House roll call 137 · 28th Congress · Feb 28, 1844
To table a motion to reconsider the vote by which the house laid the report, as amended, of the select committee on the rules and orders of the house, on the ta
On Feb 28, 1844, the House voted 89–83. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 76–32, Others 13–51. 32 members voted against their own party.
During the 28th Congress (1843–1844), John Tyler was president.
- Yes
- 89
- No
- 83
- Did not vote
- 62
- Date
- Feb 28, 1844
By party
- Others13 yes · 51 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Democrats76 yes · 32 no · 42 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Thomas Hart Seymour D-CT voted no
- Joseph Albert Wright D-IN voted no
- William Parmenter D-MA voted no
- Henry Williams D-MA voted no
- Joshua Herrick D-ME voted no
- Robert Pinckney Dunlap D-ME voted no
- Robert Mcclelland D-MI voted no
- Lucius Lyon D-MI voted no
- James Bennett Hunt D-MI voted no
- John Parker Hale D-NH voted no
- Joseph Halstead Anderson D-NY voted no
- Richard David Davis D-NY voted no
- David Lowrey Seymour D-NY voted no
- Lemuel Stetson D-NY voted no
- Chesselden Ellis D-NY voted no
- Charles Swan Benton D-NY voted no
- Orville Hungerford D-NY voted no
- Samuel Beardsley D-NY voted no
- Jeremiah Eaton Cary D-NY voted no
- Smith Meade Purdy D-NY voted no
- Orville Robinson D-NY voted no
- George Oscar Rathbun D-NY voted no
- Amasa Dana D-NY voted no
- Byram Green D-NY voted no
- William Spring Hubbell D-NY voted no
- Joseph Jefferson Mcdowell D-OH voted no
- Joseph Morris D-OH voted no
- William Cochran Mccauslen D-OH voted no
- Richard Brodhead D-PA voted no
- Henry Donnel Foster D-PA voted no
- Samuel Hays D-PA voted no
- Paul Dillingham Jr. D-VT voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Dellet O-AL
- James Edwin Belser D-AL
- 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
- John Stewart D-CT
- Absalom Harris Chappell O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens O-GA
- Duncan Lamont Clinch O-GA
- 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
- Andrew Kennedy D-IN
- Linn Boyd D-KY
- Henry Grider O-KY
- George Alfred Caldwell D-KY
- James W. Stone D-KY
- William Poindexter Thomasson O-KY
- Richard French D-KY
- John Wooleston Tibbatts D-KY
- John Slidell D-LA
- Alcée Louis La Branche D-LA
- Pierre Jean Baptiste Evariste Bossier D-LA
- Hannibal Hamlin D-ME
- 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
- Daniel Moreau Barringer O-NC
- David Settle Reid D-NC
- Edmund Deberry O-NC
- Romulus Mitchell Saunders D-NC
- John Reeves Jones Daniel D-NC
- Edmund Burke D-NH
- John Randall Reding D-NH
- Moses Norris Jr. D-NH
- Isaac Gray Farlee D-NJ
- Selah Brewster Strong D-NY
- Henry Cruse Murphy D-NY
- Moses Gage Leonard D-NY
- James Graham Clinton D-NY
- Jeremiah Russell D-NY
- Preston King D-NY
- Alexander Duncan D-OH
- John B. Weller D-OH
- Henry St. John D-OH
- Heman Allen Moore D-OH
- Jacob Brinkerhoff D-OH
- James Mathews D-OH
- Ezra Dean D-OH
- Jacob Senewell Yost D-PA
- John Ritter D-PA
- Benjamin Alden Bidlack D-PA
- James Black D-PA
- James Augustus Black D-SC
- Richard Franklin Simpson D-SC
- Joseph Addison Woodward D-SC
- John Campbell D-SC
- Armistead Burt D-SC
- Robert Barnwell Rhett D-SC
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- William Tandy Senter O-TN
- Julius W. Blackwell D-TN
- Alvan Cullom D-TN
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- Aaron Venable Brown D-TN
- David W. Dickinson O-TN
- Joseph Hopkins Peyton O-TN
- Cave Johnson D-TN
- John Baptista Ashe O-TN
- Archibald Atkinson D-VA
- George Coke Dromgoole D-VA
- Edmund Wilcox Hubard D-VA
- William Taylor D-VA
- George Washington Hopkins D-VA
- George William Summers O-VA
How each representative voted: No
- Thomas Hart Seymour D-CT
- Caleb Blood Smith O-IN
- Joseph Albert Wright D-IN
- Samuel Caldwell Sample O-IN
- John White O-KY
- Robert Charles Winthrop O-MA
- Daniel Putnam King O-MA
- Amos Abbott O-MA
- William Parmenter D-MA
- Charles Hudson O-MA
- Osmyn Baker O-MA
- Julius Rockwell O-MA
- John Quincy Adams O-MA
- Henry Williams D-MA
- Joseph Grinnell O-MA
- John M. S. Causin O-MD
- John Pendleton Kennedy O-MD
- Jacob Alexander Preston O-MD
- Thomas Ara Spence O-MD
- Joshua Herrick D-ME
- Robert Pinckney Dunlap D-ME
- Luther Severance O-ME
- Freeman Harlow Morse O-ME
- Robert Mcclelland D-MI
- Lucius Lyon D-MI
- James Bennett Hunt D-MI
- Thomas Lanier Clingman O-NC
- John Parker Hale D-NH
- William Wright O-NJ
- Hamilton Fish O-NY
- Joseph Halstead Anderson D-NY
- Richard David Davis D-NY
- David Lowrey Seymour D-NY
- Daniel Dewey Barnard O-NY
- Charles Rogers O-NY
- Lemuel Stetson D-NY
- Chesselden Ellis D-NY
- Charles Swan Benton D-NY
- Orville Hungerford D-NY
- Samuel Beardsley D-NY
- Jeremiah Eaton Cary D-NY
- Smith Meade Purdy D-NY
- Orville Robinson D-NY
- George Oscar Rathbun D-NY
- Amasa Dana D-NY
- Byram Green D-NY
- Thomas J. Patterson O-NY
- Charles Holker Carroll O-NY
- William Spring Hubbell D-NY
- Asher Tyler O-NY
- William Abbott Moseley O-NY
- Albert Smith O-NY
- Washington Hunt O-NY
- Robert Cumming Schenck O-OH
- Joseph Vance O-OH
- Joseph Jefferson Mcdowell D-OH
- Samuel Finley Vinton O-OH
- Perley Brown Johnson O-OH
- Alexander Harper O-OH
- Joseph Morris D-OH
- William Cochran Mccauslen D-OH
- Daniel Rose Tilden O-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
- Edward Joy Morris O-PA
- Joseph Reed Ingersoll O-PA
- Michael Hutchinson Jenks O-PA
- Abraham Robinson Mcilvaine O-PA
- Jeremiah Brown O-PA
- Richard Brodhead D-PA
- Alexander Ramsey O-PA
- James Irvin O-PA
- Andrew Stewart O-PA
- Henry Donnel Foster D-PA
- John Dickey O-PA
- Samuel Hays D-PA
- Charles Manning Reed O-PA
- Joseph Buffington O-PA
- Henry Young Cranston O-RI
- Elisha Reynolds Potter O-RI
- Solomon Foot O-VT
- Jacob Collamer O-VT
- George Perkins Marsh O-VT
- Paul Dillingham Jr. D-VT
Did not vote
- William Lowndes Yancey D-AL
- George Smith Catlin D-CT
- Samuel Simons D-CT
- George Brydges Rodney O-DE
- Robert Smith D-IL
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- Joseph Pendleton Hoge D-IL
- John J. Hardin O-IL
- Thomas Smith D-IN
- John Wesley Davis D-IN
- John Pettit D-IN
- Willis Green O-KY
- Garrett Davis O-KY
- John Bennett Dawson D-LA
- Isaac Edward Morse D-LA
- Barker Burnell O-MA
- Francis Brengle O-MD
- John Wethered O-MD
- Benjamin White D-ME
- Shepard Cary D-ME
- James Butler Bowlin D-MO
- James Madison Hughes D-MO
- Robert Whyte Roberts D-MS
- James Iver Mckay D-NC
- Archibald Hunter Arrington D-NC
- Kenneth Rayner O-NC
- Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer D-NJ
- George Sykes D-NJ
- Littleton Kirkpatrick D-NJ
- Jonas Phillips Phoenix O-NY
- William Brown Maclay D-NY
- Zadock Pratt D-NY
- Levi D. Carpenter D-NY
- Horace Wheaton D-NY
- Emery Davis Potter D-OH
- John Inskeep Vanmeter O-OH
- Elias Florence O-OH
- Alfred Parish Stone D-OH
- Edward Stowe Hamlin O-OH
- Henry Roelif Brinkerhoff D-OH
- John T. Smith D-PA
- Charles Jared Ingersoll D-PA
- Almon Heath Read D-PA
- George Fuller D-PA
- Henry Frick O-PA
- James Pollock O-PA
- Henry Nes O-PA
- Cornelius Darragh O-PA
- William Wilkins D-PA
- Isaac Edward Holmes D-SC
- Milton Brown O-TN
- Walter Coles D-VA
- Thomas Walker Gilmer D-VA
- William Leftwich Goggin O-VA
- John Winston Jones D-VA
- Henry Alexander Wise D-VA
- Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA
- Willoughby Newton O-VA
- Samuel Chilton O-VA
- William Lucas D-VA
- Augustus Alexandria Chapman D-VA
- Lewis Steenrod D-VA
Other votes
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