Senate roll call 142 · 36th Congress · Apr 5, 1860
To amend H.R. 280, securing homesteads for actual settlers on the public domain, by providing that lands granted for homesteads shall be located in alternate qu
On Apr 5, 1860, the Senate voted 17–28 (HR 280). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 17–7, Republicans 0–20, Others 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 7 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
- 17
- No
- 28
- Did not vote
- 25
- Date
- Apr 5, 1860
By party
- Democrats17 yes · 7 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 20 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Milton Slocum Latham D-CA voted no
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL voted no
- Henry Mower Rice D-MN voted no
- Albert Gallatin Brown D-MS voted no
- George Ellis Pugh D-OH voted no
- Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson D-TN voted no
- Andrew Johnson D-TN voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. D-AL
- Robert Ward Johnson D-AR
- William King Sebastian D-AR
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE
- Willard Saulsbury Sr. D-DE
- Alfred Iverson Sr. D-GA
- Graham Newell Fitch D-IN
- Judah Philip Benjamin D-LA
- James Alfred Pearce D-MD
- Trusten Polk D-MO
- Thomas Bragg D-NC
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- James Chesnut Jr. D-SC
- James Henry Hammond D-SC
- Louis Trezevant Wigfall D-TX
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA
How each senator voted: No
- Milton Slocum Latham D-CA
- James Dixon R-CT
- Lafayette Sabine Foster R-CT
- James Harlan R-IA
- James Wilson Grimes R-IA
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- John Jordan Crittenden O-KY
- Charles Sumner R-MA
- Henry Wilson R-MA
- William Pitt Fessenden R-ME
- Kinsley Scott Bingham R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Henry Mower Rice D-MN
- Morton Smith Wilkinson R-MN
- Albert Gallatin Brown D-MS
- Daniel Clark R-NH
- John Conover Ten Eyck R-NJ
- William Henry Seward R-NY
- Benjamin Franklin Wade R-OH
- George Ellis Pugh D-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- James Fowler Simmons R-RI
- Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson D-TN
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- Solomon Foot R-VT
- Charles Durkee R-WI
Did not vote
- David Colbreth Broderick D-CA
- Henry Peter Haun D-CA
- William McKendree Gwin D-CA
- David Levy Yulee D-FL
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- Robert Augustus Toombs D-GA
- Jesse David Bright D-IN
- Lazarus Whitehead Powell D-KY
- John Slidell D-LA
- Anthony Kennedy O-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- James Stephen Green D-MO
- Jefferson Davis D-MS
- John Parker Hale R-NH
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ
- Preston King R-NY
- Edward Dickinson Baker R-OR
- Joseph Lane D-OR
- William Bigler D-PA
- John Hemphill D-TX
- Matthias Ward D-TX
- James Murray Mason D-VA
- Jacob Collamer R-VT
- James Rood Doolittle R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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