House roll call 4 · 36th Congress · Dec 6, 1859
To adjourn, until a more quiet session. (p. 25-1)
On Dec 6, 1859, the House voted 68–163. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 3–110, Democrats 45–36, Others 20–17. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 39 members voted against their own party.
During the 36th Congress (1859–1860), James Buchanan was president, and Republicans held the House majority and Democrats the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 68
- No
- 163
- Did not vote
- 13
- Date
- Dec 6, 1859
By party
- Democrats45 yes · 36 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Republicans3 yes · 110 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Others20 yes · 17 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL voted no
- David Clopton D-AL voted no
- Sydenham Moore D-AL voted no
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL voted no
- Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry D-AL voted no
- Thomas Carmichael Hindman D-AR voted no
- Albert Rust D-AR voted no
- Charles Lewis Scott D-CA voted no
- Martin Jenkins Crawford D-GA voted no
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell D-GA voted no
- John James Jones D-GA voted no
- Isaac Newton Morris D-IL voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- William Emmett Simms D-KY voted no
- John White Stevenson D-KY voted no
- Miles Taylor D-LA voted no
- George Wurtz Hughes D-MD voted no
- George Byran Cooper D-MI voted no
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS voted no
- William Barksdale D-MS voted no
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS voted no
- John Jones Mcrae D-MS voted no
- Warren Winslow D-NC voted no
- George Briggs R-NY voted yes
- Clark Betton Cochrane R-NY voted yes
- Benjamin Stanton R-OH voted yes
- Charles Drake Martin D-OH voted no
- Lansing Stout D-OR voted no
- John Mcqueen D-SC voted no
- William Porcher Miles D-SC voted no
- Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC voted no
- John Vines Wright D-TN voted no
- William Tecumsah Avery D-TN voted no
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX voted no
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett D-VA voted no
- Roger Atkinson Pryor D-VA voted no
- William Smith D-VA voted no
- Sherrard Clemens D-VA voted no
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- John Chilton Burch D-CA
- William Gustavus Whiteley D-DE
- George Sydney Hawkins D-FL
- Peter Early Love D-GA
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. O-GA
- John William Henderson Underwood D-GA
- James Jackson D-GA
- Joshua Hill O-GA
- John Alexander Mcclernand D-IL
- James Carroll Robinson D-IL
- Philip Bond Fouke D-IL
- John Alexander Logan D-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- William Hayden English D-IN
- Henry Cornelius Burnett D-KY
- Samuel Oldham Peyton D-KY
- Francis Marion Bristow O-KY
- Robert Mallory O-KY
- Thomas Green Davidson D-LA
- James Augustus Stewart D-MD
- Edwin Hanson Webster O-MD
- James Morrison Harris O-MD
- Henry Winter Davis O-MD
- Jacob Michael Kunkel D-MD
- John Richard Barret D-MO
- Thomas Lilbourne Anderson O-MO
- John Bullock Clark D-MO
- James Craig D-MO
- Samuel Hughes Woodson O-MO
- John Smith Phelps D-MO
- John William Noell D-MO
- William Nathan Harrell Smith O-NC
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC
- Lawrence O'Bryan Branch D-NC
- John Adams Gilmer O-NC
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance O-NC
- Jetur Rose Riggs O-NJ
- Daniel Edgar Sickles D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Barr O-NY
- William Brown Maclay D-NY
- John Cochrane D-NY
- George Briggs R-NY
- Horace Francis Clark O-NY
- John Hazard Reynolds O-NY
- Clark Betton Cochrane R-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- Clement Laird Vallandigham D-OH
- William Allen D-OH
- William Howard D-OH
- Benjamin Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-OH
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA
- William Harrison Dimmick D-PA
- William Montgomery D-PA
- Milledge Luke Bonham D-SC
- John Durant Ashmore D-SC
- William Waters Boyce D-SC
- Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson O-TN
- Horace Maynard O-TN
- Robert Hopkins Hatton O-TN
- James Houston Thomas D-TN
- James Minor Quarles O-TN
- John Singleton Millson D-VA
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA
- Charles Hathaway Larrabee D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- David Clopton D-AL
- Sydenham Moore D-AL
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
- Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry D-AL
- Thomas Carmichael Hindman D-AR
- Albert Rust D-AR
- Charles Lewis Scott D-CA
- Dwight Loomis R-CT
- John Woodruff R-CT
- Alfred Avery Burnham R-CT
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- Martin Jenkins Crawford D-GA
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell D-GA
- John James Jones D-GA
- Samuel Ryan Curtis R-IA
- William Vandever 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
- William McKee Dunn R-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- David Kilgore R-IN
- Albert Gallatin Porter R-IN
- John Givan Davis O-IN
- James Wilson R-IN
- Schuyler Colfax R-IN
- Charles Case R-IN
- John Upfold Pettit R-IN
- William Clayton Anderson O-KY
- William Emmett Simms D-KY
- Laban Theodore Moore O-KY
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- John Edward Bouligny O-LA
- Miles Taylor D-LA
- Thomas Dawes Eliot R-MA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Charles Francis Adams R-MA
- Alexander Hamilton Rice R-MA
- Anson Burlingame R-MA
- John Bassett Alley R-MA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch R-MA
- Charles Russell Train R-MA
- Eli Thayer R-MA
- Charles Delano R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Wurtz Hughes D-MD
- Daniel Eton Somes R-ME
- John Jasiel Perry R-ME
- Ezra Bartlett French R-ME
- Freeman Harlow Morse R-ME
- Israel Washburn Jr. R-ME
- Stephen Clark Foster R-ME
- George Byran Cooper D-MI
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- Francis William Kellogg R-MI
- De Witt Clinton Leach R-MI
- Cyrus Aldrich R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- William Barksdale D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- John Jones Mcrae D-MS
- Warren Winslow D-NC
- James Madison Leach O-NC
- Gilman Marston R-NH
- Mason Weare Tappan R-NH
- Thomas McKey Edwards R-NH
- John Thompson Nixon R-NJ
- John Leake Newbold Stratton R-NJ
- William Pennington R-NJ
- Luther Cullen Carter R-NY
- James Humphrey R-NY
- John Bussing Haskin O-NY
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NY
- William Scheuneman Kenyon R-NY
- Charles Lewis Beale R-NY
- Abram Baldwin Olin R-NY
- James Bedell Mckean R-NY
- George William Palmer R-NY
- Francis Elias Spinner R-NY
- James Harper Graham R-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Rodolphus Holland Duell R-NY
- Moses Lindley Lee R-NY
- Charles Brooks Hoard R-NY
- Charles Baldwin Sedgwick R-NY
- Martin Butterfield R-NY
- Emory Bemsley Pottle R-NY
- Alfred Wells R-NY
- William Irvine R-NY
- Alfred Ely R-NY
- Augustus Frank R-NY
- Silas Mainville Burroughs R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Spaulding R-NY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- John Addison Gurley R-OH
- James Mitchell Ashley R-OH
- Thomas Corwin R-OH
- John Carey R-OH
- Carey Allen Trimble R-OH
- Charles Drake Martin D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Harrison Gray Otis Blake R-OH
- William Helmick R-OH
- Cydnor Bailey Tompkins R-OH
- Thomas Clarke Theaker R-OH
- Sidney Edgerton R-OH
- Edward Wade R-OH
- John Hutchins R-OH
- John Armor Bingham R-OH
- Lansing Stout D-OR
- Edward Joy Morris R-PA
- John Paul Verree R-PA
- William Millward R-PA
- John Wood R-PA
- John Hickman O-PA
- Henry Clay Longnecker R-PA
- John Schwartz O-PA
- Thaddeus Stevens R-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- James Hepburn Campbell R-PA
- George Whitfield Scranton R-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow R-PA
- James Tracy Hale R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin Junkin R-PA
- Edward Mcpherson R-PA
- Samuel Steel Blair R-PA
- John Covode R-PA
- James Kennedy Moorhead R-PA
- Robert Mcknight R-PA
- William Stewart R-PA
- Chapin Hall R-PA
- Elijah Babbitt R-PA
- Christopher Robinson R-RI
- William Daniel Brayton R-RI
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- William Porcher Miles D-SC
- Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC
- Reese Bowen Brabson O-TN
- William Brickly Stokes O-TN
- John Vines Wright D-TN
- Emerson Etheridge O-TN
- William Tecumsah Avery D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Hamilton O-TX
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett D-VA
- Daniel Coleman De Jarnette O-VA
- Roger Atkinson Pryor D-VA
- Shelton Farrar Leake O-VA
- William Smith D-VA
- Alexander Robinson Boteler O-VA
- John Thomas Harris O-VA
- Sherrard Clemens D-VA
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins D-VA
- Elbert Sevier Martin O-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
- James Adams Stallworth D-AL
- Martin Franklin Conway R-KS
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Green Adams O-KY
- John Morgan Landrum D-LA
- Stephen Coburn R-ME
- William Alanson Howard R-MI
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. R-MO
- Reuben Davis D-MS
- Garnett Bowditch Adrain O-NJ
- Edwin Ruthvin Reynolds R-NY
- Jacob Kerlin Mckenty D-PA
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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