Senate roll call 420 · 31st Congress · Feb 21, 1851
To table the bill S. 375, providing for the relief of the east tennessee and georgia railroad.
On Feb 21, 1851, the Senate voted 11–28 (S 375). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 3–20, Others 8–8. 3 members voted against their own party.
During the 31st Congress (1849–1850), Millard Fillmore was president.
- Yes
- 11
- No
- 28
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Feb 21, 1851
By party
- Democrats3 yes · 20 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Others8 yes · 8 no · 14 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Alpheus Felch D-MI voted yes
- Lewis Cass D-MI voted yes
- Daniel Sturgeon D-PA voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Truman Smith O-CT
- Presley Spruance O-DE
- Henry Clay O-KY
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- Thomas George Pratt O-MD
- Alpheus Felch D-MI
- Lewis Cass D-MI
- Jacob Welsh Miller O-NJ
- William Lewis Dayton O-NJ
- Thomas Ewing O-OH
- Daniel Sturgeon D-PA
How each senator voted: No
- 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
- John Macpherson Berrien O-GA
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- Augustus Caesar Dodge D-IA
- George Wallace Jones D-IA
- James Shields D-IL
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- James Whitcomb D-IN
- Jesse David Bright D-IN
- David Rice Atchison D-MO
- Jefferson Davis D-MS
- George Edmund Badger O-NC
- John Parker Hale O-NH
- Daniel Stevens Dickinson D-NY
- William Henry Seward O-NY
- John Hopkins Clarke O-RI
- Andrew Pickens Butler D-SC
- Hopkins Lacy Turney D-TN
- John Bell O-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk D-TX
- James Murray Mason D-VA
- Henry Dodge D-WI
- Isaac Pigeon Walker D-WI
Did not vote
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL
- John Charles Frémont D-CA
- William McKendree Gwin D-CA
- John Wales O-DE
- Jackson Morton O-FL
- Joseph Rogers Underwood O-KY
- Pierre Soulé D-LA
- Solomon Weathersbee Downs D-LA
- Daniel Webster O-MA
- John Davis O-MA
- Robert Charles Winthrop O-MA
- Robert Rantoul Jr. D-MA
- David Stewart O-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin D-ME
- James Ware Bradbury D-ME
- Thomas Hart Benton D-MO
- Henry Stuart Foote D-MS
- Willie Person Mangum O-NC
- Moses Norris Jr. D-NH
- Salmon Portland Chase O-OH
- Thomas Corwin O-OH
- James Cooper O-PA
- Albert Collins Greene O-RI
- Franklin Harper Elmore D-SC
- John Caldwell Calhoun D-SC
- Robert Barnwell Rhett D-SC
- Robert Woodward Barnwell D-SC
- Samuel Houston D-TX
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA
- Samuel Shethar Phelps O-VT
- William Upham O-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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