That when the house adjourns today it be to meet again on thrusday next.

On May 31, 1852, the House voted 65–77. Result: failed. By party: Others 33–41, Democrats 32–36. 32 members voted against their own party.

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

Yes: 65
No: 77
Did not vote: 97
Date: May 31, 1852

By party

Democrats32 yes · 36 no · 61 didn’t vote
Others33 yes · 41 no · 36 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Bernhart Henn D-IA voted yes
Lincoln Clark D-IA voted yes
Willis Arnold Gorman D-IN voted yes
Graham Newell Fitch D-IN voted yes
Edward Hammond D-MD voted yes
Moses Macdonald D-ME voted yes
Ephraim Knight Smart D-ME voted yes
Abraham Watkins Venable D-NC voted yes
Charles Hazen Peaslee D-NH voted yes
Harry Hibbard D-NH voted yes
Isaac Wildrick D-NJ voted yes
John Gelston Floyd D-NY voted yes
William W. Snow D-NY voted yes
Thomas Y. Howe Jr. D-NY voted yes
Edson Baldwin Olds D-OH voted yes
David Kellogg Cartter D-OH voted yes
Thomas Birch Florence D-PA voted yes
John Robbins D-PA voted yes
Thomas Ross D-PA voted yes
Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA voted yes
Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA voted yes
Benjamin Babock Thurston D-RI voted yes
James Lawrence Orr D-SC voted yes
George Washington Jones D-TN voted yes
Isham Green Harris D-TN voted yes
Richard Kidder Meade D-VA voted yes
Thomas Hamlet Averett D-VA voted yes
Paulus Powell D-VA voted yes
Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA voted yes
Alexander Richmond Holladay 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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