To order the previous question on an amendment to H.J. RES. 46, to annex texas to the U.S., which amendment proposed to admit texas as a state upon the conditio

On Jan 25, 1845, the House voted 113–106 (HJR 46). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 104–35, Others 9–71. 35 members voted against their own party.

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

Yes: 113
No: 106
Did not vote: 15
Date: Jan 25, 1845

By party

Others9 yes · 71 no · 4 didn’t vote
Democrats104 yes · 35 no · 11 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Thomas Hart Seymour D-CT voted no
John Stewart D-CT voted no
George Smith Catlin D-CT voted no
Samuel Simons D-CT voted no
Henry Williams D-MA voted no
Joshua Herrick D-ME voted no
Robert Pinckney Dunlap D-ME voted no
Benjamin White D-ME voted no
Hannibal Hamlin 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
John Randall Reding D-NH voted no
Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer D-NJ 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
Charles Swan Benton D-NY voted no
Preston King D-NY voted no
Levi D. Carpenter D-NY voted no
Jeremiah Eaton Cary D-NY voted no
Smith Meade Purdy D-NY voted no
Orville Robinson D-NY voted no
Horace Wheaton D-NY voted no
George Oscar Rathbun D-NY voted no
Amasa Dana D-NY voted no
Byram Green D-NY voted no
Henry St. John D-OH voted no
Jacob Brinkerhoff D-OH voted no
Joseph Morris D-OH voted no
James Mathews D-OH voted no
William Cochran Mccauslen D-OH voted no
Paul Dillingham Jr. D-VT voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Dixon Hall Lewis D-AL
Pierre Jean Baptiste Evariste Bossier D-LA
Barker Burnell O-MA
Orville Hungerford D-NY
Samuel Beardsley D-NY
Heman Allen Moore D-OH
Henry Roelif Brinkerhoff D-OH
Almon Heath Read D-PA
Henry Frick O-PA
William Wilkins D-PA
Charles Manning Reed O-PA
David W. Dickinson O-TN
Thomas Walker Gilmer D-VA
John Winston Jones D-VA
Henry Alexander Wise D-VA

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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