To suspend the rules and introduce a resolution requiring the clerk to enter the names of absentees in the journal and that he prepare a chart showing the numbe

On Jul 8, 1846, the House voted 71–86. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 56–48, Others 15–38. 48 members voted against their own party.

During the 29th Congress (1845–1846), James K. Polk was president.

Yes: 71
No: 86
Did not vote: 80
Date: Jul 8, 1846

By party

Democrats56 yes · 48 no · 45 didn’t vote
Others15 yes · 38 no · 35 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Edmund Strother Dargan D-AL voted no
Felix Grundy Mcconnell D-AL voted no
Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL voted no
Andrew Kennedy D-IN voted no
John Wooleston Tibbatts D-KY voted no
John Henry Harmanson D-LA voted no
Thomas Johns Perry D-MD voted no
Robert Pinckney Dunlap D-ME voted no
John Smith Chipman D-MI voted no
Robert Whyte Roberts D-MS voted no
Stephen Adams D-MS voted no
Henry Selby Clark D-NC voted no
Moses Norris Jr. D-NH voted no
George Sykes D-NJ voted no
Joseph E. Edsall D-NJ voted no
Archibald Campbell Niven D-NY voted no
Samuel Gordon D-NY voted no
Preston King D-NY voted no
Orville Hungerford D-NY voted no
Timothy Jenkins D-NY voted no
Charles Goodyear D-NY voted no
William Jervis Hough D-NY voted no
Horace Wheaton D-NY voted no
George Oscar Rathbun D-NY voted no
Samuel Stewart Ellsworth D-NY voted no
John De Mott D-NY voted no
Henry St. John D-OH voted no
Jacob Brinkerhoff D-OH voted no
Isaac Parrish D-OH voted no
David Austin Starkweather D-OH voted no
Jacob Senewell Yost D-PA voted no
Richard Brodhead D-PA voted no
Owen D. Leib D-PA voted no
David Wilmot D-PA voted no
William Swan Garvin D-PA voted no
Joseph Addison Woodward D-SC voted no
Armistead Burt D-SC voted no
Isaac Edward Holmes D-SC voted no
Archibald Atkinson D-VA voted no
George Coke Dromgoole D-VA voted no
Edmund Wilcox Hubard D-VA voted no
Shelton Farrar Leake D-VA voted no
James Alexander Seddon D-VA voted no
Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA voted no
Henry Bedinger D-VA voted no
James Mcdowell D-VA voted no
Joseph Johnson D-VA voted no
Paul Dillingham Jr. D-VT voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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