House roll call 425 · 35th Congress · Feb 1, 1859
To table H.R. 552, a bill to provide for ascertainment and satisfaction of claims of american citizens for spoliations committed by french prior to july 3, 1801
On Feb 1, 1859, the House voted 75–106 (HR 552). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 65–33, Republicans 8–64, Others 3–9. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 41 members voted against their own party.
During the 35th Congress (1857–1858), James Buchanan was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 75
- No
- 106
- Did not vote
- 63
- Date
- Feb 1, 1859
By party
- Democrats65 yes · 33 no · 37 didn’t vote
- Republicans8 yes · 64 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 9 no · 5 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Joseph Chambers Mckibbin D-CA voted no
- William Darius Bishop D-CT voted no
- William Gustavus Whiteley D-DE voted no
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA voted no
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne R-IL voted yes
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL voted yes
- Owen Lovejoy R-IL voted yes
- Isaac Newton Morris D-IL voted no
- Charles Drury Hodges D-IL voted no
- Aaron Shaw D-IL voted no
- Robert Smith D-IL voted no
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL voted no
- David Kilgore R-IN voted yes
- James Brown Clay D-KY voted no
- Thomas Fielder Bowie D-MD voted no
- James Craig D-MO voted no
- John Jones Mcrae D-MS voted no
- Garnett Bowditch Adrain D-NJ voted no
- Jacob Reynier Wortendyke D-NJ voted no
- John Alexander Searing D-NY voted no
- George Taylor D-NY voted no
- William Brown Maclay D-NY voted no
- John Cochrane D-NY voted no
- Elijah Ward D-NY voted no
- John Bussing Haskin D-NY voted no
- William Fiero Russell D-NY voted no
- Israel Thompson Hatch D-NY voted no
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH voted no
- Matthias H. Nichols R-OH voted yes
- Aaron Harlan R-OH voted yes
- Lawrence Washington Hall D-OH voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Leiter R-OH voted yes
- Joshua Reed Giddings R-OH voted yes
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA voted no
- John Hickman D-PA voted no
- John Alexander Ahl D-PA voted no
- Wilson Reilly D-PA voted no
- William Porcher Miles D-SC voted no
- William Tecumsah Avery D-TN voted no
- William Smith D-VA voted no
- John Letcher D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Adams Stallworth D-AL
- Eli Sims Shorter D-AL
- James Ferguson Dowdell D-AL
- Sydenham Moore D-AL
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
- Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry D-AL
- Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA
- Martin Jenkins Crawford D-GA
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell D-GA
- Augustus Romaldus Wright D-GA
- James Jackson D-GA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne R-IL
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL
- Owen Lovejoy R-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- William Hayden English D-IN
- James Hughes D-IN
- James Bradford Foley D-IN
- David Kilgore R-IN
- James Madison Gregg D-IN
- John Givan Davis D-IN
- Henry Cornelius Burnett D-KY
- Samuel Oldham Peyton D-KY
- Joshua Husband Jewett D-KY
- John Milton Elliott D-KY
- John Calvin Mason D-KY
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Miles Taylor D-LA
- Jacob Michael Kunkel D-MD
- William Wallace Phelps D-MN
- John Bullock Clark D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- William Barksdale D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC
- Warren Winslow D-NC
- Lawrence O'Bryan Branch D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance O-NC
- Thomas Jefferson Barr O-NY
- William Slocum Groesbeck D-OH
- Clement Laird Vallandigham D-OH
- Matthias H. Nichols R-OH
- Joseph Randolph Cockerill D-OH
- Aaron Harlan R-OH
- Joseph Miller D-OH
- Joseph Burns D-OH
- William Lawrence D-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Leiter R-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings R-OH
- Owen Jones D-PA
- Henry Chapman D-PA
- Allison White D-PA
- William Montgomery D-PA
- James Lisle Gillis D-PA
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- Milledge Luke Bonham D-SC
- William Waters Boyce D-SC
- Albert Galiton Watkins D-TN
- Horace Maynard O-TN
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN
- John Houston Savage D-TN
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- John Vines Wright D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett D-VA
- John Singleton Millson D-VA
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-VA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA
- George Washington Hopkins D-VA
How each representative voted: No
- Joseph Chambers Mckibbin D-CA
- Sidney Dean R-CT
- William Darius Bishop D-CT
- William Gustavus Whiteley D-DE
- Robert Pleasant Trippe O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Timothy Davis R-IA
- Isaac Newton Morris D-IL
- Charles Drury Hodges D-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- Robert Smith D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- James Wilson R-IN
- Schuyler Colfax R-IN
- Charles Case R-IN
- Warner Lewis Underwood O-KY
- Humphrey Marshall O-KY
- James Brown Clay D-KY
- Robert Bernard Hall R-MA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Linus Bacon Comins R-MA
- Anson Burlingame R-MA
- Timothy Davis R-MA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch R-MA
- Chauncey Langdon Knapp R-MA
- Eli Thayer R-MA
- Calvin Clifford Chaffee R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Barroll Ricaud O-MD
- James Morrison Harris O-MD
- Henry Winter Davis O-MD
- Thomas Fielder Bowie D-MD
- Charles Jervis Gilman R-ME
- Nehemiah Abbott R-ME
- Freeman Harlow Morse R-ME
- Israel Washburn Jr. R-ME
- Stephen Clark Foster R-ME
- William Alanson Howard R-MI
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- David Safford Walbridge R-MI
- De Witt Clinton Leach R-MI
- Thomas Lilbourne Anderson O-MO
- James Craig D-MO
- Samuel Hughes Woodson O-MO
- John Jones Mcrae D-MS
- James Pike R-NH
- Mason Weare Tappan R-NH
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Isaiah Dunn Clawson R-NJ
- George Robbins Robbins R-NJ
- Garnett Bowditch Adrain D-NJ
- Jacob Reynier Wortendyke D-NJ
- John Alexander Searing D-NY
- George Taylor D-NY
- William Brown Maclay D-NY
- John Cochrane D-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- John Bussing Haskin D-NY
- Ambrose Spencer Murray R-NY
- William Fiero Russell D-NY
- Abram Baldwin Olin R-NY
- Edward Dodd R-NY
- Clark Betton Cochrane R-NY
- Oliver Andrew Morse R-NY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson R-NY
- Henry Bennett R-NY
- Henry Charles Goodwin R-NY
- Charles Brooks Hoard R-NY
- Amos Phelps Granger R-NY
- Edwin Barber Morgan R-NY
- Emory Bemsley Pottle R-NY
- John Mason Parker R-NY
- William Henry Kelsey R-NY
- Samuel George Andrews R-NY
- Israel Thompson Hatch D-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- Benjamin Stanton R-OH
- Lawrence Washington Hall D-OH
- Valentine Baxter Horton R-OH
- Philemon Bliss R-OH
- Cydnor Bailey Tompkins R-OH
- Edward Wade R-OH
- John Armor Bingham R-OH
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA
- Edward Joy Morris R-PA
- John Hickman D-PA
- William High Keim R-PA
- Anthony Ellmaker Roberts R-PA
- John Christian Kunkel R-PA
- John Alexander Ahl D-PA
- Wilson Reilly D-PA
- John Covode R-PA
- Samuel Anderson Purviance R-PA
- William Stewart R-PA
- Nathaniel Briggs Durfee R-RI
- William Daniel Brayton R-RI
- William Porcher Miles D-SC
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer O-TN
- William Tecumsah Avery D-TN
- William Smith D-VA
- John Letcher D-VA
- Eliakim Persons Walton R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Homer Elihu Royce R-VT
- John Fox Potter R-WI
- Cadwallader Colden Washburn R-WI
Did not vote
- Edward Allen Warren D-AR
- Charles Lewis Scott D-CA
- Ezra Clark Jr. R-CT
- Samuel Arnold D-CT
- George Sydney Hawkins D-FL
- Joshua Hill O-GA
- Samuel Ryan Curtis R-IA
- William Kellogg R-IL
- Thomas Langrell Harris D-IL
- John Upfold Pettit R-IN
- Albert Gallatin Talbott D-KY
- George Eustis Jr. O-LA
- Thomas Green Davidson D-LA
- John Milton Sandidge D-LA
- William Shapleigh Damrell R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- James Augustus Stewart D-MD
- John M. Wood R-ME
- James Michael Cavanaugh D-MN
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. O-MO
- John Smith Phelps D-MO
- Samuel Caruthers D-MO
- Reuben Davis D-MS
- John Anthony Quitman D-MS
- John Adams Gilmer O-NC
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- John Huyler D-NJ
- Daniel Edgar Sickles D-NY
- John Kelly D-NY
- Horace Francis Clark D-NY
- John Thompson R-NY
- Erastus Corning D-NY
- George William Palmer R-NY
- Francis Elias Spinner R-NY
- Judson W. Sherman R-NY
- Silas Mainville Burroughs R-NY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- Lewis Davis Campbell R-OH
- Richard Mott R-OH
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Landy D-PA
- Henry Myer Phillips D-PA
- Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
- William Lewis Dewart D-PA
- John Gallagher Montgomery D-PA
- Paul Leidy D-PA
- William Harrison Dimmick D-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow R-PA
- John Rufus Edie R-PA
- David Ritchie R-PA
- John Dick R-PA
- Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- Charles Ready O-TN
- Guy Morrison Bryan D-TX
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- Paulus Powell D-VA
- Sherrard Clemens D-VA
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins D-VA
- Charles Billinghurst R-WI
Other votes
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