To adjourn, during debate on H.R. 126. (p. 541-3)

On Apr 20, 1844, the House voted 68–116. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 49–66, Others 19–50. 49 members voted against their own party.

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

Yes: 68
No: 116
Did not vote: 50
Date: Apr 20, 1844

By party

Others19 yes · 50 no · 15 didn’t vote
Democrats49 yes · 66 no · 35 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Dixon Hall Lewis D-AL voted yes
William Winter Payne D-AL voted yes
George Smith Houston D-AL voted yes
Reuben Chapman D-AL voted yes
Edward Cross D-AR voted yes
Thomas Hart Seymour D-CT voted yes
John Stewart D-CT voted yes
George Smith Catlin D-CT voted yes
Samuel Simons D-CT voted yes
Howell Cobb D-GA voted yes
John Wesley Davis D-IN voted yes
Alcée Louis La Branche D-LA voted yes
William Parmenter D-MA voted yes
Henry Williams D-MA voted yes
Joshua Herrick D-ME voted yes
Jacob Thompson D-MS voted yes
Robert Whyte Roberts D-MS voted yes
William Henry Hammett D-MS voted yes
David Settle Reid D-NC voted yes
James Iver Mckay D-NC voted yes
John Reeves Jones Daniel D-NC voted yes
John Parker Hale D-NH voted yes
Moses Norris Jr. D-NH voted yes
Littleton Kirkpatrick D-NJ voted yes
William Brown Maclay D-NY voted yes
Richard David Davis D-NY voted yes
Jeremiah Russell D-NY voted yes
Zadock Pratt D-NY voted yes
David Lowrey Seymour D-NY voted yes
Chesselden Ellis D-NY voted yes
Orville Hungerford D-NY voted yes
Jeremiah Eaton Cary D-NY voted yes
Horace Wheaton D-NY voted yes
James Mathews D-OH voted yes
John T. Smith D-PA voted yes
James Augustus Black D-SC voted yes
Richard Franklin Simpson D-SC voted yes
Joseph Addison Woodward D-SC voted yes
Armistead Burt D-SC voted yes
Robert Barnwell Rhett D-SC voted yes
Andrew Johnson D-TN voted yes
George Washington Jones D-TN voted yes
Archibald Atkinson D-VA voted yes
George Coke Dromgoole D-VA voted yes
Edmund Wilcox Hubard D-VA voted yes
William Lucas D-VA voted yes
William Taylor D-VA voted yes
Augustus Alexandria Chapman D-VA voted yes
George Washington Hopkins D-VA voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

James Edwin Belser D-AL
William Lowndes Yancey D-AL
Edward Junius Black D-GA
John Henry Lumpkin D-GA
Willis Green O-KY
Henry Grider O-KY
Garrett Davis O-KY
John Bennett Dawson D-LA
Isaac Edward Morse D-LA
Pierre Jean Baptiste Evariste Bossier D-LA
Barker Burnell O-MA
John M. S. Causin O-MD
Thomas Ara Spence O-MD
Luther Severance O-ME
Benjamin White D-ME
Hannibal Hamlin D-ME
Shepard Cary D-ME
James Madison Hughes D-MO
Tilghman Mayfield Tucker D-MS
Romulus Mitchell Saunders D-NC
Archibald Hunter Arrington D-NC
Kenneth Rayner O-NC
George Sykes D-NJ
James Graham Clinton D-NY
Levi D. Carpenter D-NY
Samuel Beardsley D-NY
Alfred Parish Stone D-OH
Heman Allen Moore D-OH
Ezra Dean D-OH
Edward Stowe Hamlin O-OH
Henry Roelif Brinkerhoff D-OH
Almon Heath Read D-PA
George Fuller D-PA
Henry Frick O-PA
James Pollock O-PA
Henry Donnel Foster D-PA
William Wilkins D-PA
John Campbell D-SC
Isaac Edward Holmes D-SC
Julius W. Blackwell D-TN
Aaron Venable Brown D-TN
David W. Dickinson O-TN
Joseph Hopkins Peyton O-TN
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
George Perkins Marsh O-VT
Paul Dillingham Jr. D-VT

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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