Senate roll call 147 · 33rd Congress · May 29, 1854
On adoption of the resolution as amended, directing the printer of the Senate to print forty thousand additional copies of the agricultural portion of the paten
On May 29, 1854, the Senate voted 23–12. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 12–10, Others 11–2. 10 members voted against their own party.
During the 33rd Congress (1853–1854), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 23
- No
- 12
- Did not vote
- 35
- Date
- May 29, 1854
By party
- Democrats12 yes · 10 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Others11 yes · 2 no · 15 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL voted no
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. D-AL voted no
- Isaac Toucey D-CT voted no
- John Slidell D-LA voted no
- Hannibal Hamlin D-ME voted no
- Charles Edward Stuart D-MI voted no
- Lewis Cass D-MI voted no
- Stephen Adams D-MS voted no
- Moses Norris Jr. D-NH voted no
- Isaac Pigeon Walker D-WI voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- John B. Weller D-CA
- Francis Gillette O-CT
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- John Pettit D-IN
- John Burton Thompson O-KY
- Charles Sumner O-MA
- Thomas George Pratt O-MD
- David Rice Atchison D-MO
- Albert Gallatin Brown D-MS
- George Edmund Badger O-NC
- Hamilton Fish O-NY
- William Henry Seward O-NY
- Benjamin Franklin Wade O-OH
- Richard Brodhead D-PA
- Philip Allen D-RI
- Josiah James Evans D-SC
- James Chamberlain Jones O-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk D-TX
- James Murray Mason D-VA
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA
- Solomon Foot O-VT
How each senator voted: No
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. D-AL
- Isaac Toucey D-CT
- Robert Augustus Toombs O-GA
- John Slidell D-LA
- Judah Philip Benjamin O-LA
- Hannibal Hamlin D-ME
- Charles Edward Stuart D-MI
- Lewis Cass D-MI
- Stephen Adams D-MS
- Moses Norris Jr. D-NH
- Isaac Pigeon Walker D-WI
Did not vote
- Robert Ward Johnson D-AR
- Solon Borland D-AR
- William King Sebastian D-AR
- William McKendree Gwin D-CA
- Truman Smith O-CT
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE
- John Middleton Clayton O-DE
- Jackson Morton O-FL
- Augustus Caesar Dodge D-IA
- George Wallace Jones D-IA
- James Shields D-IL
- Jesse David Bright D-IN
- Archibald Dixon O-KY
- Pierre Soulé D-LA
- Edward Everett O-MA
- Henry Wilson O-MA
- Julius Rockwell O-MA
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- William Pitt Fessenden O-ME
- Henry Sheffie Geyer O-MO
- David Settle Reid D-NC
- Charles Gordon Atherton D-NH
- Jared Warner Williams D-NH
- John Sullivan Wells D-NH
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ
- William Wright D-NJ
- Salmon Portland Chase O-OH
- James Cooper O-PA
- Charles Tillinghast James D-RI
- Andrew Pickens Butler D-SC
- John Bell O-TN
- Samuel Houston D-TX
- Lawrence Brainerd O-VT
- Samuel Shethar Phelps O-VT
- Henry Dodge D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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