House roll call 579 · 33rd Congress · Mar 2, 1855
To amend an amendment of the Senate to H.R. 562. The Senate amendment proposes that there shall be added to the army two regiments of infantry and two regiment
On Mar 2, 1855, the House voted 102–70 (HR 562). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 64–48, Others 38–22. 48 members voted against their own party.
During the 33rd Congress (1853–1854), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 102
- No
- 70
- Did not vote
- 70
- Date
- Mar 2, 1855
By party
- Democrats64 yes · 48 no · 47 didn’t vote
- Others38 yes · 22 no · 22 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Sampson Willis Harris D-AL voted no
- William Russell Smith D-AL voted no
- George Smith Houston D-AL voted no
- James Ferguson Dowdell D-AL voted no
- James Timothy Pratt D-CT voted no
- William Hayden English D-IN voted no
- Cyrus Livingston Dunham D-IN voted no
- Thomas Andrews Hendricks D-IN voted no
- John Givan Davis D-IN voted no
- Daniel Mace D-IN voted no
- Henry May D-MD voted no
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD voted no
- Moses Macdonald D-ME voted no
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller D-ME voted no
- Hestor Lockhart Stevens D-MI voted no
- Thomas Hart Benton D-MO voted no
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS voted no
- Wiley Pope Harris D-MS voted no
- Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC voted no
- Nathan Taylor Stratton D-NJ voted no
- Charles Skelton D-NJ voted no
- James Maurice 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
- Bishop Perkins D-NY voted no
- Peter Rowe D-NY voted no
- Daniel Terryll Jones D-NY voted no
- Andrew Oliver D-NY voted no
- George Hastings D-NY voted no
- Matthias H. Nichols D-OH voted no
- William Dell Lindsley D-OH voted no
- John Robbins D-PA voted no
- William Henry Witte D-PA voted no
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA voted no
- Asa Packer D-PA voted no
- William Waters Boyce D-SC voted no
- George Washington Jones D-TN voted no
- John Singleton Millson D-VA voted no
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA voted no
- Paulus Powell D-VA voted no
- John Letcher D-VA voted no
- Charles Swearinger Lewis D-VA voted no
- Fayette Mcmullen D-VA voted no
- Daniel Wells Jr. D-WI voted no
- Ben C. Eastman D-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Philip Phillips D-AL
- James Abercrombie O-AL
- Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR
- James Alexander Mcdougall D-CA
- Milton Slocum Latham D-CA
- Nathan Belcher D-CT
- George Read Riddle D-DE
- Augustus Emmett Maxwell D-FL
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA
- Bernhart Henn D-IA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne O-IL
- James Knox O-IL
- William Alexander Richardson D-IL
- James Cameron Allen D-IL
- Willis Allen D-IL
- Smith Miller D-IN
- James Henry Lane D-IN
- Norman Eddy D-IN
- Ebenezer Mattoon Chamberlain D-IN
- Andrew Jackson Harlan D-IN
- Francis Marion Bristow O-KY
- James Stone Chrisman D-KY
- Clement Sidney Hill O-KY
- John Milton Elliott D-KY
- William Preston O-KY
- John Cabell Breckinridge D-KY
- Richard Henry Stanton D-KY
- William Dunbar D-LA
- Theodore Gaillard Hunt O-LA
- John Perkins Jr. D-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
- Edward Dickinson O-MA
- Jacob Shower D-MD
- Joshua Van Sant D-MD
- Ephraim Wilder Farley O-ME
- Samuel Page Benson O-ME
- David Stuart D-MI
- Samuel Clark D-MI
- James Johnson Lindley O-MO
- Mordecai Oliver O-MO
- Samuel Caruthers O-MO
- Daniel Boone Wright D-MS
- William Barksdale D-MS
- William Shepperd Ashe D-NC
- Sion Hart Rogers O-NC
- John Kerr Jr. O-NC
- Richard Clauselle Puryear O-NC
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- Harry Hibbard D-NH
- Samuel Lilly D-NJ
- William Marcy Tweed D-NY
- Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook D-NY
- Isaac Teller O-NY
- Russell Sage O-NY
- Charles Hughes D-NY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson O-NY
- John James Taylor D-NY
- Davis Carpenter O-NY
- David Tiernan Disney D-OH
- John Scott Harrison O-OH
- Alfred Peck Edgerton D-OH
- Frederick William Green D-OH
- John Lampkin Taylor O-OH
- Edson Baldwin Olds D-OH
- Harvey Hull Johnson D-OH
- Wilson Shannon D-OH
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA
- Joseph Ripley Chandler O-PA
- John Mcnair D-PA
- Isaac Ellmaker Hiester O-PA
- Christian Markle Straub D-PA
- William Henry Kurtz D-PA
- Samuel Lyon Russell O-PA
- Augustus Drum D-PA
- John Littleton Dawson D-PA
- Thomas Marshall Howe O-PA
- Michael Carver Trout D-PA
- Thomas Davis D-RI
- Benjamin Babock Thurston D-RI
- William Aiken D-SC
- Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC
- Preston Smith Brooks D-SC
- Nathaniel Green Taylor O-TN
- William Cullom O-TN
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer O-TN
- Emerson Etheridge O-TN
- Frederick Perry Stanton D-TN
- George Washington Smyth D-TX
- Peter Hansbrough Bell D-TX
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-VA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA
- Alvah Sabin O-VT
- John B. Macy D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Sampson Willis Harris D-AL
- William Russell Smith D-AL
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- James Ferguson Dowdell D-AL
- James Timothy Pratt D-CT
- David Addison Reese O-GA
- 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
- Daniel Mace D-IN
- Benjamin Edwards Grey O-KY
- Samuel Leonard Crocker O-MA
- Henry May D-MD
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Moses Macdonald D-ME
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller D-ME
- Hestor Lockhart Stevens D-MI
- Thomas Hart Benton D-MO
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Wiley Pope Harris D-MS
- Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC
- Nathan Taylor Stratton D-NJ
- Charles Skelton D-NJ
- Alexander Cumming McWhorter Pennington O-NJ
- James Maurice D-NY
- Michael Walsh D-NY
- John Wheeler D-NY
- Jared Valentine Peck D-NY
- William Murray D-NY
- Rufus Wheeler Peckham D-NY
- Bishop Perkins D-NY
- Peter Rowe D-NY
- Henry Bennett O-NY
- Henry Charles Goodwin O-NY
- Daniel Terryll Jones D-NY
- Edwin Barber Morgan O-NY
- Andrew Oliver D-NY
- George Hastings D-NY
- Benjamin Pringle O-NY
- Thomas Thorn Flagler O-NY
- Lewis Davis Campbell O-OH
- Matthias H. Nichols D-OH
- Aaron Harlan O-OH
- Moses Bledso Corwin O-OH
- William Dell Lindsley D-OH
- William Robinson Sapp O-OH
- Edward Ball O-OH
- Edward Wade O-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
- John Robbins D-PA
- William Henry Witte D-PA
- William Everhart O-PA
- Ner Middleswarth O-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- Asa Packer D-PA
- John Mcculloch O-PA
- David Ritchie O-PA
- William Waters Boyce D-SC
- Charles Ready O-TN
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- John Singleton Millson D-VA
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- Paulus Powell D-VA
- John Letcher D-VA
- Charles Swearinger Lewis D-VA
- Fayette Mcmullen D-VA
- Daniel Wells Jr. D-WI
- Ben C. Eastman D-WI
Did not vote
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
- Edward Allen Warren D-AR
- Colin Macrae Ingersoll D-CT
- Origen Storrs Seymour D-CT
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- David Jackson Bailey D-GA
- William Barton Wade Dent D-GA
- Elijah Webb Chastain D-GA
- Junius Hillyer D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens O-GA
- John Parsons Cook O-IA
- John Wentworth D-IL
- Jesse Olds Norton O-IL
- Richard Yates O-IL
- William Harrison Bissell O-IL
- Linn Boyd D-KY
- Presley Underwood Ewing O-KY
- Leander Martin Cox O-KY
- Zeno Scudder O-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks D-MA
- John Zacheus Goodrich O-MA
- John Rankin Franklin O-MD
- Augustus Rhodes Sollers O-MD
- Samuel Mayall D-ME
- Israel Washburn Jr. O-ME
- David Addison Noble D-MI
- Alfred William Lamb D-MO
- John Gaines Miller O-MO
- John Smith Phelps D-MO
- William Taylor Sullivan Barry D-MS
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC
- George Washington Kittredge D-NH
- George Washington Morrison D-NH
- George Vail D-NJ
- Thomas William Cumming D-NY
- Hiram Walbridge D-NY
- William Adams Walker D-NY
- Francis Brockholst Cutting D-NY
- Gilbert Dean D-NY
- George Abel Simmons O-NY
- George William Chase O-NY
- Gerrit Smith O-NY
- Caleb Lyon I-NY
- Azariah Boody O-NY
- Solomon George Haven O-NY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton D-NY
- Andrew Ellison D-OH
- Thomas Ritchey D-OH
- George Bliss D-OH
- Andrew Stuart D-OH
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Henry Augustus Muhlenberg D-PA
- Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA
- James Gamble D-PA
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis D-PA
- John Dick O-PA
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- Brookins Campbell D-TN
- William Montgomery Churchwell D-TN
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN
- Robert Malone Bugg O-TN
- Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA
- William Smith D-VA
- Zedekiah Kidwell 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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