To reconsider the vote by which the house agreed to all the amendments moved by m. Dromgoole to the report on the rules of the house, except that part designate

On Feb 27, 1844, the House voted 55–115. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 3–103, Others 52–12. 3 members voted against their own party.

During the 28th Congress (1843–1844), John Tyler was president.

Yes: 55
No: 115
Did not vote: 64
Date: Feb 27, 1844

By party

Others52 yes · 12 no · 20 didn’t vote
Democrats3 yes · 103 no · 44 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

James Edwin Belser D-AL voted yes
David Settle Reid D-NC voted yes
James Black D-PA voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Dixon Hall Lewis D-AL
William Winter Payne D-AL
George Smith Houston D-AL
Reuben Chapman D-AL
Felix Grundy Mcconnell D-AL
Edward Cross D-AR
Thomas Hart Seymour D-CT
John Stewart D-CT
Samuel Simons D-CT
Edward Junius Black D-GA
Howell Cobb D-GA
Hugh Anderson Haralson D-GA
John Henry Lumpkin D-GA
William Henry Stiles D-GA
John Alexander Mcclernand D-IL
Orlando Bell Ficklin D-IL
John Wentworth D-IL
Robert Dale Owen D-IN
Thomas Jefferson Henley D-IN
William John Brown D-IN
John Wesley Davis D-IN
Joseph Albert Wright D-IN
Andrew Kennedy D-IN
Linn Boyd D-KY
George Alfred Caldwell D-KY
James W. Stone D-KY
Richard French D-KY
John Wooleston Tibbatts D-KY
Alcée Louis La Branche D-LA
Pierre Jean Baptiste Evariste Bossier D-LA
William Parmenter D-MA
Osmyn Baker O-MA
Julius Rockwell O-MA
John Quincy Adams O-MA
Henry Williams D-MA
Thomas Ara Spence O-MD
Joshua Herrick D-ME
Robert Pinckney Dunlap D-ME
Luther Severance O-ME
Hannibal Hamlin D-ME
Robert Mcclelland D-MI
Lucius Lyon D-MI
James Bennett Hunt D-MI
Gustavus Miller Bower D-MO
James Hugh Relfe D-MO
John Jameson D-MO
Jacob Thompson D-MS
Tilghman Mayfield Tucker D-MS
William Henry Hammett D-MS
Romulus Mitchell Saunders D-NC
John Reeves Jones Daniel D-NC
Edmund Burke D-NH
John Parker Hale D-NH
John Randall Reding D-NH
Moses Norris Jr. D-NH
Isaac Gray Farlee D-NJ
William Wright O-NJ
Selah Brewster Strong D-NY
Henry Cruse Murphy D-NY
Moses Gage Leonard D-NY
Hamilton Fish O-NY
Joseph Halstead Anderson D-NY
Richard David Davis D-NY
James Graham Clinton D-NY
Jeremiah Russell D-NY
David Lowrey Seymour D-NY
Charles Rogers O-NY
Lemuel Stetson D-NY
Chesselden Ellis D-NY
Charles Swan Benton D-NY
Preston King D-NY
Orville Hungerford D-NY
Samuel Beardsley D-NY
Jeremiah Eaton Cary D-NY
Smith Meade Purdy D-NY
Orville Robinson D-NY
Horace Wheaton D-NY
George Oscar Rathbun D-NY
Amasa Dana D-NY
Byram Green D-NY
William Spring Hubbell D-NY
William Abbott Moseley O-NY
John B. Weller D-OH
Henry St. John D-OH
Joseph Jefferson Mcdowell D-OH
Heman Allen Moore D-OH
Jacob Brinkerhoff D-OH
Joseph Morris D-OH
James Mathews D-OH
William Cochran Mccauslen D-OH
Ezra Dean D-OH
Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
Joseph Reed Ingersoll O-PA
Jacob Senewell Yost D-PA
John Ritter D-PA
Richard Brodhead D-PA
Benjamin Alden Bidlack D-PA
Henry Donnel Foster D-PA
Elisha Reynolds Potter O-RI
James Augustus Black D-SC
Richard Franklin Simpson D-SC
Joseph Addison Woodward D-SC
John Campbell D-SC
Armistead Burt D-SC
Julius W. Blackwell D-TN
Alvan Cullom D-TN
George Washington Jones D-TN
Aaron Venable Brown D-TN
Cave Johnson D-TN
Archibald Atkinson D-VA
George Coke Dromgoole D-VA
Edmund Wilcox Hubard D-VA
William Taylor D-VA
George Washington Hopkins D-VA
Paul Dillingham Jr. D-VT

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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