Senate roll call 70 · 28th Congress · May 6, 1844
To amend the bill S. 101, supplemental to the act to regulate the pay of the navy, by eliminating the 2nd section providing that where any vessel of the united
On May 6, 1844, the Senate voted 13–23 (S 101). Result: failed. By party: Others 0–20, Democrats 13–3. 3 members voted against their own party.
During the 28th Congress (1843–1844), John Tyler was president.
- Yes
- 13
- No
- 23
- Did not vote
- 22
- Date
- May 6, 1844
By party
- Democrats13 yes · 3 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 20 no · 10 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Fairfield D-ME voted no
- Levi Woodbury D-NH voted no
- Daniel Elliott Huger D-SC voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Arthur Pendleton Bagby D-AL
- Ambrose Hundley Sevier D-AR
- William Savin Fulton D-AR
- James Semple D-IL
- Sidney Breese D-IL
- Thomas Hart Benton D-MO
- William Henry Haywood Jr. D-NC
- Charles Gordon Atherton D-NH
- Silas Wright Jr. D-NY
- Benjamin Tappan D-OH
- William Allen D-OH
- Daniel Sturgeon D-PA
- George Mcduffie D-SC
How each senator voted: No
- Jabez Williams Huntington O-CT
- Richard Henry Bayard O-DE
- Thomas Clayton O-DE
- John Macpherson Berrien O-GA
- Albert Smith White O-IN
- John Jordan Crittenden O-KY
- Henry Johnson O-LA
- Isaac Chapman Bates O-MA
- Rufus Choate O-MA
- William Duhurst Merrick O-MD
- George Evans O-ME
- John Fairfield D-ME
- William Woodbridge O-MI
- John Henderson O-MS
- Levi Woodbury D-NH
- Jacob Welsh Miller O-NJ
- James Fowler Simmons O-RI
- Daniel Elliott Huger D-SC
- Ephraim Hubbard Foster O-TN
- Spencer Jarnagin O-TN
- William Cabell Rives O-VA
- William Segar Archer O-VA
- Samuel Shethar Phelps O-VT
Did not vote
- Dixon Hall Lewis D-AL
- William Rufus de Vane King D-AL
- Chester Ashley D-AR
- John Milton Niles D-CT
- Walter Terry Colquitt D-GA
- Edward Allen Hannegan D-IN
- James Turner Morehead O-KY
- Alexander Barrow O-LA
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- Augustus Seymour Porter O-MI
- David Rice Atchison D-MO
- Robert John Walker D-MS
- Willie Person Mangum O-NC
- William Lewis Dayton O-NJ
- Daniel Stevens Dickinson D-NY
- Henry Allen Foster D-NY
- John Adams Dix D-NY
- Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge O-NY
- James Buchanan D-PA
- John Brown Francis O-RI
- William Sprague O-RI
- William Upham O-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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