To posrpone consideration of business of dist. Of columbia, for the purpose of considering Senate resolution fixing the 27th inst. As the day of adjournment of

On May 13, 1844, the House voted 137–60. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 75–52, Others 62–8. 52 members voted against their own party.

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

Yes: 137
No: 60
Did not vote: 37
Date: May 13, 1844

By party

Others62 yes · 8 no · 14 didn’t vote
Democrats75 yes · 52 no · 23 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

James Edwin Belser D-AL voted no
William Winter Payne D-AL voted no
George Smith Houston D-AL voted no
Reuben Chapman D-AL voted no
Felix Grundy Mcconnell D-AL voted no
Thomas Hart Seymour D-CT voted no
George Smith Catlin D-CT voted no
Edward Junius Black D-GA voted no
Howell Cobb D-GA voted no
Hugh Anderson Haralson D-GA voted no
John Henry Lumpkin D-GA voted no
William Henry Stiles D-GA voted no
Robert Smith D-IL voted no
John Alexander Mcclernand D-IL voted no
Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL voted no
Joseph Pendleton Hoge D-IL voted no
Robert Dale Owen D-IN voted no
William John Brown D-IN voted no
Linn Boyd D-KY voted no
John Slidell D-LA voted no
Alcée Louis La Branche D-LA voted no
John Bennett Dawson D-LA voted no
William Parmenter D-MA voted no
James Hugh Relfe D-MO voted no
John Jameson D-MO voted no
Jacob Thompson D-MS voted no
Robert Whyte Roberts D-MS voted no
Romulus Mitchell Saunders D-NC voted no
James Iver Mckay D-NC voted no
Edmund Burke D-NH voted no
Moses Norris Jr. D-NH voted no
Littleton Kirkpatrick D-NJ voted no
Henry Cruse Murphy D-NY voted no
James Graham Clinton D-NY voted no
Zadock Pratt D-NY voted no
Charles Swan Benton D-NY voted no
George Oscar Rathbun D-NY voted no
Amasa Dana D-NY voted no
Alexander Duncan D-OH voted no
William Cochran Mccauslen D-OH voted no
Charles Jared Ingersoll D-PA voted no
John Campbell D-SC voted no
Isaac Edward Holmes D-SC voted no
Robert Barnwell Rhett D-SC voted no
George Washington Jones D-TN voted no
Archibald Atkinson D-VA voted no
Walter Coles D-VA voted no
Edmund Wilcox Hubard D-VA voted no
William Lucas D-VA voted no
Augustus Alexandria Chapman D-VA voted no
George Washington Hopkins D-VA voted no
Lewis Steenrod D-VA voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Dixon Hall Lewis D-AL
William Lowndes Yancey D-AL
George Brydges Rodney O-DE
Absalom Harris Chappell O-GA
Duncan Lamont Clinch O-GA
Thomas Jefferson Henley D-IN
Andrew Kennedy D-IN
Isaac Edward Morse D-LA
Pierre Jean Baptiste Evariste Bossier D-LA
Barker Burnell O-MA
Thomas Ara Spence O-MD
Benjamin White D-ME
Lucius Lyon D-MI
William Henry Hammett D-MS
William Wright O-NJ
Levi D. Carpenter D-NY
Samuel Beardsley D-NY
Smith Meade Purdy D-NY
Washington Hunt O-NY
John Inskeep Vanmeter O-OH
Alfred Parish Stone D-OH
Heman Allen Moore D-OH
Edward Stowe Hamlin O-OH
Henry Roelif Brinkerhoff D-OH
Edward Joy Morris O-PA
Abraham Robinson Mcilvaine O-PA
Jeremiah Brown O-PA
Almon Heath Read D-PA
George Fuller D-PA
Henry Frick O-PA
William Wilkins D-PA
Joseph Addison Woodward D-SC
Aaron Venable Brown D-TN
Thomas Walker Gilmer D-VA
William Leftwich Goggin O-VA
John Winston Jones D-VA
Henry Alexander Wise D-VA

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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