Senate roll call 311 · 33rd Congress · Aug 1, 1854
On deciding, whether or not the words "each of the high contracting parties being at liberty to give such notice to the other at the end of said term of ten yea
On Aug 1, 1854, the Senate voted 30–9. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 23–4, Others 7–5. 4 members voted against their own party.
During the 33rd Congress (1853–1854), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 30
- No
- 9
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Aug 1, 1854
By party
- Democrats23 yes · 4 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Others7 yes · 5 no · 16 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Slidell D-LA voted no
- Jared Warner Williams D-NH voted no
- Richard Brodhead D-PA voted no
- Isaac Pigeon Walker D-WI voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- William King Sebastian D-AR
- John B. Weller D-CA
- William McKendree Gwin D-CA
- Francis Gillette O-CT
- Isaac Toucey D-CT
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- Augustus Caesar Dodge D-IA
- George Wallace Jones D-IA
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- John Pettit D-IN
- Charles Sumner O-MA
- Julius Rockwell O-MA
- Charles Edward Stuart D-MI
- Lewis Cass D-MI
- David Rice Atchison D-MO
- Albert Gallatin Brown D-MS
- Stephen Adams D-MS
- Hamilton Fish O-NY
- William Henry Seward O-NY
- Salmon Portland Chase O-OH
- Charles Tillinghast James D-RI
- Philip Allen 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
- Solomon Foot O-VT
- Henry Dodge D-WI
How each senator voted: No
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- John Slidell D-LA
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- William Pitt Fessenden O-ME
- Jared Warner Williams D-NH
- Benjamin Franklin Wade O-OH
- James Cooper O-PA
- Richard Brodhead D-PA
- Isaac Pigeon Walker D-WI
Did not vote
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. D-AL
- Robert Ward Johnson D-AR
- Solon Borland D-AR
- Truman Smith O-CT
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE
- John Middleton Clayton O-DE
- Jackson Morton O-FL
- Robert Augustus Toombs O-GA
- James Shields D-IL
- Jesse David Bright D-IN
- Archibald Dixon O-KY
- John Burton Thompson O-KY
- Judah Philip Benjamin O-LA
- Pierre Soulé D-LA
- Edward Everett O-MA
- Henry Wilson O-MA
- Thomas George Pratt O-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin D-ME
- Henry Sheffie Geyer O-MO
- David Settle Reid D-NC
- George Edmund Badger O-NC
- Charles Gordon Atherton D-NH
- John Sullivan Wells D-NH
- Moses Norris Jr. D-NH
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ
- William Wright D-NJ
- 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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