Senate roll call 8 · 37th Congress · Mar 14, 1861
To amend the resolution concerning senators from seceding states by putting into same, the facts as they exist, and not making it appear that the senators have
On Mar 14, 1861, the Senate voted 12–26. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–25, Democrats 12–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 1 member voted against their own party.
During the 37th Congress (1861–1862), Abraham Lincoln was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 12
- No
- 26
- Did not vote
- 35
- Date
- Mar 14, 1861
By party
- Democrats12 yes · 1 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 25 no · 11 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Charles Burton Mitchel D-AR
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE
- Jesse David Bright D-IN
- John Cabell Breckinridge D-KY
- Lazarus Whitehead Powell D-KY
- Henry Mower Rice D-MN
- Trusten Polk D-MO
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ
- Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson D-TN
- James Murray Mason D-VA
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA
How each senator voted: No
- Lafayette Sabine Foster R-CT
- James Harlan R-IA
- James Wilson Grimes R-IA
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- Henry Smith Lane R-IN
- Charles Sumner R-MA
- Henry Wilson R-MA
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- William Pitt Fessenden R-ME
- Kinsley Scott Bingham R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Morton Smith Wilkinson R-MN
- Daniel Clark R-NH
- John Conover Ten Eyck R-NJ
- Ira Harris R-NY
- Preston King R-NY
- Benjamin Franklin Wade R-OH
- Edward Dickinson Baker R-OR
- Edgar Cowan R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- James Fowler Simmons R-RI
- Jacob Collamer R-VT
- Solomon Foot R-VT
- James Rood Doolittle R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Did not vote
- William King Sebastian D-AR
- James Alexander Mcdougall D-CA
- Milton Slocum Latham D-CA
- James Dixon R-CT
- Willard Saulsbury Sr. D-DE
- Orville Hickman Browning R-IL
- William Alexander Richardson D-IL
- David Turpie D-IN
- Joseph Albert Wright O-IN
- James Henry Lane R-KS
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy R-KS
- Garrett Davis O-KY
- Anthony Kennedy O-MD
- James Alfred Pearce D-MD
- Thomas Holliday Hicks O-MD
- Jacob Merritt Howard R-MI
- John Brooks Henderson O-MO
- Robert Wilson O-MO
- Waldo Porter Johnson D-MO
- Thomas Bragg D-NC
- John Parker Hale R-NH
- James Walter Wall D-NJ
- Richard Stockton Field R-NJ
- John Sherman R-OH
- Salmon Portland Chase R-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Harding D-OR
- Benjamin Stark D-OR
- James Willis Nesmith D-OR
- David Wilmot R-PA
- Samuel Greene Arnold R-RI
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- John Hemphill D-TX
- Louis Trezevant Wigfall D-TX
- John Snyder Carlile O-VA
- Waitman Thomas Willey O-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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