House roll call 126 · 33rd Congress · Apr 17, 1854
To suspend the rules to enable MR. Robbins to report back to the house the findings of the committee of ways and means on S. 122, (10 stat 276, apr. 20, 1854),
On Apr 17, 1854, the House voted 107–39 (S 122). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 75–24, Others 32–15. 24 members voted against their own party.
During the 33rd Congress (1853–1854), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 107
- No
- 39
- Did not vote
- 96
- Date
- Apr 17, 1854
By party
- Democrats75 yes · 24 no · 60 didn’t vote
- Others32 yes · 15 no · 35 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Timothy Pratt D-CT voted no
- Colin Macrae Ingersoll D-CT voted no
- Elijah Webb Chastain D-GA voted no
- Roland Jones D-LA voted no
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD voted no
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC voted no
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC voted no
- George Washington Kittredge D-NH voted no
- Charles Skelton D-NJ voted no
- George Vail D-NJ voted no
- John Wheeler D-NY voted no
- Jared Valentine Peck D-NY voted no
- William Murray D-NY voted no
- Rufus Wheeler Peckham D-NY voted no
- Daniel Terryll Jones D-NY voted no
- John James Taylor D-NY voted no
- George Hastings D-NY voted no
- Alfred Peck Edgerton D-OH voted no
- Augustus Drum D-PA voted no
- George Washington Jones D-TN voted no
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA voted no
- William Osborne Goode D-VA voted no
- John Letcher D-VA voted no
- Fayette Mcmullen D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Russell Smith D-AL
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
- Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR
- Edward Allen Warren D-AR
- James Alexander Mcdougall D-CA
- Milton Slocum Latham D-CA
- Nathan Belcher D-CT
- Augustus Emmett Maxwell D-FL
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- David Jackson Bailey D-GA
- William Barton Wade Dent D-GA
- Bernhart Henn D-IA
- John Parsons Cook O-IA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne O-IL
- John Wentworth D-IL
- Richard Yates O-IL
- James Cameron Allen D-IL
- William Harrison Bissell O-IL
- Smith Miller D-IN
- John Givan Davis D-IN
- Daniel Mace D-IN
- Norman Eddy D-IN
- Benjamin Edwards Grey O-KY
- James Stone Chrisman D-KY
- John Milton Elliott D-KY
- Richard Henry Stanton D-KY
- William Dunbar D-LA
- Theodore Gaillard Hunt O-LA
- Thomas Dawes Eliot O-MA
- Samuel Leonard Crocker O-MA
- John Wiley Edmands O-MA
- Samuel Hurd Walley O-MA
- William Appleton O-MA
- Charles Wentworth Upham O-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks D-MA
- Jacob Shower D-MD
- Joshua Van Sant D-MD
- Samuel Mayall D-ME
- Samuel Page Benson O-ME
- Israel Washburn Jr. O-ME
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller D-ME
- David Stuart D-MI
- Samuel Clark D-MI
- Hestor Lockhart Stevens D-MI
- James Johnson Lindley O-MO
- Mordecai Oliver O-MO
- John Gaines Miller O-MO
- John Smith Phelps D-MO
- Daniel Boone Wright D-MS
- Wiley Pope Harris D-MS
- William Barksdale D-MS
- William Shepperd Ashe D-NC
- Sion Hart Rogers O-NC
- John Kerr Jr. O-NC
- George Washington Morrison D-NH
- Harry Hibbard D-NH
- Nathan Taylor Stratton D-NJ
- Samuel Lilly D-NJ
- Hiram Walbridge D-NY
- William Marcy Tweed D-NY
- Francis Brockholst Cutting D-NY
- Gilbert Dean D-NY
- Charles Hughes D-NY
- Henry Bennett O-NY
- Gerrit Smith O-NY
- Davis Carpenter O-NY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton D-NY
- John Scott Harrison O-OH
- Matthias H. Nichols D-OH
- Andrew Ellison D-OH
- Moses Bledso Corwin O-OH
- John Lampkin Taylor O-OH
- Thomas Ritchey D-OH
- Edson Baldwin Olds D-OH
- William Robinson Sapp O-OH
- Edward Ball O-OH
- Wilson Shannon D-OH
- George Bliss D-OH
- Edward Wade O-OH
- Andrew Stuart D-OH
- John Robbins D-PA
- William Henry Witte D-PA
- John Mcnair D-PA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
- Ner Middleswarth O-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA
- William Henry Kurtz D-PA
- John Littleton Dawson D-PA
- Thomas Marshall Howe O-PA
- Thomas Davis D-RI
- Benjamin Babock Thurston D-RI
- William Aiken D-SC
- Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC
- William Waters Boyce D-SC
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN
- Robert Malone Bugg O-TN
- Emerson Etheridge O-TN
- George Washington Smyth D-TX
- Paulus Powell D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-VA
- Zedekiah Kidwell D-VA
- John Fryall Snodgrass D-VA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA
- Ben C. Eastman D-WI
- John B. Macy D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- James Timothy Pratt D-CT
- Colin Macrae Ingersoll D-CT
- Elijah Webb Chastain D-GA
- James Knox O-IL
- Samuel Wilson Parker O-IN
- Leander Martin Cox O-KY
- Roland Jones D-LA
- Edward Dickinson O-MA
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC
- Richard Clauselle Puryear O-NC
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- George Washington Kittredge D-NH
- Charles Skelton D-NJ
- George Vail D-NJ
- John Wheeler D-NY
- Jared Valentine Peck D-NY
- William Murray D-NY
- Russell Sage O-NY
- Rufus Wheeler Peckham D-NY
- Daniel Terryll Jones D-NY
- John James Taylor D-NY
- George Hastings D-NY
- Solomon George Haven O-NY
- Alfred Peck Edgerton D-OH
- Aaron Harlan O-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
- Isaac Ellmaker Hiester O-PA
- Augustus Drum D-PA
- David Ritchie O-PA
- Nathaniel Green Taylor O-TN
- William Cullom O-TN
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer O-TN
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- John Letcher D-VA
- Fayette Mcmullen D-VA
- Andrew Tracy O-VT
Did not vote
- Philip Phillips D-AL
- James Abercrombie O-AL
- Sampson Willis Harris D-AL
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- James Ferguson Dowdell D-AL
- Origen Storrs Seymour D-CT
- George Read Riddle D-DE
- Junius Hillyer D-GA
- David Addison Reese O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens O-GA
- Jesse Olds Norton O-IL
- William Alexander Richardson D-IL
- Willis Allen D-IL
- William Hayden English D-IN
- Cyrus Livingston Dunham D-IN
- James Henry Lane D-IN
- Thomas Andrews Hendricks D-IN
- Ebenezer Mattoon Chamberlain D-IN
- Andrew Jackson Harlan D-IN
- Linn Boyd D-KY
- Francis Marion Bristow O-KY
- Presley Underwood Ewing O-KY
- Clement Sidney Hill O-KY
- William Preston O-KY
- John Cabell Breckinridge D-KY
- John Perkins Jr. D-LA
- Zeno Scudder O-MA
- Tappan Wentworth O-MA
- Alexander De Witt O-MA
- John Zacheus Goodrich O-MA
- John Rankin Franklin O-MD
- Henry May D-MD
- Augustus Rhodes Sollers O-MD
- Moses Macdonald D-ME
- Ephraim Wilder Farley O-ME
- David Addison Noble D-MI
- Thomas Hart Benton D-MO
- Alfred William Lamb D-MO
- Samuel Caruthers O-MO
- William Taylor Sullivan Barry D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC
- Alexander Cumming McWhorter Pennington O-NJ
- James Maurice D-NY
- Thomas William Cumming D-NY
- Michael Walsh D-NY
- William Adams Walker D-NY
- Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook D-NY
- Isaac Teller O-NY
- George Abel Simmons O-NY
- Bishop Perkins D-NY
- Peter Rowe D-NY
- George William Chase O-NY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson O-NY
- Henry Charles Goodwin O-NY
- Caleb Lyon I-NY
- Edwin Barber Morgan O-NY
- Andrew Oliver D-NY
- Azariah Boody O-NY
- Benjamin Pringle O-NY
- Thomas Thorn Flagler O-NY
- David Tiernan Disney D-OH
- Lewis Davis Campbell O-OH
- Frederick William Green D-OH
- William Dell Lindsley D-OH
- Harvey Hull Johnson D-OH
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA
- Joseph Ripley Chandler O-PA
- William Everhart O-PA
- Henry Augustus Muhlenberg D-PA
- Christian Markle Straub D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- Asa Packer D-PA
- James Gamble D-PA
- Samuel Lyon Russell O-PA
- John Mcculloch O-PA
- Michael Carver Trout D-PA
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis D-PA
- John Dick O-PA
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- Preston Smith Brooks D-SC
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- Brookins Campbell D-TN
- William Montgomery Churchwell D-TN
- Charles Ready O-TN
- Frederick Perry Stanton D-TN
- Peter Hansbrough Bell D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA
- John Singleton Millson D-VA
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- William Smith D-VA
- Charles Swearinger Lewis D-VA
- James Meacham O-VT
- Alvah Sabin O-VT
- Daniel Wells Jr. D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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