Senate roll call 654 · 37th Congress · Feb 7, 1863
To amend H.R. 634 by providing that the funds appropriated be restricted to the sole purposes expressed in the bill, that no part be used for salaries or otherw
On Feb 7, 1863, the Senate voted 9–28 (HR 634). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–26, Others 4–2, Democrats 5–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 37th Congress (1861–1862), Abraham Lincoln was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 9
- No
- 28
- Did not vote
- 36
- Date
- Feb 7, 1863
By party
- Democrats5 yes · 0 no · 24 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 26 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others4 yes · 2 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each senator voted: Yes
- Milton Slocum Latham D-CA
- Garrett Davis O-KY
- Lazarus Whitehead Powell D-KY
- Thomas Holliday Hicks O-MD
- Henry Mower Rice D-MN
- Robert Wilson O-MO
- James Walter Wall D-NJ
- James Willis Nesmith D-OR
- John Snyder Carlile O-VA
How each senator voted: No
- James Dixon R-CT
- Lafayette Sabine Foster R-CT
- James Harlan R-IA
- James Wilson Grimes R-IA
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL
- Henry Smith Lane R-IN
- James Henry Lane R-KS
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy R-KS
- Charles Sumner R-MA
- Henry Wilson R-MA
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- William Pitt Fessenden R-ME
- Jacob Merritt Howard R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- John Brooks Henderson O-MO
- Daniel Clark R-NH
- John Conover Ten Eyck R-NJ
- Ira Harris R-NY
- Preston King R-NY
- Benjamin Franklin Wade R-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- David Wilmot R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Samuel Greene Arnold R-RI
- Waitman Thomas Willey O-VA
- Solomon Foot R-VT
- James Rood Doolittle R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Did not vote
- Charles Burton Mitchel D-AR
- William King Sebastian D-AR
- James Alexander Mcdougall D-CA
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE
- Willard Saulsbury Sr. D-DE
- Orville Hickman Browning R-IL
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- William Alexander Richardson D-IL
- David Turpie D-IN
- Jesse David Bright D-IN
- Joseph Albert Wright O-IN
- John Cabell Breckinridge D-KY
- Anthony Kennedy O-MD
- James Alfred Pearce D-MD
- Kinsley Scott Bingham R-MI
- Morton Smith Wilkinson R-MN
- Trusten Polk D-MO
- Waldo Porter Johnson D-MO
- Thomas Bragg D-NC
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- John Parker Hale R-NH
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ
- Richard Stockton Field R-NJ
- Salmon Portland Chase R-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Harding D-OR
- Benjamin Stark D-OR
- Edward Dickinson Baker R-OR
- Edgar Cowan R-PA
- James Fowler Simmons R-RI
- Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson D-TN
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- John Hemphill D-TX
- Louis Trezevant Wigfall D-TX
- James Murray Mason D-VA
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA
- Jacob Collamer R-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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