House roll call 605 · 34th Congress · Feb 4, 1857
To table S. 493, expediting telegraphic communication for the use of the government in its foreign intercourse.
On Feb 4, 1857, the House voted 57–123 (S 493). Result: failed. By party: Others 16–102, Democrats 42–20, Republicans 0–1. 20 members voted against their own party.
During the 34th Congress (1855–1856), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 57
- No
- 123
- Did not vote
- 57
- Date
- Feb 4, 1857
By party
- Others16 yes · 102 no · 34 didn’t vote
- Democrats42 yes · 20 no · 23 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Philemon Thomas Herbert D-CA voted no
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA voted no
- Augustus Hall D-IA voted no
- James Lowry Donaldson Morrison D-IL voted no
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL voted no
- Joshua Husband Jewett D-KY voted no
- Thomas Green Davidson D-LA voted no
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller D-ME voted no
- George Washington Peck D-MI voted no
- Lawrence O'Bryan Branch D-NC voted no
- John Kelly D-NY 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
- Asa Packer D-PA voted no
- Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA voted no
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN voted no
- Daniel Wells Jr. D-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Eli Sims Shorter D-AL
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
- Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR
- James William Denver D-CA
- Augustus Emmett Maxwell D-FL
- Martin Jenkins Crawford D-GA
- Smith Miller D-IN
- William Hayden English D-IN
- Daniel Mace O-IN
- Warner Lewis Underwood O-KY
- Albert Gallatin Talbott D-KY
- Leander Martin Cox O-KY
- Miles Taylor D-LA
- John Milton Sandidge D-LA
- James Augustus Stewart D-MD
- Thomas Fielder Bowie D-MD
- Luther Martin Kennett O-MO
- Gilchrist Porter O-MO
- Mordecai Oliver O-MO
- Thomas Peter Akers O-MO
- John Smith Phelps D-MO
- Daniel Boone Wright D-MS
- Hendley Stone Bennett D-MS
- William Barksdale D-MS
- John Anthony Quitman D-MS
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC
- Warren Winslow D-NC
- Richard Clauselle Puryear O-NC
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- George Vail D-NJ
- Jonas Abbott Hughston O-NY
- Timothy Crane Day O-OH
- Matthias H. Nichols O-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Leiter O-OH
- Lemuel Todd O-PA
- Benjamin Babock Thurston O-RI
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- William Aiken D-SC
- William Waters Boyce D-SC
- Albert Galiton Watkins D-TN
- William Henry Sneed O-TN
- John Houston Savage D-TN
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- John Vines Wright D-TN
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett D-VA
- John Singleton Millson D-VA
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- Paulus Powell D-VA
- William Smith D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-VA
- John Letcher D-VA
- John Snyder Carlile O-VA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA
- Fayette Mcmullen D-VA
How each representative voted: No
- William Russell Smith O-AL
- Philemon Thomas Herbert D-CA
- Ezra Clark Jr. O-CT
- John Woodruff O-CT
- Sidney Dean O-CT
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA
- Robert Pleasant Trippe O-GA
- Nathaniel Greene Foster O-GA
- Augustus Hall D-IA
- James Thorington O-IA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne O-IL
- James Hutchinson Woodworth O-IL
- James Knox O-IL
- James Lowry Donaldson Morrison D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- George Grundy Dunn O-IN
- William Cumback O-IN
- David Pierson Holloway O-IN
- Lucien Barbour O-IN
- Harvey David Scott O-IN
- Schuyler Colfax O-IN
- Samuel Brenton O-IN
- John Upfold Pettit O-IN
- John Pierce Campbell Jr. O-KY
- Joshua Husband Jewett D-KY
- Humphrey Marshall O-KY
- George Eustis Jr. O-LA
- Thomas Green Davidson D-LA
- Robert Bernard Hall O-MA
- James Buffinton O-MA
- William Shapleigh Damrell O-MA
- Linus Bacon Comins O-MA
- Anson Burlingame O-MA
- Timothy Davis O-MA
- Chauncey Langdon Knapp O-MA
- Calvin Clifford Chaffee O-MA
- Mark Trafton O-MA
- James Barroll Ricaud O-MD
- Henry William Hoffman O-MD
- John M. Wood O-ME
- John Jasiel Perry O-ME
- Ebenezer Knowlton O-ME
- Samuel Page Benson O-ME
- Israel Washburn Jr. O-ME
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller D-ME
- William Alanson Howard O-MI
- Henry Waldron O-MI
- David Safford Walbridge O-MI
- George Washington Peck D-MI
- William Augustus Lake O-MS
- Lawrence O'Bryan Branch D-NC
- James Pike O-NH
- Mason Weare Tappan O-NH
- George Robbins Robbins O-NJ
- James Bishop O-NJ
- Alexander Cumming McWhorter Pennington O-NJ
- William Weightman Valk O-NY
- James Samuel Thomas Stranahan O-NY
- Guy Ray Pelton O-NY
- John Kelly D-NY
- Thomas Richard Whitney 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
- Edward Dodd O-NY
- George Abel Simmons O-NY
- Francis Elias Spinner D-NY
- Thomas Raymond Horton O-NY
- Andrew Zimmerman Mccarty O-NY
- Amos Phelps Granger O-NY
- Edwin Barber Morgan O-NY
- John Mason Parker O-NY
- John Williams D-NY
- Benjamin Pringle O-NY
- Thomas Thorn Flagler O-NY
- Solomon George Haven O-NY
- Francis Smith Edwards O-NY
- John Scott Harrison O-OH
- Lewis Davis Campbell O-OH
- Richard Mott O-OH
- Aaron Harlan O-OH
- Benjamin Stanton O-OH
- Cooper Kinderdine Watson O-OH
- Oscar Fitzallen Moore O-OH
- Valentine Baxter Horton O-OH
- Samuel Galloway O-OH
- John Sherman O-OH
- Philemon Bliss O-OH
- William Robinson Sapp O-OH
- Edward Ball O-OH
- Charles Jefferson Albright O-OH
- Edward Wade O-OH
- John Armor Bingham O-OH
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA
- Job Roberts Tyson O-PA
- William Millward O-PA
- Jacob Broom O-PA
- John Cadwalader D-PA
- Samuel Carey Bradshaw O-PA
- Anthony Ellmaker Roberts O-PA
- John Christian Kunkel O-PA
- James Hepburn Campbell O-PA
- Henry Mills Fuller O-PA
- Asa Packer D-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA
- John Covode O-PA
- Jonathan Knight O-PA
- Samuel Anderson Purviance O-PA
- John Dick O-PA
- Nathaniel Briggs Durfee O-RI
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN
- Charles Ready O-TN
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer O-TN
- Lemuel Dale Evans O-TX
- George Tisdale Hodges R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill O-VT
- Alvah Sabin O-VT
- Daniel Wells Jr. D-WI
- Cadwallader Colden Washburn O-WI
Did not vote
- Percy Walker O-AL
- James Ferguson Dowdell D-AL
- Sampson Willis Harris D-AL
- Albert Rust D-AR
- William Wickham Welch O-CT
- Elisha Dickerson Cullen O-DE
- Hiram Warner D-GA
- John Henry Lumpkin D-GA
- Howell Cobb D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Jesse Olds Norton O-IL
- Jacob Cunningham Davis D-IL
- William Alexander Richardson D-IL
- Thomas Langrell Harris D-IL
- James Cameron Allen D-IL
- Henry Cornelius Burnett D-KY
- John Milton Elliott D-KY
- Alexander Keith Marshall O-KY
- Samuel Franklin Swope O-KY
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks O-MA
- Alexander De Witt O-MA
- James Morrison Harris O-MD
- Henry Winter Davis O-MD
- James Johnson Lindley O-MO
- John Gaines Miller O-MO
- Samuel Caruthers O-MO
- Robert Treat Paine O-NC
- Edwin Godwin Reade O-NC
- Aaron Harrison Cragin O-NH
- Isaiah Dunn Clawson O-NJ
- Thomas Child Jr. O-NY
- Bayard Clarke O-NY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson O-NY
- Henry Bennett O-NY
- William Augustus Gilbert O-NY
- Andrew Oliver D-NY
- William Henry Kelsey O-NY
- Jonas Reece Emrie O-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
- John Hickman D-PA
- Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
- John Jamison Pearce O-PA
- David Fullerton Robison O-PA
- John Rufus Edie O-PA
- David Ritchie O-PA
- John Allison O-PA
- David Barclay D-PA
- Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC
- Preston Smith Brooks D-SC
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- Emerson Etheridge O-TN
- Thomas Rivers O-TN
- Peter Hansbrough Bell D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA
- Zedekiah Kidwell D-VA
- James Meacham O-VT
- Charles Billinghurst O-WI
Other votes
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