House roll call 58 · 31st Congress · Jan 29, 1850
To table a resolution providing that the committee on mileage compute the mileage of members of the house from their residence to the seat of government, based
On Jan 29, 1850, the House voted 57–132. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 39–60, Others 18–72. 39 members voted against their own party.
During the 31st Congress (1849–1850), Zachary Taylor was president.
- Yes
- 57
- No
- 132
- Did not vote
- 54
- Date
- Jan 29, 1850
By party
- Others18 yes · 72 no · 33 didn’t vote
- Democrats39 yes · 60 no · 20 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Sampson Willis Harris D-AL voted yes
- David Hubbard D-AL voted yes
- Robert Ward Johnson D-AR voted yes
- Hugh Anderson Haralson D-GA voted yes
- William Thompson D-IA voted yes
- Shepherd Leffler D-IA voted yes
- William Harrison Bissell D-IL voted yes
- John Alexander Mcclernand D-IL voted yes
- Timothy Roberts Young D-IL voted yes
- William John Brown D-IN voted yes
- Willis Arnold Gorman D-IN voted yes
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted yes
- Linn Boyd D-KY voted yes
- John Calvin Mason D-KY voted yes
- Richard Henry Stanton D-KY voted yes
- Emile La Sére D-LA voted yes
- Isaac Edward Morse D-LA voted yes
- Elbridge Gerry D-ME voted yes
- Alexander Woodruff Buel D-MI voted yes
- James Stephen Green D-MO voted yes
- John Smith Phelps D-MO voted yes
- Jacob Thompson D-MS voted yes
- Winfield Scott Featherston D-MS voted yes
- William Mcwillie D-MS voted yes
- Albert Gallatin Brown D-MS voted yes
- William Shepperd Ashe D-NC voted yes
- Emery Davis Potter D-OH voted yes
- Armistead Burt D-SC voted yes
- Isaac Edward Holmes D-SC voted yes
- John Houston Savage D-TN voted yes
- George Washington Jones D-TN voted yes
- James Houston Thomas D-TN voted yes
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted yes
- Frederick Perry Stanton D-TN voted yes
- David Spangler Kaufman D-TX voted yes
- Volney Erskine Howard D-TX voted yes
- Alexander Richmond Holladay D-VA voted yes
- Fayette Mcmullen D-VA voted yes
- James Duane Doty D-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Henry Washington Hilliard O-AL
- Sampson Willis Harris D-AL
- David Hubbard D-AL
- Robert Ward Johnson D-AR
- Hugh Anderson Haralson D-GA
- William Thompson D-IA
- Shepherd Leffler D-IA
- William Harrison Bissell D-IL
- John Alexander Mcclernand D-IL
- Timothy Roberts Young D-IL
- William John Brown D-IN
- Willis Arnold Gorman D-IN
- Edward Wilson Mcgaughey O-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Linn Boyd D-KY
- James Leeper Johnson O-KY
- Finis Ewing Mclean O-KY
- John Burton Thompson O-KY
- Daniel Breck O-KY
- Humphrey Marshall O-KY
- John Calvin Mason D-KY
- Richard Henry Stanton D-KY
- Emile La Sére D-LA
- Isaac Edward Morse D-LA
- George Ashmun O-MA
- Elbridge Gerry D-ME
- Alexander Woodruff Buel D-MI
- James Stephen Green D-MO
- John Smith Phelps D-MO
- Jacob Thompson D-MS
- Winfield Scott Featherston D-MS
- William Mcwillie D-MS
- Albert Gallatin Brown D-MS
- William Shepperd Ashe D-NC
- David Outlaw O-NC
- Herman Day Gould O-NY
- George Rex Andrews O-NY
- John Richardson Thurman O-NY
- William Terry Jackson O-NY
- Moses Bledso Corwin O-OH
- Emery Davis Potter D-OH
- Samuel Finley Vinton O-OH
- Joseph Ripley Chandler O-PA
- Nathan Fellows Dixon O-RI
- Armistead Burt D-SC
- Isaac Edward Holmes D-SC
- John Houston Savage D-TN
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- James Houston Thomas D-TN
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Frederick Perry Stanton D-TN
- Christopher Harris Williams O-TN
- David Spangler Kaufman D-TX
- Volney Erskine Howard D-TX
- Alexander Richmond Holladay D-VA
- Fayette Mcmullen D-VA
- James Duane Doty D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- William Jeffreys Alston O-AL
- Samuel Williams Inge D-AL
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
- Franklin Welsh Bowdon D-AL
- Loren Pinckney Waldo D-CT
- Walter Booth O-CT
- Chauncey Fitch Cleveland D-CT
- Thomas Belden Butler O-CT
- John Wallace Houston O-DE
- Edward Carrington Cabell O-FL
- Marshall Johnson Wellborn D-GA
- Allen Ferdinand Owen O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens O-GA
- Robert Augustus Toombs O-GA
- William Alexander Richardson D-IL
- Edward Dickinson Baker O-IL
- Nathaniel Albertson D-IN
- Cyrus Livingston Dunham D-IN
- John Larne Robinson D-IN
- George Washington Julian O-IN
- Graham Newell Fitch D-IN
- Andrew Jackson Harlan D-IN
- George Alfred Caldwell D-KY
- Daniel Putnam King O-MA
- James Henry Duncan O-MA
- Julius Rockwell O-MA
- Horace Mann O-MA
- Orin Fowler O-MA
- Joseph Grinnell O-MA
- Richard Johns Bowie O-MD
- Edward Hammond D-MD
- Robert Milligan Mclane D-MD
- Alexander Evans O-MD
- Nathaniel Swett Littlefield D-ME
- John Otis O-ME
- Rufus King Goodenow O-ME
- Cullen Sawtelle D-ME
- Charles Stetson D-ME
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller D-ME
- William Sprague O-MI
- Kinsley Scott Bingham D-MI
- Joseph Pearson Caldwell O-NC
- Edmund Deberry O-NC
- Augustine Henry Shepperd O-NC
- Abraham Watkins Venable D-NC
- John Reeves Jones Daniel D-NC
- Charles Hazen Peaslee D-NH
- James Wilson O-NH
- Harry Hibbard D-NH
- Andrew Kessler Hay O-NJ
- Isaac Wildrick D-NJ
- John Van Dyke O-NJ
- James Gore King O-NJ
- John Alsop King O-NY
- Walter Underhill O-NY
- George Briggs O-NY
- James Brooks O-NY
- William Nelson O-NY
- Ransom Halloway O-NY
- Thomas Mckissock O-NY
- Peter Henry Silvester O-NY
- Hugh White O-NY
- Henry Porteous Alexander O-NY
- Preston King O-NY
- Charles Ezra Clarke O-NY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson O-NY
- Hiram Walden D-NY
- Daniel Gott O-NY
- Harmon Sweatland Conger O-NY
- Abraham Maus Schermerhorn O-NY
- David Rumsey O-NY
- Elijah Risley O-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Spaulding O-NY
- Harvey Putnam O-NY
- Lorenzo Burrows O-NY
- David Tiernan Disney D-OH
- Lewis Davis Campbell O-OH
- Amos Eastman Wood D-OH
- Jonathan David Morris D-OH
- Edson Baldwin Olds D-OH
- Charles Sweetser D-OH
- John Krepps Miller D-OH
- Nathan Evans O-OH
- Moses Hoagland D-OH
- Joseph Cable D-OH
- David Kellogg Cartter D-OH
- John Crowell O-OH
- Joseph Mosley Root O-OH
- Henry Dunning Moore O-PA
- John Robbins D-PA
- John Freedley O-PA
- Thomas Ross D-PA
- Jesse Column Dickey O-PA
- William Strong D-PA
- Milo Melankthon Dimmick D-PA
- Chester Pierce Butler O-PA
- David Wilmot D-PA
- Joseph Casey O-PA
- Charles Wesley Pitman O-PA
- James Xavier Mclanahan D-PA
- Samuel Calvin O-PA
- Andrew Jackson Ogle O-PA
- Job Mann D-PA
- Robert Rentoul Reed O-PA
- John W. Howe O-PA
- James Thompson D-PA
- George Gordon King O-RI
- Daniel Wallace D-SC
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- Joseph Addison Woodward D-SC
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- William Ferguson Colcock D-SC
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- Albert Galiton Watkins O-TN
- Josiah McNair Anderson O-TN
- Andrew Ewing D-TN
- John Singleton Millson D-VA
- Thomas Hamlet Averett D-VA
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- Paulus Powell D-VA
- James Alexander Seddon D-VA
- Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA
- Jeremiah Morton O-VA
- Richard Parker D-VA
- James Mcdowell D-VA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA
- Thomas Sherwood Haymond O-VA
- William Henry O-VT
- William Hebard O-VT
- James Meacham O-VT
- Lucius Benedict Peck D-VT
- Charles Durkee O-WI
Did not vote
- Edward Gilbert D-CA
- George Washington Wright I-CA
- Joseph Webber Jackson D-GA
- Thomas Butler King O-GA
- Thomas C. Hackett D-GA
- Howell Cobb D-GA
- Daniel Fry Miller O-IA
- John Wentworth D-IL
- Thomas Langrell Harris D-IL
- Charles Slaughter Morehead O-KY
- Charles Magill Conrad O-LA
- Henry Adams Bullard O-LA
- Alexander Gordon Penn D-LA
- John Henry Harmanson D-LA
- Robert Charles Winthrop O-MA
- Samuel Atkins Eliot O-MA
- Charles Allen O-MA
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- John Bozman Kerr O-MD
- James Butler Bowlin D-MO
- William Van Ness Bay D-MO
- Willard Preble Hall D-MO
- Thomas Lanier Clingman O-NC
- Edward Stanly O-NC
- Amos Tuck O-NH
- George Washington Morrison D-NH
- William Augustus Newell O-NJ
- David Alexander Bokee O-NY
- Jonas Phillips Phoenix O-NY
- Gideon Reynolds O-NY
- John Lawrence Schoolcraft O-NY
- Henry Bennett O-NY
- William Duer O-NY
- William Augustus Sackett O-NY
- Robert Lawson Rose O-NY
- Robert Cumming Schenck O-OH
- John Bell O-OH
- John Lampkin Taylor O-OH
- William Augustus Whittlesey D-OH
- William Forrest Hunter O-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
- Lewis Charles Levin O-PA
- Thaddeus Stevens O-PA
- John Brisbin D-PA
- Henry Nes O-PA
- Joel Buchanan Danner D-PA
- Moses Hampton O-PA
- Alfred Gilmore D-PA
- Meredith Poindexter Gentry O-TN
- Richard Kidder Meade D-VA
- James Madison Hite Beale D-VA
- Alexander Newman D-VA
- George Perkins Marsh O-VT
- Orasmus Cole O-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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