House roll call 55 · 35th Congress · Feb 5, 1858
To adjourn.
On Feb 5, 1858, the House voted 70–96. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 64–18, Republicans 0–76, Others 6–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 18 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
- 70
- No
- 96
- Did not vote
- 79
- Date
- Feb 5, 1858
By party
- Democrats64 yes · 18 no · 53 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 76 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Others6 yes · 2 no · 9 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Isaac Newton Morris D-IL voted no
- Thomas Langrell Harris D-IL voted no
- Aaron Shaw D-IL voted no
- Robert Smith D-IL voted no
- William Hayden English D-IN voted no
- James Bradford Foley D-IN voted no
- John Givan Davis D-IN voted no
- John Bussing Haskin D-NY voted no
- Israel Thompson Hatch D-NY voted no
- Joseph Randolph Cockerill D-OH voted no
- Lawrence Washington Hall D-OH voted no
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-OH voted no
- Owen Jones D-PA voted no
- John Hickman D-PA voted no
- Henry Chapman D-PA voted no
- William Lewis Dewart D-PA voted no
- Wilson Reilly D-PA voted no
- William Montgomery D-PA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- 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
- Samuel Arnold D-CT
- William Gustavus Whiteley D-DE
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA
- Martin Jenkins Crawford D-GA
- Robert Pleasant Trippe O-GA
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell D-GA
- James Jackson D-GA
- Joshua Hill O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- James Hughes D-IN
- James Madison Gregg D-IN
- Henry Cornelius Burnett D-KY
- Joshua Husband Jewett D-KY
- Humphrey Marshall O-KY
- James Brown Clay D-KY
- John Calvin Mason D-KY
- Jacob Michael Kunkel D-MD
- Thomas Fielder Bowie D-MD
- Thomas Lilbourne Anderson O-MO
- John Bullock Clark D-MO
- James Craig D-MO
- John Smith Phelps D-MO
- Reuben Davis D-MS
- William Barksdale D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- John Anthony Quitman D-MS
- Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC
- John Huyler D-NJ
- Jacob Reynier Wortendyke D-NJ
- Daniel Edgar Sickles D-NY
- John Cochrane D-NY
- William Fiero Russell D-NY
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA
- James Landy D-PA
- Henry Myer Phillips D-PA
- Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
- Paul Leidy D-PA
- Allison White D-PA
- John Alexander Ahl D-PA
- James Lisle Gillis D-PA
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- William Porcher Miles D-SC
- Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC
- Horace Maynard O-TN
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN
- John Houston Savage D-TN
- Charles Ready O-TN
- John Vines Wright D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- William Tecumsah Avery D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Guy Morrison Bryan D-TX
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett D-VA
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA
- Paulus Powell D-VA
- John Letcher D-VA
- Sherrard Clemens 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
- 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
- Thomas Langrell Harris D-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- Robert Smith D-IL
- William Hayden English D-IN
- James Bradford Foley D-IN
- David Kilgore R-IN
- John Givan Davis D-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
- 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
- John M. Wood R-ME
- Charles Jervis Gilman R-ME
- Nehemiah Abbott R-ME
- Israel Washburn Jr. R-ME
- Stephen Clark Foster R-ME
- William Alanson Howard R-MI
- David Safford Walbridge R-MI
- De Witt Clinton Leach 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
- John Bussing Haskin D-NY
- Abram Baldwin Olin R-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 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
- Judson W. Sherman R-NY
- Silas Mainville Burroughs R-NY
- Israel Thompson Hatch D-NY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- Lewis Davis Campbell R-OH
- Matthias H. Nichols R-OH
- Richard Mott R-OH
- Joseph Randolph Cockerill D-OH
- Aaron Harlan R-OH
- Benjamin Stanton R-OH
- Lawrence Washington Hall D-OH
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Philemon Bliss R-OH
- Cydnor Bailey Tompkins R-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Leiter R-OH
- Edward Wade R-OH
- John Armor Bingham R-OH
- Edward Joy Morris R-PA
- Owen Jones D-PA
- John Hickman D-PA
- Henry Chapman D-PA
- Anthony Ellmaker Roberts R-PA
- John Christian Kunkel R-PA
- William Lewis Dewart D-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow R-PA
- Wilson Reilly D-PA
- John Covode R-PA
- William Montgomery D-PA
- Samuel Anderson Purviance R-PA
- William Stewart R-PA
- 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
- Charles Billinghurst R-WI
Did not vote
- James Adams Stallworth D-AL
- Edward Allen Warren D-AR
- Charles Lewis Scott D-CA
- Joseph Chambers Mckibbin D-CA
- William Darius Bishop D-CT
- George Sydney Hawkins D-FL
- Augustus Romaldus Wright D-GA
- Samuel Ryan Curtis R-IA
- Charles Drury Hodges D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- Samuel Oldham Peyton D-KY
- Warner Lewis Underwood O-KY
- Albert Gallatin Talbott D-KY
- John Milton Elliott D-KY
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- George Eustis Jr. O-LA
- Miles Taylor D-LA
- Thomas Green Davidson D-LA
- John Milton Sandidge D-LA
- William Shapleigh Damrell R-MA
- Timothy Davis R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- James Augustus Stewart D-MD
- James Morrison Harris O-MD
- Henry Winter Davis O-MD
- Freeman Harlow Morse R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- James Michael Cavanaugh D-MN
- William Wallace Phelps D-MN
- Samuel Hughes Woodson O-MO
- Samuel Caruthers D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- John Jones Mcrae D-MS
- Warren Winslow D-NC
- Lawrence O'Bryan Branch D-NC
- John Adams Gilmer O-NC
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance O-NC
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Garnett Bowditch Adrain D-NJ
- John Alexander Searing D-NY
- George Taylor D-NY
- John Kelly D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Barr O-NY
- William Brown Maclay D-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- Horace Francis Clark D-NY
- Ambrose Spencer Murray R-NY
- John Thompson R-NY
- Erastus Corning D-NY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson R-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- William Slocum Groesbeck D-OH
- Clement Laird Vallandigham D-OH
- Joseph Miller D-OH
- Valentine Baxter Horton R-OH
- Joseph Burns D-OH
- William Lawrence D-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings R-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- William High Keim R-PA
- John Gallagher Montgomery D-PA
- William Harrison Dimmick D-PA
- John Rufus Edie R-PA
- David Ritchie R-PA
- John Dick R-PA
- Nathaniel Briggs Durfee R-RI
- Milledge Luke Bonham D-SC
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- William Waters Boyce D-SC
- Albert Galiton Watkins D-TN
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer O-TN
- John Singleton Millson D-VA
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- William Smith D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-VA
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.