Senate roll call 208 · 33rd Congress · Jul 19, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 378 by providing that, instead of paying 25 cents an acre, the settlers pay 50 cents an acre and receive back 50 cents for each acre cult
On Jul 19, 1854, the Senate voted 9–41 (HR 378). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 6–25, Others 3–16. 6 members voted against their own party.
During the 33rd Congress (1853–1854), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 9
- No
- 41
- Did not vote
- 20
- Date
- Jul 19, 1854
By party
- Democrats6 yes · 25 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 16 no · 9 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. D-AL voted yes
- John B. Weller D-CA voted yes
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL voted yes
- Richard Brodhead D-PA voted yes
- Andrew Pickens Butler D-SC voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk D-TX voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
How each senator voted: No
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL
- William King Sebastian D-AR
- William McKendree Gwin D-CA
- Francis Gillette O-CT
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE
- John Middleton Clayton O-DE
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- Augustus Caesar Dodge D-IA
- George Wallace Jones D-IA
- James Shields D-IL
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- Jesse David Bright D-IN
- John Pettit D-IN
- Archibald Dixon O-KY
- John Slidell D-LA
- Charles Sumner O-MA
- Julius Rockwell O-MA
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- Thomas George Pratt O-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin D-ME
- William Pitt Fessenden O-ME
- Charles Edward Stuart D-MI
- Lewis Cass D-MI
- David Rice Atchison D-MO
- Henry Sheffie Geyer O-MO
- Albert Gallatin Brown D-MS
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ
- Hamilton Fish O-NY
- Benjamin Franklin Wade O-OH
- Salmon Portland Chase O-OH
- Charles Tillinghast James D-RI
- Philip Allen D-RI
- Josiah James Evans D-SC
- James Chamberlain Jones O-TN
- John Bell O-TN
- Samuel Houston D-TX
- James Murray Mason D-VA
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA
- Solomon Foot O-VT
- Henry Dodge D-WI
- Isaac Pigeon Walker D-WI
Did not vote
- Robert Ward Johnson D-AR
- Solon Borland D-AR
- Isaac Toucey D-CT
- Truman Smith O-CT
- Jackson Morton O-FL
- Pierre Soulé D-LA
- Edward Everett O-MA
- Henry Wilson O-MA
- Stephen Adams D-MS
- David Settle Reid D-NC
- George Edmund Badger O-NC
- Charles Gordon Atherton D-NH
- Jared Warner Williams D-NH
- John Sullivan Wells D-NH
- Moses Norris Jr. D-NH
- William Wright D-NJ
- William Henry Seward O-NY
- James Cooper O-PA
- Lawrence Brainerd O-VT
- Samuel Shethar Phelps O-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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