Senate roll call 99 · 28th Congress · May 16, 1844
To reconsider the vote agreeing to resolution removing injunction of secrecy on all documents and messages for publication from the treaty of annexation of texa
On May 16, 1844, the Senate voted 18–26. Result: failed. By party: Others 4–20, Democrats 14–6. 6 members voted against their own party.
During the 28th Congress (1843–1844), John Tyler was president.
- Yes
- 18
- No
- 26
- Did not vote
- 14
- Date
- May 16, 1844
By party
- Democrats14 yes · 6 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Others4 yes · 20 no · 6 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Fairfield D-ME voted no
- Thomas Hart Benton D-MO voted no
- Charles Gordon Atherton D-NH voted no
- Silas Wright Jr. D-NY voted no
- Benjamin Tappan D-OH voted no
- William Allen D-OH 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
- John Macpherson Berrien O-GA
- Walter Terry Colquitt D-GA
- James Semple D-IL
- Sidney Breese D-IL
- John Henderson O-MS
- Robert John Walker D-MS
- William Henry Haywood Jr. D-NC
- Levi Woodbury D-NH
- Daniel Sturgeon D-PA
- James Buchanan 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
- Albert Smith White O-IN
- James Turner Morehead O-KY
- John Jordan Crittenden O-KY
- Henry Johnson O-LA
- Isaac Chapman Bates O-MA
- Rufus Choate O-MA
- George Evans O-ME
- John Fairfield D-ME
- Augustus Seymour Porter O-MI
- William Woodbridge O-MI
- Thomas Hart Benton D-MO
- Willie Person Mangum O-NC
- Charles Gordon Atherton D-NH
- Jacob Welsh Miller O-NJ
- William Lewis Dayton O-NJ
- Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge O-NY
- Silas Wright Jr. D-NY
- Benjamin Tappan D-OH
- William Allen D-OH
- 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
- Edward Allen Hannegan D-IN
- Alexander Barrow O-LA
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- William Duhurst Merrick O-MD
- David Rice Atchison D-MO
- Daniel Stevens Dickinson D-NY
- Henry Allen Foster D-NY
- John Adams Dix D-NY
- William Sprague O-RI
- Ephraim Hubbard Foster O-TN
- William Upham O-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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