuel Gordon D-NY
- Samuel Partridge D-NY
- John Greig O-NY
- William Morrison Oliver D-NY
- Timothy Childs O-NY
- Seth Merrill Gates O-NY
- Staley Nichols Clarke O-NY
- Nathanael Greene Pendleton O-OH
- Patrick Gaines Goode O-OH
- James Mathews D-OH
- John Hastings D-OH
- John Sergeant O-PA
- Joseph Fornance D-PA
- George May Keim D-PA
- William Simonton O-PA
- James Gerry D-PA
- James Cooper O-PA
- Davis Dimock Jr. D-PA
- Henry Black O-PA
- Joseph Lawrence O-PA
- William Jack D-PA
- Thomas Henry O-PA
- Isaac Edward Holmes D-SC
- Robert Barnwell Rhett D-SC
- John Campbell D-SC
- Sampson Hale Butler D-SC
- Samuel Wilds Trotti D-SC
- Francis Wilkinson Pickens D-SC
- James Rogers D-SC
- Milton Brown O-TN
- Christopher Harris Williams O-TN
- Francis Mallory O-VA
- George Booth Cary D-VA
- Henry Alexander Wise O-VA
- Thomas Walker Gilmer O-VA
- Linn Banks D-VA
- William Smith D-VA
- Hiland Hall O-VT
- Augustus Young O-VT
Other votes
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