Senate roll call 231 · 33rd Congress · Jul 20, 1854
To amend H.R. 37, by adding a clause granting all public lands lying within the limits of any state which have been reduced to 300,000 acres to the said state,
On Jul 20, 1854, the Senate voted 7–30 (HR 37). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 1–27, Others 6–3. 1 member voted against their own party.
During the 33rd Congress (1853–1854), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 7
- No
- 30
- Did not vote
- 33
- Date
- Jul 20, 1854
By party
- Democrats1 yes · 27 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Others6 yes · 3 no · 19 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. D-AL voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. D-AL
- Francis Gillette O-CT
- John Middleton Clayton O-DE
- Charles Sumner O-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Wade O-OH
- Salmon Portland Chase O-OH
- Solomon Foot O-VT
How each senator voted: No
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL
- Robert Ward Johnson D-AR
- William King Sebastian D-AR
- William McKendree Gwin D-CA
- Isaac Toucey D-CT
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- Robert Augustus Toombs 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
- John Slidell D-LA
- Judah Philip Benjamin O-LA
- Charles Edward Stuart D-MI
- Lewis Cass D-MI
- David Rice Atchison D-MO
- Henry Sheffie Geyer O-MO
- Albert Gallatin Brown D-MS
- Richard Brodhead D-PA
- Charles Tillinghast James D-RI
- Andrew Pickens Butler D-SC
- Josiah James Evans D-SC
- Samuel Houston D-TX
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk D-TX
- James Murray Mason D-VA
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA
- Henry Dodge D-WI
- Isaac Pigeon Walker D-WI
Did not vote
- Solon Borland D-AR
- John B. Weller D-CA
- Truman Smith O-CT
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE
- Jackson Morton O-FL
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- Archibald Dixon O-KY
- John Burton Thompson O-KY
- Pierre Soulé D-LA
- Edward Everett O-MA
- Henry Wilson 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
- 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
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ
- William Wright D-NJ
- Hamilton Fish O-NY
- William Henry Seward O-NY
- James Cooper O-PA
- Philip Allen D-RI
- James Chamberlain Jones O-TN
- John Bell O-TN
- Lawrence Brainerd O-VT
- Samuel Shethar Phelps O-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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