House roll call 475 · 34th Congress · Aug 26, 1856
To adjourn during debate on resolution that after passage of the army appropriation bill, the house will not excuse any member from acting or voting in conseque
On Aug 26, 1856, the House voted 65–110. Result: failed. By party: Others 24–83, Democrats 41–27. 27 members voted against their own party.
During the 34th Congress (1855–1856), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 65
- No
- 110
- Did not vote
- 63
- Date
- Aug 26, 1856
By party
- Others24 yes · 83 no · 45 didn’t vote
- Democrats41 yes · 27 no · 17 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Eli Sims Shorter D-AL voted no
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL voted no
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA voted no
- Hiram Warner D-GA voted no
- Albert Gallatin Talbott D-KY voted no
- Miles Taylor D-LA voted no
- Thomas Green Davidson D-LA voted no
- John Milton Sandidge D-LA voted no
- Daniel Boone Wright D-MS voted no
- Hendley Stone Bennett D-MS voted no
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC voted no
- George Vail D-NJ voted no
- John Wheeler D-NY voted no
- Francis Elias Spinner D-NY voted no
- John Williams D-NY voted no
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA voted no
- John Cadwalader D-PA voted no
- John Hickman D-PA voted no
- Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA voted no
- David Barclay D-PA voted no
- John Mcqueen D-SC voted no
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN voted no
- John Singleton Millson D-VA voted no
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA voted no
- William Osborne Goode D-VA voted no
- William Smith D-VA voted no
- Charles James Faulkner D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Ferguson Dowdell D-AL
- William Russell Smith O-AL
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Sampson Willis Harris D-AL
- Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR
- Albert Rust D-AR
- James William Denver D-CA
- Elisha Dickerson Cullen O-DE
- Augustus Emmett Maxwell D-FL
- Martin Jenkins Crawford D-GA
- Howell Cobb D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- James Thorington O-IA
- Thomas Langrell Harris D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- George Grundy Dunn O-IN
- David Pierson Holloway O-IN
- Daniel Mace O-IN
- Schuyler Colfax O-IN
- Henry Cornelius Burnett D-KY
- Joshua Husband Jewett D-KY
- John Milton Elliott D-KY
- Alexander De Witt O-MA
- James Augustus Stewart D-MD
- Thomas Fielder Bowie D-MD
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller D-ME
- David Safford Walbridge O-MI
- George Washington Peck D-MI
- John Smith Phelps D-MO
- William Barksdale D-MS
- William Augustus Lake O-MS
- John Anthony Quitman D-MS
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC
- Warren Winslow D-NC
- Lawrence O'Bryan Branch D-NC
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC
- Mason Weare Tappan O-NH
- Aaron Harrison Cragin O-NH
- James Bishop O-NJ
- John Kelly D-NY
- Bayard Clarke O-NY
- Edward Dodd O-NY
- Lewis Davis Campbell O-OH
- Aaron Harlan O-OH
- Philemon Bliss O-OH
- Job Roberts Tyson O-PA
- Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
- Asa Packer D-PA
- David Fullerton Robison O-PA
- David Ritchie O-PA
- William Aiken D-SC
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- William Waters Boyce D-SC
- John Houston Savage D-TN
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- John Vines Wright D-TN
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer O-TN
- Peter Hansbrough Bell D-TX
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- Paulus Powell D-VA
- John Letcher D-VA
- Zedekiah Kidwell D-VA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill O-VT
- Charles Billinghurst O-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Percy Walker O-AL
- Eli Sims Shorter D-AL
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
- Ezra Clark Jr. O-CT
- John Woodruff O-CT
- Sidney Dean O-CT
- William Wickham Welch O-CT
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA
- Hiram Warner D-GA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne O-IL
- James Hutchinson Woodworth O-IL
- Jesse Olds Norton O-IL
- James Knox O-IL
- William Cumback O-IN
- Lucien Barbour O-IN
- Harvey David Scott O-IN
- Samuel Brenton O-IN
- John Upfold Pettit O-IN
- John Pierce Campbell Jr. O-KY
- Warner Lewis Underwood O-KY
- Albert Gallatin Talbott D-KY
- Humphrey Marshall O-KY
- Leander Martin Cox O-KY
- Samuel Franklin Swope O-KY
- Miles Taylor D-LA
- Thomas Green Davidson D-LA
- John Milton Sandidge D-LA
- James Buffinton O-MA
- William Shapleigh Damrell O-MA
- Linus Bacon Comins O-MA
- Timothy Davis O-MA
- Chauncey Langdon Knapp O-MA
- Calvin Clifford Chaffee O-MA
- James Barroll Ricaud O-MD
- James Morrison Harris O-MD
- Henry Winter Davis O-MD
- Henry William Hoffman O-MD
- John M. Wood O-ME
- Ebenezer Knowlton O-ME
- Samuel Page Benson O-ME
- William Alanson Howard O-MI
- James Johnson Lindley O-MO
- Thomas Peter Akers O-MO
- Daniel Boone Wright D-MS
- Hendley Stone Bennett D-MS
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- Isaiah Dunn Clawson O-NJ
- George Vail D-NJ
- Alexander Cumming McWhorter Pennington O-NJ
- Guy Ray Pelton O-NY
- John Wheeler D-NY
- Abram Wakeman O-NY
- Ambrose Spencer Murray O-NY
- Rufus H. King O-NY
- Killian Miller O-NY
- Russell Sage O-NY
- Samuel Dickson O-NY
- George Abel Simmons O-NY
- Francis Elias Spinner D-NY
- Thomas Raymond Horton O-NY
- Jonas Abbott Hughston O-NY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson O-NY
- Henry Bennett O-NY
- Andrew Zimmerman Mccarty O-NY
- Amos Phelps Granger O-NY
- Edwin Barber Morgan O-NY
- John Mason Parker O-NY
- William Henry Kelsey O-NY
- John Williams D-NY
- Benjamin Pringle O-NY
- Thomas Thorn Flagler O-NY
- Francis Smith Edwards O-NY
- Richard Mott O-OH
- Jonas Reece Emrie O-OH
- Benjamin Stanton O-OH
- Samuel Galloway O-OH
- William Robinson Sapp O-OH
- Edward Ball O-OH
- Charles Jefferson Albright O-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Leiter O-OH
- Edward Wade O-OH
- John Armor Bingham O-OH
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA
- William Millward O-PA
- John Cadwalader D-PA
- John Hickman D-PA
- Samuel Carey Bradshaw O-PA
- Anthony Ellmaker Roberts O-PA
- John Christian Kunkel O-PA
- James Hepburn Campbell O-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA
- Lemuel Todd O-PA
- John Rufus Edie O-PA
- John Covode O-PA
- Jonathan Knight O-PA
- Samuel Anderson Purviance O-PA
- John Allison O-PA
- David Barclay D-PA
- John Dick O-PA
- Nathaniel Briggs Durfee O-RI
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- William Henry Sneed O-TN
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN
- Emerson Etheridge O-TN
- Lemuel Dale Evans O-TX
- John Singleton Millson D-VA
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- William Smith D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-VA
Did not vote
- Philemon Thomas Herbert D-CA
- Robert Pleasant Trippe O-GA
- John Henry Lumpkin D-GA
- Nathaniel Greene Foster O-GA
- Augustus Hall D-IA
- Jacob Cunningham Davis D-IL
- William Alexander Richardson D-IL
- James Cameron Allen D-IL
- James Lowry Donaldson Morrison D-IL
- Smith Miller D-IN
- William Hayden English D-IN
- Alexander Keith Marshall O-KY
- George Eustis Jr. O-LA
- Robert Bernard Hall O-MA
- Anson Burlingame O-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks O-MA
- Mark Trafton O-MA
- John Jasiel Perry O-ME
- Israel Washburn Jr. O-ME
- Henry Waldron O-MI
- Luther Martin Kennett O-MO
- Gilchrist Porter O-MO
- Mordecai Oliver O-MO
- John Gaines Miller O-MO
- Samuel Caruthers O-MO
- Robert Treat Paine O-NC
- Edwin Godwin Reade O-NC
- Richard Clauselle Puryear O-NC
- James Pike O-NH
- George Robbins Robbins O-NJ
- William Weightman Valk O-NY
- James Samuel Thomas Stranahan O-NY
- Thomas Richard Whitney O-NY
- Thomas Child Jr. O-NY
- William Augustus Gilbert O-NY
- Andrew Oliver D-NY
- Solomon George Haven O-NY
- Timothy Crane Day O-OH
- John Scott Harrison O-OH
- Matthias H. Nichols O-OH
- Cooper Kinderdine Watson O-OH
- Oscar Fitzallen Moore O-OH
- Valentine Baxter Horton O-OH
- John Sherman O-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
- Jacob Broom O-PA
- Henry Mills Fuller O-PA
- John Jamison Pearce O-PA
- Benjamin Babock Thurston O-RI
- Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC
- Preston Smith Brooks D-SC
- Albert Galiton Watkins D-TN
- Charles Ready O-TN
- Thomas Rivers O-TN
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett D-VA
- Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA
- John Snyder Carlile O-VA
- Fayette Mcmullen D-VA
- George Tisdale Hodges R-VT
- James Meacham O-VT
- Alvah Sabin O-VT
- Daniel Wells Jr. D-WI
- Cadwallader Colden Washburn O-WI
Other votes
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