Senate roll call 531 · 33rd Congress · Mar 3, 1855
To amend H.R. 569, by paying out of the general appropriations such persons who have been decreed by the district judges to have suffered losses in east fla. UN
On Mar 3, 1855, the Senate voted 10–31 (HR 569). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 4–18, Others 6–13. 4 members voted against their own party.
During the 33rd Congress (1853–1854), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 10
- No
- 31
- Did not vote
- 29
- Date
- Mar 3, 1855
By party
- Democrats4 yes · 18 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Others6 yes · 13 no · 9 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL voted yes
- John Pettit D-IN voted yes
- Albert Gallatin Brown D-MS voted yes
- Isaac Pigeon Walker D-WI voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Jackson Morton O-FL
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- Robert Augustus Toombs O-GA
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- John Pettit D-IN
- John Burton Thompson O-KY
- Albert Gallatin Brown D-MS
- George Edmund Badger O-NC
- James Cooper O-PA
- Isaac Pigeon Walker D-WI
How each senator voted: No
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. D-AL
- John B. Weller D-CA
- Francis Gillette O-CT
- Isaac Toucey D-CT
- John Middleton Clayton O-DE
- George Wallace Jones D-IA
- James Shields D-IL
- John Slidell D-LA
- Judah Philip Benjamin O-LA
- Charles Sumner O-MA
- Henry Wilson O-MA
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- William Pitt Fessenden O-ME
- Henry Sheffie Geyer O-MO
- John Sullivan Wells D-NH
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ
- William Wright D-NJ
- William Henry Seward O-NY
- Benjamin Franklin Wade O-OH
- Salmon Portland Chase O-OH
- Richard Brodhead D-PA
- 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
- Lawrence Brainerd O-VT
- Solomon Foot O-VT
- Henry Dodge D-WI
Did not vote
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL
- 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
- Augustus Caesar Dodge D-IA
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- Jesse David Bright D-IN
- Archibald Dixon O-KY
- Pierre Soulé D-LA
- Edward Everett O-MA
- Julius Rockwell O-MA
- Thomas George Pratt O-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin D-ME
- Charles Edward Stuart D-MI
- Lewis Cass D-MI
- David Rice Atchison D-MO
- Stephen Adams D-MS
- David Settle Reid D-NC
- Charles Gordon Atherton D-NH
- Jared Warner Williams D-NH
- Moses Norris Jr. D-NH
- Hamilton Fish O-NY
- Charles Tillinghast James D-RI
- James Chamberlain Jones O-TN
- John Bell O-TN
- Samuel Shethar Phelps O-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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