Senate roll call 52 · 36th Congress · Feb 9, 1860
To print 10,000 additional copies of the annual report of the commissioner of patents on arts and manufactures for 1859, 8000 copies for the Senate and 2000 for
On Feb 9, 1860, the Senate voted 20–30. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 16–11, Republicans 2–19, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 13 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
- 20
- No
- 30
- Did not vote
- 20
- Date
- Feb 9, 1860
By party
- Democrats16 yes · 11 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Republicans2 yes · 19 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL voted no
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. D-AL voted no
- Alfred Iverson Sr. D-GA voted no
- Robert Augustus Toombs D-GA voted no
- Albert Gallatin Brown D-MS voted no
- Jefferson Davis D-MS voted no
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ voted no
- George Ellis Pugh D-OH voted no
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI voted yes
- James Henry Hammond D-SC voted no
- Andrew Johnson D-TN voted no
- James Murray Mason D-VA voted no
- Jacob Collamer R-VT voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Robert Ward Johnson D-AR
- William King Sebastian D-AR
- Henry Peter Haun D-CA
- William McKendree Gwin D-CA
- Willard Saulsbury Sr. D-DE
- Graham Newell Fitch D-IN
- John Jordan Crittenden O-KY
- Lazarus Whitehead Powell D-KY
- Judah Philip Benjamin D-LA
- Anthony Kennedy O-MD
- Henry Mower Rice D-MN
- James Stephen Green D-MO
- Thomas Bragg D-NC
- Joseph Lane D-OR
- William Bigler D-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson D-TN
- John Hemphill D-TX
- Louis Trezevant Wigfall D-TX
- Jacob Collamer R-VT
How each senator voted: No
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. D-AL
- James Dixon R-CT
- Lafayette Sabine Foster R-CT
- Alfred Iverson Sr. D-GA
- Robert Augustus Toombs D-GA
- James Wilson Grimes R-IA
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL
- Charles Sumner R-MA
- Henry Wilson R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- William Pitt Fessenden R-ME
- Kinsley Scott Bingham R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Morton Smith Wilkinson R-MN
- Albert Gallatin Brown D-MS
- Jefferson Davis D-MS
- Daniel Clark R-NH
- John Parker Hale R-NH
- John Conover Ten Eyck R-NJ
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ
- Benjamin Franklin Wade R-OH
- George Ellis Pugh D-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- James Fowler Simmons R-RI
- James Henry Hammond D-SC
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- James Murray Mason D-VA
- Charles Durkee R-WI
- James Rood Doolittle R-WI
Did not vote
- David Colbreth Broderick D-CA
- Milton Slocum Latham D-CA
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE
- David Levy Yulee D-FL
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- James Harlan R-IA
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- Jesse David Bright D-IN
- John Slidell D-LA
- James Alfred Pearce D-MD
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Trusten Polk D-MO
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- Preston King R-NY
- William Henry Seward R-NY
- Edward Dickinson Baker R-OR
- James Chesnut Jr. D-SC
- Matthias Ward D-TX
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA
- Solomon Foot R-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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