House roll call 492 · 35th Congress · Feb 26, 1859
To pass H.R. 872, bill relating to post office appropriat-ions. (p. 914-2)
On Feb 26, 1859, the House voted 108–103 (HR 872). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 89–25, Republicans 6–77, Others 13–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 31 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
- 108
- No
- 103
- Did not vote
- 34
- Date
- Feb 26, 1859
By party
- Democrats89 yes · 25 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Republicans6 yes · 77 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others13 yes · 1 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Adams Stallworth D-AL voted no
- Eli Sims Shorter D-AL voted no
- Sydenham Moore D-AL voted no
- George Smith Houston D-AL voted no
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL voted no
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA voted no
- Martin Jenkins Crawford D-GA voted no
- John Calvin Mason D-KY voted no
- John M. Wood R-ME voted yes
- William Alanson Howard R-MI voted yes
- Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC voted no
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC voted no
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC voted no
- John Bussing Haskin D-NY voted no
- Richard Mott R-OH voted yes
- Valentine Baxter Horton R-OH voted yes
- 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
- Henry Chapman D-PA voted no
- Paul Leidy D-PA voted no
- Wilson Reilly D-PA voted no
- William Montgomery D-PA voted no
- John Dick R-PA voted yes
- John Mcqueen D-SC voted no
- George Washington Jones D-TN voted no
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett D-VA voted no
- John Letcher D-VA voted no
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins D-VA voted no
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Ferguson Dowdell 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
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell D-GA
- Augustus Romaldus Wright D-GA
- James Jackson D-GA
- Joshua Hill O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Isaac Newton Morris D-IL
- Charles Drury Hodges D-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- Robert Smith 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
- Humphrey Marshall O-KY
- James Brown Clay D-KY
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Miles Taylor D-LA
- Thomas Green Davidson D-LA
- John Milton Sandidge D-LA
- James Augustus Stewart D-MD
- James Barroll Ricaud O-MD
- James Morrison Harris O-MD
- Thomas Fielder Bowie D-MD
- John M. Wood R-ME
- William Alanson Howard R-MI
- 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
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC
- Warren Winslow D-NC
- Lawrence O'Bryan Branch D-NC
- John Adams Gilmer O-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance O-NC
- Garnett Bowditch Adrain D-NJ
- John Huyler D-NJ
- Jacob Reynier Wortendyke D-NJ
- Daniel Edgar Sickles 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
- Erastus Corning D-NY
- Israel Thompson Hatch D-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- William Slocum Groesbeck D-OH
- Clement Laird Vallandigham D-OH
- Richard Mott R-OH
- Joseph Randolph Cockerill D-OH
- Lawrence Washington Hall D-OH
- Valentine Baxter Horton R-OH
- Joseph Burns D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Landy D-PA
- William Harrison Dimmick D-PA
- John Alexander Ahl D-PA
- James Lisle Gillis D-PA
- John Dick R-PA
- 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
- 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
- Guy Morrison Bryan D-TX
- John Singleton Millson D-VA
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- Paulus Powell D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-VA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA
- George Washington Hopkins D-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
How each representative voted: No
- James Adams Stallworth D-AL
- Eli Sims Shorter D-AL
- Sydenham Moore D-AL
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
- Ezra Clark Jr. R-CT
- Sidney Dean R-CT
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA
- Martin Jenkins Crawford D-GA
- 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
- David Kilgore R-IN
- James Wilson R-IN
- Charles Case R-IN
- John Upfold Pettit R-IN
- John Calvin Mason 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
- 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
- Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC
- James Pike R-NH
- Mason Weare Tappan R-NH
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Isaiah Dunn Clawson R-NJ
- George Robbins Robbins R-NJ
- John Bussing Haskin D-NY
- Ambrose Spencer Murray R-NY
- John Thompson R-NY
- Abram Baldwin Olin R-NY
- Edward Dodd R-NY
- George William Palmer R-NY
- Francis Elias Spinner R-NY
- Oliver Andrew Morse R-NY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson 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
- Samuel George Andrews R-NY
- Judson W. Sherman R-NY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- Matthias H. Nichols R-OH
- Aaron Harlan R-OH
- Benjamin Stanton 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
- Henry Chapman D-PA
- William High Keim R-PA
- Anthony Ellmaker Roberts R-PA
- John Christian Kunkel R-PA
- Paul Leidy D-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow R-PA
- Wilson Reilly D-PA
- John Rufus Edie R-PA
- John Covode R-PA
- William Montgomery D-PA
- David Ritchie R-PA
- Samuel Anderson Purviance R-PA
- William Stewart R-PA
- Nathaniel Briggs Durfee R-RI
- William Daniel Brayton R-RI
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett D-VA
- John Letcher D-VA
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins D-VA
- Eliakim Persons Walton 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
- Robert Pleasant Trippe O-GA
- Thomas Langrell Harris D-IL
- Schuyler Colfax R-IN
- George Eustis Jr. O-LA
- William Shapleigh Damrell R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- Henry Winter Davis O-MD
- Jacob Michael Kunkel D-MD
- De Witt Clinton Leach R-MI
- Samuel Caruthers D-MO
- John Anthony Quitman D-MS
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- John Alexander Searing D-NY
- George Taylor D-NY
- John Kelly D-NY
- Horace Francis Clark D-NY
- Clark Betton Cochrane R-NY
- Henry Bennett R-NY
- Edwin Barber Morgan 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
- Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
- William Lewis Dewart D-PA
- John Gallagher Montgomery D-PA
- Allison White D-PA
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- William Smith D-VA
- Sherrard Clemens D-VA
- Charles Billinghurst R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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