Senate roll call 324 · 31st Congress · Sep 24, 1850
To amend bill S. 343, making temporary provision for the working and discovery of gold mines and placers in calif., and preserving order in the goldmine distric
On Sep 24, 1850, the Senate voted 12–24 (S 343). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 3–19, Others 9–5. 3 members voted against their own party.
During the 31st Congress (1849–1850), Millard Fillmore was president.
- Yes
- 12
- No
- 24
- Did not vote
- 34
- Date
- Sep 24, 1850
By party
- Democrats3 yes · 19 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Others9 yes · 5 no · 16 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Moses Norris Jr. D-NH voted yes
- Hopkins Lacy Turney D-TN voted yes
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Truman Smith O-CT
- John Wales O-DE
- Presley Spruance O-DE
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- Joseph Rogers Underwood O-KY
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- Moses Norris Jr. D-NH
- William Lewis Dayton O-NJ
- Thomas Ewing O-OH
- Hopkins Lacy Turney D-TN
- John Bell O-TN
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA
How each senator voted: No
- John Charles Frémont D-CA
- William McKendree Gwin D-CA
- Augustus Caesar Dodge D-IA
- George Wallace Jones D-IA
- James Shields D-IL
- Pierre Soulé D-LA
- Solomon Weathersbee Downs D-LA
- Robert Charles Winthrop O-MA
- Alpheus Felch D-MI
- Lewis Cass D-MI
- David Rice Atchison D-MO
- Thomas Hart Benton D-MO
- Henry Stuart Foote D-MS
- Jefferson Davis D-MS
- John Parker Hale O-NH
- Daniel Stevens Dickinson D-NY
- William Henry Seward O-NY
- Salmon Portland Chase O-OH
- Daniel Sturgeon D-PA
- James Cooper O-PA
- Samuel Houston D-TX
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk D-TX
- Henry Dodge D-WI
- Isaac Pigeon Walker D-WI
Did not vote
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL
- Jeremiah Clemens D-AL
- William Rufus de Vane King D-AL
- Solon Borland D-AR
- William King Sebastian D-AR
- Roger Sherman Baldwin O-CT
- David Levy Yulee D-FL
- Jackson Morton O-FL
- John Macpherson Berrien O-GA
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- James Whitcomb D-IN
- Jesse David Bright D-IN
- Henry Clay O-KY
- Daniel Webster O-MA
- John Davis O-MA
- Robert Rantoul Jr. D-MA
- David Stewart O-MD
- Thomas George Pratt O-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin D-ME
- James Ware Bradbury D-ME
- George Edmund Badger O-NC
- Willie Person Mangum O-NC
- Jacob Welsh Miller O-NJ
- Thomas Corwin O-OH
- Albert Collins Greene O-RI
- John Hopkins Clarke O-RI
- Andrew Pickens Butler D-SC
- Franklin Harper Elmore D-SC
- John Caldwell Calhoun D-SC
- Robert Barnwell Rhett D-SC
- Robert Woodward Barnwell D-SC
- James Murray Mason D-VA
- Samuel Shethar Phelps O-VT
- William Upham O-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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