House roll call 428 · 33rd Congress · Aug 2, 1854
To suspend the rules in order to move that the house do now consider business on the speakers table. (p. 2076)
On Aug 2, 1854, the House voted 81–86. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 75–37, Others 6–49. 37 members voted against their own party.
During the 33rd Congress (1853–1854), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 81
- No
- 86
- Did not vote
- 75
- Date
- Aug 2, 1854
By party
- Democrats75 yes · 37 no · 47 didn’t vote
- Others6 yes · 49 no · 27 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA voted no
- Elijah Webb Chastain D-GA voted no
- John Wentworth D-IL voted no
- James Stone Chrisman D-KY voted no
- Richard Henry Stanton D-KY voted no
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks D-MA voted no
- Joshua Van Sant D-MD voted no
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC voted no
- George Washington Kittredge D-NH voted no
- Nathan Taylor Stratton D-NJ voted no
- Charles Skelton D-NJ voted no
- George Vail D-NJ voted no
- James Maurice D-NY voted no
- Thomas William Cumming D-NY voted no
- Michael Walsh D-NY 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
- Charles Hughes D-NY voted no
- Daniel Terryll Jones D-NY voted no
- Andrew Oliver D-NY voted no
- William Dell Lindsley D-OH voted no
- John Mcnair D-PA voted no
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA voted no
- Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA voted no
- James Gamble D-PA voted no
- William Henry Kurtz D-PA voted no
- Thomas Davis D-RI voted no
- Benjamin Babock Thurston D-RI voted no
- John Mcqueen D-SC voted no
- William Aiken D-SC voted no
- William Montgomery Churchwell D-TN voted no
- George Washington Jones D-TN voted no
- John Singleton Millson D-VA voted no
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA voted no
- William Smith D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Philip Phillips D-AL
- James Abercrombie O-AL
- Sampson Willis Harris D-AL
- William Russell Smith D-AL
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
- James Ferguson Dowdell D-AL
- James Alexander Mcdougall D-CA
- Milton Slocum Latham D-CA
- James Timothy Pratt D-CT
- Nathan Belcher D-CT
- Augustus Emmett Maxwell D-FL
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- David Jackson Bailey D-GA
- Bernhart Henn D-IA
- John Parsons Cook O-IA
- William Alexander Richardson D-IL
- Willis Allen D-IL
- Smith Miller D-IN
- William Hayden English D-IN
- Cyrus Livingston Dunham D-IN
- Samuel Wilson Parker O-IN
- Thomas Andrews Hendricks D-IN
- John Givan Davis D-IN
- Norman Eddy D-IN
- Ebenezer Mattoon Chamberlain D-IN
- John Cabell Breckinridge D-KY
- William Dunbar D-LA
- John Perkins Jr. D-LA
- Roland Jones D-LA
- Jacob Shower D-MD
- Moses Macdonald D-ME
- Samuel Mayall D-ME
- David Stuart D-MI
- Samuel Clark D-MI
- Hestor Lockhart Stevens D-MI
- Thomas Hart Benton D-MO
- Alfred William Lamb D-MO
- Mordecai Oliver O-MO
- John Gaines Miller O-MO
- John Smith Phelps D-MO
- Daniel Boone Wright D-MS
- William Taylor Sullivan Barry D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Wiley Pope Harris D-MS
- William Barksdale D-MS
- Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- Harry Hibbard D-NH
- Hiram Walbridge D-NY
- William Marcy Tweed D-NY
- Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook D-NY
- Peter Rowe D-NY
- John James Taylor D-NY
- David Tiernan Disney D-OH
- Alfred Peck Edgerton D-OH
- Andrew Ellison D-OH
- Edson Baldwin Olds D-OH
- Harvey Hull Johnson D-OH
- Wilson Shannon D-OH
- George Bliss D-OH
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA
- Joseph Ripley Chandler O-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- John Littleton Dawson D-PA
- Michael Carver Trout D-PA
- Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- William Waters Boyce D-SC
- Frederick Perry Stanton D-TN
- George Washington Smyth D-TX
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- Paulus Powell D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-VA
- John Letcher D-VA
- Zedekiah Kidwell D-VA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA
- Fayette Mcmullen D-VA
- Ben C. Eastman D-WI
- John B. Macy D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA
- Elijah Webb Chastain D-GA
- David Addison Reese O-GA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne O-IL
- John Wentworth D-IL
- Jesse Olds Norton O-IL
- James Knox O-IL
- James Stone Chrisman D-KY
- Clement Sidney Hill O-KY
- William Preston O-KY
- Leander Martin Cox O-KY
- Richard Henry Stanton D-KY
- 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
- Tappan Wentworth O-MA
- John Zacheus Goodrich O-MA
- Joshua Van Sant D-MD
- Ephraim Wilder Farley O-ME
- Israel Washburn Jr. O-ME
- Sion Hart Rogers O-NC
- John Kerr Jr. O-NC
- Richard Clauselle Puryear O-NC
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC
- George Washington Kittredge D-NH
- Nathan Taylor Stratton D-NJ
- Charles Skelton D-NJ
- George Vail D-NJ
- Alexander Cumming McWhorter Pennington O-NJ
- James Maurice D-NY
- Thomas William Cumming D-NY
- Michael Walsh D-NY
- John Wheeler D-NY
- Jared Valentine Peck D-NY
- William Murray D-NY
- Russell Sage O-NY
- Rufus Wheeler Peckham D-NY
- Charles Hughes D-NY
- George Abel Simmons O-NY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson O-NY
- Henry Bennett O-NY
- Gerrit Smith O-NY
- Daniel Terryll Jones D-NY
- Edwin Barber Morgan O-NY
- Andrew Oliver D-NY
- Davis Carpenter O-NY
- Benjamin Pringle O-NY
- Thomas Thorn Flagler O-NY
- Solomon George Haven O-NY
- John Scott Harrison O-OH
- Aaron Harlan O-OH
- Moses Bledso Corwin O-OH
- John Lampkin Taylor O-OH
- William Dell Lindsley D-OH
- William Robinson Sapp O-OH
- Edward Ball O-OH
- John Mcnair D-PA
- William Everhart O-PA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA
- James Gamble D-PA
- William Henry Kurtz D-PA
- Samuel Lyon Russell O-PA
- John Mcculloch O-PA
- David Ritchie O-PA
- Thomas Marshall Howe O-PA
- John Dick O-PA
- Thomas Davis D-RI
- Benjamin Babock Thurston D-RI
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- William Aiken D-SC
- Nathaniel Green Taylor O-TN
- William Montgomery Churchwell D-TN
- William Cullom O-TN
- Charles Ready O-TN
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- Robert Malone Bugg O-TN
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer O-TN
- John Singleton Millson D-VA
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA
- William Smith D-VA
- Alvah Sabin O-VT
Did not vote
- Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR
- Edward Allen Warren D-AR
- Colin Macrae Ingersoll D-CT
- Origen Storrs Seymour D-CT
- George Read Riddle D-DE
- William Barton Wade Dent D-GA
- Junius Hillyer D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens O-GA
- Richard Yates O-IL
- James Cameron Allen D-IL
- William Harrison Bissell O-IL
- James Henry Lane D-IN
- Daniel Mace 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
- Theodore Gaillard Hunt O-LA
- Zeno Scudder O-MA
- Alexander De Witt O-MA
- Edward Dickinson O-MA
- John Rankin Franklin O-MD
- Henry May D-MD
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Augustus Rhodes Sollers O-MD
- Samuel Page Benson O-ME
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller D-ME
- David Addison Noble D-MI
- James Johnson Lindley O-MO
- Samuel Caruthers O-MO
- William Shepperd Ashe D-NC
- George Washington Morrison D-NH
- Samuel Lilly D-NJ
- William Adams Walker D-NY
- Francis Brockholst Cutting D-NY
- Gilbert Dean D-NY
- Isaac Teller O-NY
- Bishop Perkins D-NY
- George William Chase O-NY
- Henry Charles Goodwin O-NY
- Caleb Lyon I-NY
- George Hastings D-NY
- Azariah Boody O-NY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton D-NY
- Lewis Davis Campbell O-OH
- Matthias H. Nichols D-OH
- Frederick William Green D-OH
- Thomas Ritchey D-OH
- Edward Wade O-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
- Andrew Stuart D-OH
- John Robbins D-PA
- William Henry Witte D-PA
- Henry Augustus Muhlenberg D-PA
- Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
- Isaac Ellmaker Hiester O-PA
- Ner Middleswarth O-PA
- Christian Markle Straub D-PA
- Asa Packer D-PA
- Augustus Drum D-PA
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis D-PA
- Preston Smith Brooks D-SC
- Brookins Campbell D-TN
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN
- Emerson Etheridge O-TN
- Peter Hansbrough Bell D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- Charles Swearinger Lewis D-VA
- John Fryall Snodgrass D-VA
- James Meacham O-VT
- Andrew Tracy O-VT
- Daniel Wells Jr. D-WI
Other votes
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