House roll call 490 · 35th Congress · Feb 26, 1859
To order the main question which is to adopt the eighth amendment to H.R. 872. (p. 1408-3)
On Feb 26, 1859, the House voted 110–91 (HR 872). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 98–11, Republicans 0–77, Others 12–3. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 11 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
- 110
- No
- 91
- Did not vote
- 44
- Date
- Feb 26, 1859
By party
- Democrats98 yes · 11 no · 26 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 77 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Others12 yes · 3 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Isaac Newton Morris D-IL voted no
- Robert Smith D-IL voted no
- Daniel Edgar Sickles D-NY voted no
- John Bussing Haskin D-NY voted no
- Erastus Corning D-NY voted no
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA voted no
- Henry Myer Phillips D-PA voted no
- Owen Jones D-PA voted no
- John Hickman D-PA voted no
- Wilson Reilly D-PA voted no
- James Lisle Gillis D-PA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Adams Stallworth 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
- Charles Lewis Scott D-CA
- Joseph Chambers Mckibbin D-CA
- Samuel Arnold D-CT
- William Darius Bishop D-CT
- William Gustavus Whiteley D-DE
- George Sydney Hawkins D-FL
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA
- Martin Jenkins Crawford D-GA
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell D-GA
- Augustus Romaldus Wright D-GA
- James Jackson D-GA
- Joshua Hill O-GA
- Charles Drury Hodges D-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- William Hayden English D-IN
- James Hughes D-IN
- James Bradford Foley D-IN
- James Madison Gregg D-IN
- John Givan Davis D-IN
- Henry Cornelius Burnett D-KY
- Samuel Oldham Peyton D-KY
- Warner Lewis Underwood O-KY
- Albert Gallatin Talbott D-KY
- Joshua Husband Jewett D-KY
- John Milton Elliott D-KY
- James Brown Clay D-KY
- John Calvin Mason D-KY
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- George Eustis Jr. O-LA
- Miles Taylor D-LA
- John Milton Sandidge D-LA
- James Barroll Ricaud O-MD
- Thomas Fielder Bowie D-MD
- James Michael Cavanaugh D-MN
- William Wallace Phelps D-MN
- Thomas Lilbourne Anderson O-MO
- John Bullock Clark D-MO
- James Craig D-MO
- Samuel Hughes Woodson O-MO
- John Smith Phelps D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Reuben Davis D-MS
- William Barksdale D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- John Jones Mcrae D-MS
- Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC
- Warren Winslow D-NC
- Lawrence O'Bryan Branch D-NC
- John Adams Gilmer O-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance O-NC
- Garnett Bowditch Adrain D-NJ
- John Huyler D-NJ
- Jacob Reynier Wortendyke D-NJ
- John Alexander Searing D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Barr O-NY
- William Brown Maclay D-NY
- John Cochrane D-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- William Fiero Russell D-NY
- Israel Thompson Hatch D-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- William Slocum Groesbeck D-OH
- Clement Laird Vallandigham D-OH
- Joseph Randolph Cockerill D-OH
- Lawrence Washington Hall D-OH
- Joseph Burns D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Landy D-PA
- Paul Leidy D-PA
- William Harrison Dimmick D-PA
- Allison White D-PA
- John Alexander Ahl D-PA
- William Montgomery D-PA
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- William Porcher Miles D-SC
- Laurence Massillon Keitt 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
- Charles Ready O-TN
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- John Vines Wright D-TN
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer O-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- William Tecumsah Avery D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett D-VA
- John Singleton Millson D-VA
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA
- Paulus Powell D-VA
- William Smith D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-VA
- John Letcher D-VA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA
- George Washington Hopkins D-VA
How each representative voted: No
- Ezra Clark Jr. R-CT
- Sidney Dean R-CT
- Samuel Ryan Curtis R-IA
- Timothy Davis R-IA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne R-IL
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL
- Owen Lovejoy R-IL
- William Kellogg R-IL
- Isaac Newton Morris D-IL
- Robert Smith D-IL
- David Kilgore R-IN
- James Wilson R-IN
- Schuyler Colfax R-IN
- Charles Case R-IN
- John Upfold Pettit R-IN
- 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
- Calvin Clifford Chaffee R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Morrison Harris O-MD
- Henry Winter Davis O-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
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- David Safford Walbridge R-MI
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. O-MO
- James Pike R-NH
- Mason Weare Tappan R-NH
- Isaiah Dunn Clawson R-NJ
- George Robbins Robbins R-NJ
- Daniel Edgar Sickles D-NY
- John Bussing Haskin D-NY
- Ambrose Spencer Murray R-NY
- John Thompson R-NY
- Abram Baldwin Olin R-NY
- Erastus Corning D-NY
- Edward Dodd R-NY
- George William Palmer R-NY
- Francis Elias Spinner R-NY
- Clark Betton Cochrane R-NY
- Oliver Andrew Morse R-NY
- Henry Charles Goodwin R-NY
- Charles Brooks Hoard R-NY
- Amos Phelps Granger R-NY
- Emory Bemsley Pottle R-NY
- John Mason Parker R-NY
- William Henry Kelsey R-NY
- Judson W. Sherman R-NY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- Matthias H. Nichols R-OH
- Richard Mott R-OH
- Aaron Harlan R-OH
- Benjamin Stanton R-OH
- Valentine Baxter Horton R-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Philemon Bliss R-OH
- Cydnor Bailey Tompkins R-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Leiter R-OH
- Edward Wade R-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings R-OH
- John Armor Bingham R-OH
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA
- Edward Joy Morris R-PA
- Henry Myer Phillips D-PA
- Owen Jones D-PA
- John Hickman D-PA
- William High Keim R-PA
- Anthony Ellmaker Roberts R-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow R-PA
- Wilson Reilly D-PA
- John Rufus Edie R-PA
- David Ritchie R-PA
- Samuel Anderson Purviance R-PA
- William Stewart R-PA
- James Lisle Gillis D-PA
- John Dick R-PA
- Nathaniel Briggs Durfee R-RI
- William Daniel Brayton R-RI
- 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
- Eli Sims Shorter D-AL
- Edward Allen Warren D-AR
- Robert Pleasant Trippe O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Thomas Langrell Harris D-IL
- Humphrey Marshall O-KY
- Thomas Green Davidson D-LA
- William Shapleigh Damrell R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- Eli Thayer R-MA
- James Augustus Stewart D-MD
- Jacob Michael Kunkel D-MD
- John M. Wood R-ME
- William Alanson Howard R-MI
- De Witt Clinton Leach R-MI
- Samuel Caruthers D-MO
- John Anthony Quitman D-MS
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- George Taylor D-NY
- John Kelly D-NY
- Horace Francis Clark D-NY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson R-NY
- Henry Bennett R-NY
- Edwin Barber Morgan R-NY
- Samuel George Andrews R-NY
- Silas Mainville Burroughs R-NY
- Lewis Davis Campbell R-OH
- Joseph Miller D-OH
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-OH
- William Lawrence D-OH
- Henry Chapman D-PA
- Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
- John Christian Kunkel R-PA
- William Lewis Dewart D-PA
- John Gallagher Montgomery D-PA
- John Covode R-PA
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- Guy Morrison Bryan D-TX
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- Sherrard Clemens D-VA
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins D-VA
- Charles Billinghurst R-WI
Other votes
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