Senate roll call 322 · 33rd Congress · Aug 2, 1854
To amend the anglo-american treaty, which amendment provides to ratify proviso to be inserted at the end of article 2, to the effect that the stipulations of TH
On Aug 2, 1854, the Senate voted 11–28. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 4–20, Others 7–8. 4 members voted against their own party.
During the 33rd Congress (1853–1854), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 11
- No
- 28
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Aug 2, 1854
By party
- Democrats4 yes · 20 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Others7 yes · 8 no · 13 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. D-AL voted yes
- John B. Weller D-CA voted yes
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE voted yes
- Richard Brodhead D-PA voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. D-AL
- John B. Weller D-CA
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE
- John Middleton Clayton O-DE
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- Judah Philip Benjamin O-LA
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- Thomas George Pratt O-MD
- James Cooper O-PA
- Richard Brodhead D-PA
- Solomon Foot O-VT
How each senator voted: No
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL
- William King Sebastian D-AR
- William McKendree Gwin D-CA
- Isaac Toucey D-CT
- Jackson Morton O-FL
- Augustus Caesar Dodge D-IA
- George Wallace Jones D-IA
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- Charles Sumner O-MA
- Julius Rockwell O-MA
- William Pitt Fessenden O-ME
- Charles Edward Stuart D-MI
- Albert Gallatin Brown D-MS
- Stephen Adams D-MS
- Moses Norris Jr. D-NH
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ
- Hamilton Fish O-NY
- William Henry Seward 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
- Samuel Houston D-TX
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk D-TX
- James Murray Mason D-VA
- Henry Dodge D-WI
- Isaac Pigeon Walker D-WI
Did not vote
- Robert Ward Johnson D-AR
- Solon Borland D-AR
- Francis Gillette O-CT
- Truman Smith O-CT
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- Robert Augustus Toombs O-GA
- James Shields D-IL
- Jesse David Bright D-IN
- John Pettit D-IN
- Archibald Dixon O-KY
- John Burton Thompson O-KY
- John Slidell D-LA
- Pierre Soulé D-LA
- Edward Everett O-MA
- Henry Wilson O-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin D-ME
- Lewis Cass D-MI
- David Rice Atchison D-MO
- Henry Sheffie Geyer O-MO
- 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
- William Wright D-NJ
- Andrew Pickens Butler D-SC
- James Chamberlain Jones O-TN
- John Bell O-TN
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA
- Lawrence Brainerd O-VT
- Samuel Shethar Phelps O-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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