To suspend rules and introduce a resolution instructing the committee on ways and means to report a joint bill providing for duty free importation of iron for r

On Apr 12, 1852, the House voted 54–98. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 31–54, Others 23–44. 31 members voted against their own party.

During the 32nd Congress (1851–1852), Millard Fillmore was president.

Yes: 54
No: 98
Did not vote: 87
Date: Apr 12, 1852

By party

Democrats31 yes · 54 no · 44 didn’t vote
Others23 yes · 44 no · 43 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

John Bragg D-AL voted yes
Robert Ward Johnson D-AR voted yes
Joseph Walker Mccorkle D-CA voted yes
Bernhart Henn D-IA voted yes
Lincoln Clark D-IA voted yes
Richard Sheppard Molony D-IL voted yes
James Lockhart D-IN voted yes
Thomas Andrews Hendricks D-IN voted yes
Willis Arnold Gorman D-IN voted yes
John Givan Davis D-IN voted yes
Daniel Mace D-IN voted yes
Graham Newell Fitch D-IN voted yes
James W. Stone D-KY voted yes
Louis St. Martin D-LA voted yes
Alexander Gordon Penn D-LA voted yes
Robert Rantoul Jr. D-MA voted yes
Ephraim Knight Smart D-ME voted yes
Willard Preble Hall D-MO voted yes
Abraham Watkins Venable D-NC voted yes
Joseph Cable D-OH voted yes
Daniel Wallace D-SC voted yes
James Lawrence Orr D-SC voted yes
Joseph Addison Woodward D-SC voted yes
John Mcqueen D-SC voted yes
William Aiken D-SC voted yes
Frederick Perry Stanton D-TN voted yes
Richardson Scurry D-TX voted yes
Volney Erskine Howard D-TX voted yes
Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA voted yes
Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA voted yes
Ben C. Eastman D-WI voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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