Senate roll call 90 · 28th Congress · May 14, 1844
To amend the resolution making the treaty of annexation of texas the special order, in the executive session for, thursday next at two o'clock instead of one o'
On May 14, 1844, the Senate voted 20–24. Result: failed. By party: Others 3–23, Democrats 17–1. 1 member voted against their own party.
During the 28th Congress (1843–1844), John Tyler was president.
- Yes
- 20
- No
- 24
- Did not vote
- 14
- Date
- May 14, 1844
By party
- Democrats17 yes · 1 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 23 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Henry Haywood Jr. D-NC voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Arthur Pendleton Bagby D-AL
- Dixon Hall Lewis D-AL
- Ambrose Hundley Sevier D-AR
- William Savin Fulton D-AR
- Walter Terry Colquitt D-GA
- James Semple D-IL
- Sidney Breese D-IL
- Edward Allen Hannegan D-IN
- John Fairfield D-ME
- David Rice Atchison D-MO
- Thomas Hart Benton D-MO
- John Henderson O-MS
- Robert John Walker D-MS
- Charles Gordon Atherton D-NH
- William Allen D-OH
- Daniel Sturgeon D-PA
- Daniel Elliott Huger D-SC
- George Mcduffie D-SC
- William Cabell Rives O-VA
- William Segar Archer O-VA
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
- James Turner Morehead O-KY
- John Jordan Crittenden O-KY
- Alexander Barrow O-LA
- Henry Johnson O-LA
- Isaac Chapman Bates O-MA
- Rufus Choate O-MA
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- George Evans O-ME
- Augustus Seymour Porter O-MI
- William Woodbridge O-MI
- William Henry Haywood Jr. D-NC
- Willie Person Mangum O-NC
- Jacob Welsh Miller O-NJ
- William Lewis Dayton O-NJ
- Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge O-NY
- James Fowler Simmons O-RI
- John Brown Francis O-RI
- Spencer Jarnagin O-TN
- Samuel Shethar Phelps O-VT
Did not vote
- William Rufus de Vane King D-AL
- Chester Ashley D-AR
- John Milton Niles D-CT
- William Duhurst Merrick O-MD
- Levi Woodbury D-NH
- Daniel Stevens Dickinson D-NY
- Henry Allen Foster D-NY
- John Adams Dix D-NY
- Silas Wright Jr. D-NY
- Benjamin Tappan D-OH
- James Buchanan D-PA
- William Sprague O-RI
- Ephraim Hubbard Foster O-TN
- William Upham O-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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