House roll call 383 · 33rd Congress · Jul 10, 1854
To pass H.J.RES. 30 (10 stat 594, july 20, 1854) fixing the rate of pay of legislative employees and prohibiting the allowance of extra compensation.
On Jul 10, 1854, the House voted 120–52 (HJR 30). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 77–41, Others 43–11. 41 members voted against their own party.
During the 33rd Congress (1853–1854), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 120
- No
- 52
- Did not vote
- 70
- Date
- Jul 10, 1854
By party
- Democrats77 yes · 41 no · 41 didn’t vote
- Others43 yes · 11 no · 28 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Philip Phillips D-AL voted no
- George Smith Houston D-AL voted no
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL voted no
- James Timothy Pratt D-CT voted no
- Origen Storrs Seymour D-CT voted no
- Elijah Webb Chastain D-GA voted no
- William Alexander Richardson D-IL voted no
- William Hayden English D-IN voted no
- John Givan Davis D-IN voted no
- John Cabell Breckinridge D-KY voted no
- John Perkins Jr. D-LA voted no
- Roland Jones D-LA voted no
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller D-ME voted no
- John Smith Phelps D-MO voted no
- Daniel Boone Wright D-MS voted no
- Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC voted no
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC voted no
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC voted no
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC voted no
- George Washington Kittredge D-NH voted no
- George Washington Morrison D-NH voted no
- Harry Hibbard D-NH voted no
- Samuel Lilly D-NJ voted no
- Michael Walsh D-NY voted no
- William Murray D-NY voted no
- Daniel Terryll Jones D-NY voted no
- John James Taylor D-NY voted no
- George Hastings D-NY voted no
- Andrew Ellison D-OH voted no
- Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA voted no
- Michael Carver Trout D-PA voted no
- John Mcqueen D-SC voted no
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC voted no
- William Waters Boyce D-SC voted no
- George Washington Jones D-TN voted no
- John Singleton Millson D-VA voted no
- William Osborne Goode D-VA voted no
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA voted no
- John Letcher D-VA voted no
- Fayette Mcmullen D-VA voted no
- Ben C. Eastman D-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Abercrombie O-AL
- Sampson Willis Harris D-AL
- Alfred Burton Greenwood 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
- William Barton Wade Dent D-GA
- Junius Hillyer D-GA
- David Addison Reese O-GA
- Bernhart Henn D-IA
- John Parsons Cook O-IA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne O-IL
- John Wentworth D-IL
- Jesse Olds Norton O-IL
- Richard Yates O-IL
- James Cameron Allen D-IL
- Willis Allen D-IL
- Thomas Andrews Hendricks D-IN
- Daniel Mace D-IN
- Norman Eddy D-IN
- Ebenezer Mattoon Chamberlain D-IN
- James Stone Chrisman D-KY
- Clement Sidney Hill O-KY
- William Preston O-KY
- Richard Henry Stanton D-KY
- Thomas Dawes Eliot 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
- Tappan Wentworth O-MA
- Edward Dickinson O-MA
- John Rankin Franklin O-MD
- Jacob Shower D-MD
- Joshua Van Sant D-MD
- Henry May D-MD
- Samuel Mayall D-ME
- Ephraim Wilder Farley O-ME
- Samuel Page Benson O-ME
- Israel Washburn Jr. O-ME
- David Stuart D-MI
- David Addison Noble D-MI
- Samuel Clark D-MI
- Hestor Lockhart Stevens D-MI
- Alfred William Lamb D-MO
- Mordecai Oliver O-MO
- Samuel Caruthers O-MO
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Wiley Pope Harris D-MS
- William Shepperd Ashe D-NC
- Sion Hart Rogers O-NC
- John Kerr Jr. O-NC
- Nathan Taylor Stratton D-NJ
- George Vail D-NJ
- James Maurice D-NY
- Thomas William Cumming D-NY
- Hiram Walbridge D-NY
- William Marcy Tweed D-NY
- John Wheeler D-NY
- Francis Brockholst Cutting D-NY
- Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook D-NY
- Charles Hughes D-NY
- Peter Rowe D-NY
- Henry Bennett O-NY
- Gerrit Smith O-NY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton D-NY
- David Tiernan Disney D-OH
- John Scott Harrison O-OH
- Lewis Davis Campbell O-OH
- Matthias H. Nichols D-OH
- Alfred Peck Edgerton D-OH
- Moses Bledso Corwin O-OH
- Frederick William Green D-OH
- John Lampkin Taylor O-OH
- Thomas Ritchey D-OH
- Edson Baldwin Olds D-OH
- William Dell Lindsley D-OH
- Harvey Hull Johnson D-OH
- William Robinson Sapp O-OH
- Wilson Shannon D-OH
- George Bliss D-OH
- Edward Wade O-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
- Andrew Stuart D-OH
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA
- Joseph Ripley Chandler O-PA
- John Robbins D-PA
- John Mcnair D-PA
- William Everhart O-PA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
- Ner Middleswarth O-PA
- Christian Markle Straub D-PA
- Asa Packer D-PA
- William Henry Kurtz D-PA
- Samuel Lyon Russell O-PA
- John Mcculloch O-PA
- John Littleton Dawson D-PA
- David Ritchie O-PA
- Thomas Marshall Howe O-PA
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis D-PA
- John Dick O-PA
- Thomas Davis D-RI
- William Aiken D-SC
- Preston Smith Brooks D-SC
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN
- Charles Ready O-TN
- Robert Malone Bugg O-TN
- Frederick Perry Stanton D-TN
- George Washington Smyth D-TX
- Peter Hansbrough Bell D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA
- Paulus Powell D-VA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA
- Alvah Sabin O-VT
- Daniel Wells Jr. D-WI
- John B. Macy D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Philip Phillips D-AL
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
- James Timothy Pratt D-CT
- Origen Storrs Seymour D-CT
- Elijah Webb Chastain D-GA
- James Knox O-IL
- William Alexander Richardson D-IL
- William Hayden English D-IN
- Samuel Wilson Parker O-IN
- John Givan Davis D-IN
- John Cabell Breckinridge D-KY
- Leander Martin Cox O-KY
- John Perkins Jr. D-LA
- Roland Jones D-LA
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller D-ME
- John Smith Phelps D-MO
- Daniel Boone Wright D-MS
- Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC
- Richard Clauselle Puryear O-NC
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- George Washington Kittredge D-NH
- George Washington Morrison D-NH
- Harry Hibbard D-NH
- Samuel Lilly D-NJ
- Michael Walsh D-NY
- William Murray D-NY
- Russell Sage O-NY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson O-NY
- Daniel Terryll Jones D-NY
- John James Taylor D-NY
- George Hastings D-NY
- Davis Carpenter O-NY
- Thomas Thorn Flagler O-NY
- Solomon George Haven O-NY
- Andrew Ellison D-OH
- Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA
- Michael Carver Trout D-PA
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- William Waters Boyce D-SC
- Nathaniel Green Taylor O-TN
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer O-TN
- John Singleton Millson D-VA
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- John Letcher D-VA
- Fayette Mcmullen D-VA
- Ben C. Eastman D-WI
Did not vote
- William Russell Smith D-AL
- James Ferguson Dowdell D-AL
- Edward Allen Warren D-AR
- Colin Macrae Ingersoll D-CT
- George Read Riddle D-DE
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- David Jackson Bailey D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens O-GA
- William Harrison Bissell O-IL
- Smith Miller D-IN
- Cyrus Livingston Dunham D-IN
- James Henry Lane D-IN
- Andrew Jackson Harlan D-IN
- Linn Boyd D-KY
- Benjamin Edwards Grey O-KY
- Francis Marion Bristow O-KY
- Presley Underwood Ewing O-KY
- John Milton Elliott D-KY
- William Dunbar D-LA
- Theodore Gaillard Hunt O-LA
- Zeno Scudder O-MA
- Samuel Leonard Crocker O-MA
- Alexander De Witt O-MA
- John Zacheus Goodrich O-MA
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Augustus Rhodes Sollers O-MD
- Moses Macdonald D-ME
- Thomas Hart Benton D-MO
- James Johnson Lindley O-MO
- John Gaines Miller O-MO
- William Taylor Sullivan Barry D-MS
- William Barksdale D-MS
- Charles Skelton D-NJ
- Alexander Cumming McWhorter Pennington O-NJ
- William Adams Walker D-NY
- Jared Valentine Peck D-NY
- Gilbert Dean D-NY
- Isaac Teller O-NY
- Rufus Wheeler Peckham D-NY
- George Abel Simmons O-NY
- Bishop Perkins D-NY
- George William Chase 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
- Aaron Harlan O-OH
- Edward Ball O-OH
- William Henry Witte D-PA
- Henry Augustus Muhlenberg D-PA
- Isaac Ellmaker Hiester O-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- James Gamble D-PA
- Augustus Drum D-PA
- Benjamin Babock Thurston D-RI
- Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC
- Brookins Campbell D-TN
- William Montgomery Churchwell D-TN
- William Cullom O-TN
- Emerson Etheridge O-TN
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA
- William Smith D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-VA
- Zedekiah Kidwell D-VA
- Charles Swearinger Lewis D-VA
- John Fryall Snodgrass D-VA
- James Meacham O-VT
- Andrew Tracy O-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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