House roll call 2 · 28th Congress · Dec 4, 1843
To amend a resolution that the standing rules and orders of the last house of rep. Be adopted as the rules and orders of proceedings of this session, by elimina
On Dec 4, 1843, the House voted 97–91. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 42–85, Others 55–6. 42 members voted against their own party.
During the 28th Congress (1843–1844), John Tyler was president.
- Yes
- 97
- No
- 91
- Did not vote
- 46
- Date
- Dec 4, 1843
By party
- Others55 yes · 6 no · 23 didn’t vote
- Democrats42 yes · 85 no · 23 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Edward Cross D-AR voted yes
- Samuel Simons D-CT voted yes
- Hugh Anderson Haralson D-GA voted yes
- William John Brown D-IN voted yes
- Joseph Albert Wright D-IN voted yes
- George Alfred Caldwell D-KY voted yes
- John Slidell D-LA voted yes
- Alcée Louis La Branche D-LA voted yes
- Pierre Jean Baptiste Evariste Bossier D-LA voted yes
- James Bennett Hunt D-MI voted yes
- Jacob Thompson D-MS voted yes
- Isaac Gray Farlee D-NJ voted yes
- Moses Gage Leonard D-NY voted yes
- Jeremiah Russell D-NY voted yes
- Zadock Pratt D-NY voted yes
- David Lowrey Seymour D-NY voted yes
- Lemuel Stetson D-NY voted yes
- Chesselden Ellis D-NY voted yes
- Preston King D-NY voted yes
- Jeremiah Eaton Cary D-NY voted yes
- Orville Robinson D-NY voted yes
- Horace Wheaton D-NY voted yes
- Amasa Dana D-NY voted yes
- William Spring Hubbell D-NY voted yes
- John B. Weller D-OH voted yes
- Jacob Brinkerhoff D-OH voted yes
- Jacob Senewell Yost D-PA voted yes
- Richard Brodhead D-PA voted yes
- Benjamin Alden Bidlack D-PA voted yes
- James Black D-PA voted yes
- William Wilkins D-PA voted yes
- Samuel Hays D-PA voted yes
- Joseph Addison Woodward D-SC voted yes
- Isaac Edward Holmes D-SC voted yes
- Julius W. Blackwell D-TN voted yes
- Alvan Cullom D-TN voted yes
- Aaron Venable Brown D-TN voted yes
- Cave Johnson D-TN voted yes
- Walter Coles D-VA voted yes
- Thomas Walker Gilmer D-VA voted yes
- Augustus Alexandria Chapman D-VA voted yes
- George Washington Hopkins D-VA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Dellet O-AL
- Edward Cross D-AR
- Samuel Simons D-CT
- George Brydges Rodney O-DE
- Hugh Anderson Haralson D-GA
- John J. Hardin O-IL
- William John Brown D-IN
- Joseph Albert Wright D-IN
- Samuel Caldwell Sample O-IN
- Willis Green O-KY
- Henry Grider O-KY
- George Alfred Caldwell D-KY
- John White O-KY
- William Poindexter Thomasson O-KY
- Garrett Davis O-KY
- John Slidell D-LA
- Alcée Louis La Branche D-LA
- Pierre Jean Baptiste Evariste Bossier D-LA
- Robert Charles Winthrop O-MA
- Daniel Putnam King O-MA
- Joseph Grinnell O-MA
- James Bennett Hunt D-MI
- Jacob Thompson D-MS
- Thomas Lanier Clingman O-NC
- Daniel Moreau Barringer O-NC
- Edmund Deberry O-NC
- Kenneth Rayner O-NC
- Isaac Gray Farlee D-NJ
- William Wright O-NJ
- Jonas Phillips Phoenix O-NY
- Moses Gage Leonard D-NY
- Hamilton Fish O-NY
- Jeremiah Russell D-NY
- Zadock Pratt D-NY
- David Lowrey Seymour D-NY
- Charles Rogers O-NY
- Lemuel Stetson D-NY
- Chesselden Ellis D-NY
- Preston King D-NY
- Jeremiah Eaton Cary D-NY
- Orville Robinson D-NY
- Horace Wheaton D-NY
- Amasa Dana D-NY
- Thomas J. Patterson O-NY
- Charles Holker Carroll O-NY
- William Spring Hubbell D-NY
- Asher Tyler O-NY
- Albert Smith O-NY
- Washington Hunt O-NY
- John B. Weller D-OH
- Robert Cumming Schenck O-OH
- Joseph Vance O-OH
- John Inskeep Vanmeter O-OH
- Elias Florence O-OH
- Jacob Brinkerhoff D-OH
- Samuel Finley Vinton O-OH
- Perley Brown Johnson O-OH
- Alexander Harper O-OH
- Daniel Rose Tilden O-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
- Edward Joy Morris O-PA
- Joseph Reed Ingersoll O-PA
- Jacob Senewell Yost D-PA
- Michael Hutchinson Jenks O-PA
- Abraham Robinson Mcilvaine O-PA
- Jeremiah Brown O-PA
- Richard Brodhead D-PA
- Benjamin Alden Bidlack D-PA
- Henry Frick O-PA
- Alexander Ramsey O-PA
- Henry Nes O-PA
- James Black D-PA
- James Irvin O-PA
- John Dickey O-PA
- William Wilkins D-PA
- Samuel Hays D-PA
- Charles Manning Reed O-PA
- Joseph Buffington O-PA
- Henry Young Cranston O-RI
- Joseph Addison Woodward D-SC
- Isaac Edward Holmes D-SC
- William Tandy Senter O-TN
- Julius W. Blackwell D-TN
- Alvan Cullom D-TN
- Aaron Venable Brown D-TN
- Joseph Hopkins Peyton O-TN
- Cave Johnson D-TN
- Milton Brown O-TN
- Walter Coles D-VA
- Thomas Walker Gilmer D-VA
- Willoughby Newton O-VA
- Samuel Chilton O-VA
- Augustus Alexandria Chapman D-VA
- George Washington Hopkins D-VA
- Solomon Foot O-VT
- Jacob Collamer O-VT
- George Perkins Marsh O-VT
How each representative voted: No
- James Edwin Belser D-AL
- Dixon Hall Lewis D-AL
- William Winter Payne D-AL
- Felix Grundy Mcconnell D-AL
- Thomas Hart Seymour D-CT
- John Stewart D-CT
- George Smith Catlin D-CT
- Absalom Harris Chappell O-GA
- Howell Cobb D-GA
- Robert Smith D-IL
- John Alexander Mcclernand D-IL
- Orlando Bell Ficklin D-IL
- John Wentworth D-IL
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- Joseph Pendleton Hoge D-IL
- Robert Dale Owen D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Henley D-IN
- Thomas Smith D-IN
- John Wesley Davis D-IN
- John Pettit D-IN
- Andrew Kennedy D-IN
- Linn Boyd D-KY
- James W. Stone D-KY
- Richard French D-KY
- John Wooleston Tibbatts D-KY
- William Parmenter D-MA
- Charles Hudson O-MA
- John Quincy Adams O-MA
- Henry Williams D-MA
- Joshua Herrick D-ME
- Robert Pinckney Dunlap D-ME
- Hannibal Hamlin D-ME
- Robert Mcclelland D-MI
- Gustavus Miller Bower D-MO
- James Butler Bowlin D-MO
- James Hugh Relfe D-MO
- James Madison Hughes D-MO
- John Jameson D-MO
- David Settle Reid D-NC
- Romulus Mitchell Saunders D-NC
- James Iver Mckay D-NC
- Archibald Hunter Arrington D-NC
- Edmund Burke D-NH
- John Parker Hale D-NH
- John Randall Reding D-NH
- Moses Norris Jr. D-NH
- Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer D-NJ
- George Sykes D-NJ
- Littleton Kirkpatrick D-NJ
- Selah Brewster Strong D-NY
- Henry Cruse Murphy D-NY
- William Brown Maclay D-NY
- Joseph Halstead Anderson D-NY
- Richard David Davis D-NY
- James Graham Clinton D-NY
- Daniel Dewey Barnard O-NY
- Charles Swan Benton D-NY
- Orville Hungerford D-NY
- Samuel Beardsley D-NY
- Smith Meade Purdy D-NY
- George Oscar Rathbun D-NY
- William Abbott Moseley O-NY
- Alexander Duncan D-OH
- Emery Davis Potter D-OH
- Henry St. John D-OH
- Joseph Jefferson Mcdowell D-OH
- Heman Allen Moore D-OH
- Joseph Morris D-OH
- James Mathews D-OH
- William Cochran Mccauslen D-OH
- Ezra Dean D-OH
- John T. Smith D-PA
- Charles Jared Ingersoll D-PA
- John Ritter D-PA
- Almon Heath Read D-PA
- Henry Donnel Foster D-PA
- Elisha Reynolds Potter O-RI
- James Augustus Black D-SC
- Richard Franklin Simpson D-SC
- John Campbell D-SC
- Robert Barnwell Rhett D-SC
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- Archibald Atkinson D-VA
- George Coke Dromgoole D-VA
- Edmund Wilcox Hubard D-VA
- Henry Alexander Wise D-VA
- William Lucas D-VA
- William Taylor D-VA
- Lewis Steenrod D-VA
- Paul Dillingham Jr. D-VT
Did not vote
- William Lowndes Yancey D-AL
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Reuben Chapman D-AL
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens O-GA
- Duncan Lamont Clinch O-GA
- Edward Junius Black D-GA
- John Henry Lumpkin D-GA
- William Henry Stiles D-GA
- Caleb Blood Smith O-IN
- John Bennett Dawson D-LA
- Isaac Edward Morse D-LA
- Amos Abbott O-MA
- Osmyn Baker O-MA
- Julius Rockwell O-MA
- Barker Burnell O-MA
- John M. S. Causin O-MD
- Francis Brengle O-MD
- John Wethered O-MD
- John Pendleton Kennedy O-MD
- Jacob Alexander Preston O-MD
- Thomas Ara Spence O-MD
- Luther Severance O-ME
- Freeman Harlow Morse O-ME
- Benjamin White D-ME
- Shepard Cary D-ME
- Lucius Lyon D-MI
- Robert Whyte Roberts D-MS
- Tilghman Mayfield Tucker D-MS
- William Henry Hammett D-MS
- John Reeves Jones Daniel D-NC
- Levi D. Carpenter D-NY
- Byram Green D-NY
- Alfred Parish Stone D-OH
- Edward Stowe Hamlin O-OH
- Henry Roelif Brinkerhoff D-OH
- George Fuller D-PA
- James Pollock O-PA
- Andrew Stewart O-PA
- Cornelius Darragh O-PA
- Armistead Burt D-SC
- David W. Dickinson O-TN
- John Baptista Ashe O-TN
- William Leftwich Goggin O-VA
- John Winston Jones D-VA
- Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA
- George William Summers O-VA
Other votes
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