To recede from disagreement to the Senate amendment to H.R. 166, which amendment retains the rank of major general.

On May 23, 1796, the House voted 37–45 (HR 166). Result: failed. By party: Others 37–45.

During the 4th Congress (1795–1796), George Washington was president.

Yes: 37
No: 45
Did not vote: 33
Date: May 23, 1796

By party

Others37 yes · 45 no · 33 didn’t vote

How each representative voted: Yes

Chauncey Goodrich O-CT
Joshua Coit O-CT
Nathaniel Smith O-CT
Roger Griswold O-CT
Uriah Tracy O-CT
John Milledge O-GA
Samuel Lyman O-MA
Dwight Foster O-MA
John Reed O-MA
Fisher Ames O-MA
Theophilus Bradbury O-MA
Peleg Wadsworth O-MA
George Thacher O-MA
William Hindman O-MD
William Vans Murray O-MD
Abiel Foster O-NH
Jeremiah Smith O-NH
Nicholas Gilman O-NH
Isaac Smith O-NJ
Mark Thomson O-NJ
Thomas Henderson O-NJ
Ezekiel Gilbert O-NY
John Evert Van Alen O-NY
Henry Glen O-NY
William Cooper O-NY
John Swanwick O-PA
Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg O-PA
Richard Thomas O-PA
Samuel Sitgreaves O-PA
John Wilkes Kittera O-PA
Andrew Gregg O-PA
William Findley O-PA
Benjamin Bourne O-RI
Francis Malbone O-RI
William Loughton Smith O-SC
Robert Goodloe Harper O-SC
Robert Rutherford O-VA

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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