To add to the committee's amendment in the nature of a substitute for the bill the following: that the President be authorized, by and with the consent of the

On Jan 9, 1847, the House voted 85–120 (HR 576). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 85–40, Others 0–80. 40 members voted against their own party.

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

Yes: 85
No: 120
Did not vote: 32
Date: Jan 9, 1847

By party

Democrats85 yes · 40 no · 24 didn’t vote
Others0 yes · 80 no · 8 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Edmund Strother Dargan D-AL voted no
James La Fayette Cottrell D-AL voted no
George Washington Bonaparte Towns D-GA voted no
Hugh Anderson Haralson D-GA voted no
Shepherd Leffler D-IA voted no
John Wentworth D-IL voted no
Robert Dale Owen D-IN voted no
Thomas Smith D-IN voted no
Charles William Cathcart D-IN voted no
John Wooleston Tibbatts D-KY voted no
William Fell Giles D-MD voted no
Cullen Sawtelle D-ME voted no
Robert Mcclelland D-MI voted no
James Bennett Hunt D-MI voted no
David Settle Reid D-NC voted no
James Cochrane Dobbin D-NC voted no
Joseph E. Edsall D-NJ voted no
John Watson Lawrence D-NY voted no
William Brown Maclay D-NY voted no
Archibald Campbell Niven D-NY voted no
Timothy Jenkins D-NY voted no
Jacob Senewell Yost D-PA voted no
John Ritter D-PA voted no
Richard Brodhead D-PA voted no
David Wilmot D-PA voted no
James Augustus Black D-SC voted no
Richard Franklin Simpson D-SC voted no
Joseph Addison Woodward D-SC voted no
Armistead Burt D-SC voted no
Isaac Edward Holmes D-SC voted no
Andrew Johnson D-TN voted no
Archibald Atkinson D-VA voted no
Edmund Wilcox Hubard D-VA voted no
James Alexander Seddon D-VA voted no
Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA voted no
Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA voted no
Henry Bedinger D-VA voted no
Augustus Alexandria Chapman D-VA voted no
George Washington Hopkins 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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