House roll call 442 · 33rd Congress · Aug 3, 1854
To suspend the rules and remove S. 434, to provide for taking charge of the louisville and portland canal. (p. 2118)
On Aug 3, 1854, the House voted 90–51 (S 434). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 41–49, Others 49–2. 41 members voted against their own party.
During the 33rd Congress (1853–1854), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 90
- No
- 51
- Did not vote
- 101
- Date
- Aug 3, 1854
By party
- Democrats41 yes · 49 no · 69 didn’t vote
- Others49 yes · 2 no · 31 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR voted yes
- James Alexander Mcdougall D-CA voted yes
- George Read Riddle D-DE voted yes
- Bernhart Henn D-IA voted yes
- John Wentworth D-IL voted yes
- Cyrus Livingston Dunham D-IN voted yes
- Andrew Jackson Harlan D-IN voted yes
- John Cabell Breckinridge D-KY voted yes
- Richard Henry Stanton D-KY voted yes
- William Dunbar D-LA voted yes
- Roland Jones D-LA voted yes
- Jacob Shower D-MD voted yes
- David Stuart D-MI voted yes
- Samuel Clark D-MI voted yes
- Hestor Lockhart Stevens D-MI voted yes
- Daniel Boone Wright D-MS voted yes
- James Maurice D-NY voted yes
- William Marcy Tweed D-NY voted yes
- John Wheeler D-NY voted yes
- Charles Hughes D-NY voted yes
- Andrew Oliver D-NY voted yes
- Reuben Eaton Fenton D-NY voted yes
- Matthias H. Nichols D-OH voted yes
- Alfred Peck Edgerton D-OH voted yes
- Andrew Ellison D-OH voted yes
- Frederick William Green D-OH voted yes
- William Dell Lindsley D-OH voted yes
- George Bliss D-OH voted yes
- Andrew Stuart D-OH voted yes
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA voted yes
- John Robbins D-PA voted yes
- Christian Markle Straub D-PA voted yes
- Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA voted yes
- John Littleton Dawson D-PA voted yes
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis D-PA voted yes
- Thomas Davis D-RI voted yes
- Benjamin Babock Thurston D-RI voted yes
- William Montgomery Churchwell D-TN voted yes
- Frederick Perry Stanton D-TN voted yes
- William Smith D-VA voted yes
- Zedekiah Kidwell D-VA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR
- James Alexander Mcdougall D-CA
- George Read Riddle D-DE
- David Addison Reese O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens O-GA
- Bernhart Henn D-IA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne O-IL
- John Wentworth D-IL
- Jesse Olds Norton O-IL
- James Knox O-IL
- Cyrus Livingston Dunham D-IN
- Samuel Wilson Parker O-IN
- Andrew Jackson Harlan D-IN
- Benjamin Edwards Grey O-KY
- Clement Sidney Hill O-KY
- William Preston O-KY
- John Cabell Breckinridge D-KY
- Leander Martin Cox O-KY
- Richard Henry Stanton D-KY
- William Dunbar D-LA
- Theodore Gaillard Hunt O-LA
- Roland Jones D-LA
- Thomas Dawes Eliot O-MA
- John Wiley Edmands O-MA
- Samuel Hurd Walley O-MA
- William Appleton O-MA
- Charles Wentworth Upham O-MA
- Tappan Wentworth O-MA
- Alexander De Witt O-MA
- John Zacheus Goodrich O-MA
- Jacob Shower D-MD
- Samuel Page Benson O-ME
- Israel Washburn Jr. O-ME
- David Stuart D-MI
- Samuel Clark D-MI
- Hestor Lockhart Stevens D-MI
- Mordecai Oliver O-MO
- Samuel Caruthers O-MO
- Daniel Boone Wright D-MS
- John Kerr Jr. O-NC
- Alexander Cumming McWhorter Pennington O-NJ
- James Maurice D-NY
- William Marcy Tweed D-NY
- John Wheeler D-NY
- Russell Sage O-NY
- Charles Hughes D-NY
- George Abel Simmons O-NY
- Henry Bennett O-NY
- Gerrit Smith O-NY
- Andrew Oliver D-NY
- Davis Carpenter O-NY
- Benjamin Pringle O-NY
- Thomas Thorn Flagler O-NY
- Solomon George Haven O-NY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton D-NY
- John Scott Harrison O-OH
- Lewis Davis Campbell O-OH
- Matthias H. Nichols D-OH
- Alfred Peck Edgerton D-OH
- Andrew Ellison D-OH
- Aaron Harlan O-OH
- Frederick William Green D-OH
- John Lampkin Taylor O-OH
- William Dell Lindsley D-OH
- William Robinson Sapp O-OH
- George Bliss D-OH
- Edward Wade O-OH
- Andrew Stuart D-OH
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA
- Joseph Ripley Chandler O-PA
- John Robbins D-PA
- William Everhart O-PA
- Christian Markle Straub D-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA
- Samuel Lyon Russell 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
- Benjamin Babock Thurston D-RI
- Nathaniel Green Taylor O-TN
- William Montgomery Churchwell D-TN
- William Cullom O-TN
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer O-TN
- Frederick Perry Stanton D-TN
- William Smith D-VA
- Zedekiah Kidwell D-VA
- Alvah Sabin O-VT
How each representative voted: No
- Sampson Willis Harris D-AL
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
- James Ferguson Dowdell D-AL
- James Timothy Pratt D-CT
- Augustus Emmett Maxwell D-FL
- David Jackson Bailey D-GA
- James Cameron Allen D-IL
- Willis Allen D-IL
- Smith Miller D-IN
- William Hayden English D-IN
- Ebenezer Mattoon Chamberlain D-IN
- John Perkins Jr. D-LA
- Joshua Van Sant D-MD
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller D-ME
- Alfred William Lamb D-MO
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- William Barksdale D-MS
- 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
- Nathan Taylor Stratton D-NJ
- Charles Skelton D-NJ
- Samuel Lilly D-NJ
- George Vail D-NJ
- Hiram Walbridge D-NY
- Michael Walsh D-NY
- William Murray D-NY
- Peter Rowe D-NY
- Daniel Terryll Jones D-NY
- John James Taylor D-NY
- Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
- John Mcnair D-PA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Asa Packer D-PA
- William Henry Kurtz D-PA
- Preston Smith Brooks D-SC
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- George Washington Smyth D-TX
- John Singleton Millson D-VA
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- Paulus Powell D-VA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA
- Daniel Wells Jr. D-WI
- Ben C. Eastman D-WI
- John B. Macy D-WI
Did not vote
- Philip Phillips D-AL
- James Abercrombie O-AL
- William Russell Smith D-AL
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Edward Allen Warren D-AR
- Milton Slocum Latham D-CA
- Colin Macrae Ingersoll D-CT
- Nathan Belcher D-CT
- Origen Storrs Seymour D-CT
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- William Barton Wade Dent D-GA
- Elijah Webb Chastain D-GA
- Junius Hillyer D-GA
- John Parsons Cook O-IA
- William Alexander Richardson D-IL
- Richard Yates O-IL
- William Harrison Bissell O-IL
- James Henry Lane D-IN
- Thomas Andrews Hendricks D-IN
- John Givan Davis D-IN
- Daniel Mace D-IN
- Norman Eddy D-IN
- Linn Boyd D-KY
- Francis Marion Bristow O-KY
- Presley Underwood Ewing O-KY
- James Stone Chrisman D-KY
- John Milton Elliott D-KY
- Zeno Scudder O-MA
- Samuel Leonard Crocker O-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks D-MA
- Edward Dickinson O-MA
- John Rankin Franklin O-MD
- Henry May D-MD
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Augustus Rhodes Sollers O-MD
- Moses Macdonald D-ME
- Samuel Mayall D-ME
- Ephraim Wilder Farley O-ME
- David Addison Noble D-MI
- Thomas Hart Benton D-MO
- James Johnson Lindley O-MO
- John Gaines Miller O-MO
- John Smith Phelps D-MO
- William Taylor Sullivan Barry D-MS
- Wiley Pope Harris D-MS
- Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC
- William Shepperd Ashe D-NC
- Sion Hart Rogers O-NC
- Harry Hibbard D-NH
- Thomas William Cumming D-NY
- William Adams Walker D-NY
- Francis Brockholst Cutting D-NY
- Jared Valentine Peck D-NY
- Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook D-NY
- Gilbert Dean D-NY
- Isaac Teller O-NY
- Rufus Wheeler Peckham D-NY
- Bishop Perkins 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
- George Hastings D-NY
- Azariah Boody O-NY
- David Tiernan Disney D-OH
- Moses Bledso Corwin O-OH
- Thomas Ritchey D-OH
- Edson Baldwin Olds D-OH
- Harvey Hull Johnson D-OH
- Edward Ball O-OH
- Wilson Shannon D-OH
- William Henry Witte D-PA
- Henry Augustus Muhlenberg D-PA
- Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
- Isaac Ellmaker Hiester O-PA
- Ner Middleswarth O-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- James Gamble D-PA
- John Mcculloch O-PA
- Augustus Drum D-PA
- Michael Carver Trout D-PA
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- William Aiken D-SC
- Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC
- William Waters Boyce D-SC
- Brookins Campbell D-TN
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN
- Charles Ready O-TN
- Robert Malone Bugg O-TN
- Emerson Etheridge O-TN
- Peter Hansbrough Bell D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-VA
- John Letcher D-VA
- Charles Swearinger Lewis D-VA
- John Fryall Snodgrass D-VA
- Fayette Mcmullen D-VA
- James Meacham O-VT
- Andrew Tracy O-VT
Other votes
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