House roll call 198 · 12th Congress · Apr 8, 1812
To decide if H.R. 183, authorizing the President to appoint additional brigadier generals in certain cases, requires secrecy of discussion.
On Apr 8, 1812, the House voted 5–102 (HR 183). Result: failed. By party: Others 5–102.
During the 12th Congress (1811–1812), James Madison was president.
- Yes
- 5
- No
- 102
- Did not vote
- 40
- Date
- Apr 8, 1812
By party
- Others5 yes · 102 no · 40 didn’t vote
How each representative voted: Yes
- Bolling Hall O-GA
- Charles Turner Jr. O-MA
- William Blackledge O-NC
- Jonathan Roberts O-PA
- Hugh Nelson O-VA
How each representative voted: No
- Benjamin Tallmadge O-CT
- Epaphroditus Champion O-CT
- John Davenport O-CT
- Jonathan Ogden Moseley O-CT
- Lewis Burr Sturges O-CT
- Timothy Pitkin O-CT
- Henry Moore Ridgely O-DE
- George Michael Troup O-GA
- William Wyatt Bibb O-GA
- Anthony New O-KY
- Samuel Mckee O-KY
- Stephen Ormsby O-KY
- Richard Mentor Johnson O-KY
- Joseph Desha O-KY
- Josiah Quincy O-MA
- Leonard White O-MA
- William Ely O-MA
- Samuel Taggart O-MA
- Isaiah Lewis Green O-MA
- Laban Wheaton O-MA
- Elijah Brigham O-MA
- Ezekiel Bacon O-MA
- Ebenezer Seaver O-MA
- William Widgery O-MA
- Philip Stuart O-MD
- Joseph Kent O-MD
- Philip Barton Key O-MD
- Samuel Ringgold O-MD
- Alexander Mckim O-MD
- Peter Little O-MD
- Willis Alston O-NC
- William Rufus de Vane King O-NC
- Nathaniel Macon O-NC
- Archibald Mcbryde O-NC
- Richard Stanford O-NC
- Joseph Pearson O-NC
- Israel Pickens O-NC
- Obed Hall O-NH
- Samuel Dinsmoor O-NH
- Adam Boyd O-NJ
- Jacob Hufty O-NJ
- Thomas Newbold O-NJ
- Ebenezer Sage O-NY
- Samuel Latham Mitchill O-NY
- Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr. O-NY
- James Emott O-NY
- Asa Fitch O-NY
- Harmanus Bleecker O-NY
- Benjamin Pond O-NY
- Silas Stow O-NY
- Thomas Ruggles Gold O-NY
- Arunah Metcalf O-NY
- Uri Tracy O-NY
- Jeremiah Morrow O-OH
- Adam Seybert O-PA
- William Anderson O-PA
- Robert Brown O-PA
- William Rodman O-PA
- John M. Hyneman O-PA
- Joseph Lefever O-PA
- Roger Davis O-PA
- David Bard O-PA
- Robert Whitehill O-PA
- George Smith O-PA
- William Crawford O-PA
- William Piper O-PA
- William Findley O-PA
- John Smilie O-PA
- Aaron Lyle O-PA
- Abner Lacock O-PA
- Elisha Reynolds Potter O-RI
- Richard Jackson Jr. O-RI
- Langdon Cheves O-SC
- William Butler O-SC
- David Rogerson Williams O-SC
- William Lowndes O-SC
- Richard Winn O-SC
- John Caldwell Calhoun O-SC
- Elias Earle O-SC
- John Rhea O-TN
- John Sevier O-TN
- Felix Grundy O-TN
- Thomas Wilson O-VA
- John Baker O-VA
- John Smith O-VA
- William Mccoy O-VA
- James Breckinridge O-VA
- Daniel Sheffey O-VA
- Joseph Lewis Jr. O-VA
- John Taliaferro O-VA
- Aylett Hawes O-VA
- John Dawson O-VA
- William Armisted Burwell O-VA
- John Randolph O-VA
- James Pleasants O-VA
- Thomas Gholson Jr. O-VA
- Thomas Newton Jr. O-VA
- John Clopton O-VA
- Samuel Shaw O-VT
- William Strong O-VT
- James Fisk O-VT
- Martin Chittenden O-VT
Did not vote
- Lyman Law O-CT
- Howell Cobb O-GA
- William Barnett O-GA
- Henry Clay O-KY
- Thomas Bolling Robertson O-LA
- William Reed O-MA
- William Merchant Richardson O-MA
- Abijah Bigelow O-MA
- Richard Cutts O-MA
- Peleg Tallman O-MA
- Francis Carr O-MA
- Stevenson Archer O-MD
- Robert Wright O-MD
- Charles Goldsborough O-MD
- Lemuel Sawyer O-NC
- Thomas Blount O-NC
- William Kennedy O-NC
- James Cochran O-NC
- Meshack Franklin O-NC
- George Sullivan O-NH
- John Adams Harper O-NH
- Josiah Bartlett Jr. O-NH
- George Clifford Maxwell O-NJ
- James Morgan O-NJ
- Lewis Condict O-NJ
- William Paulding Jr. O-NY
- Thomas Burrage Cooke O-NY
- Robert Le Roy Livingston O-NY
- Thomas Peabody Grosvenor O-NY
- Thomas Sammons O-NY
- Daniel Avery O-NY
- Peter Buell Porter O-NY
- James Milnor O-PA
- Thomas Moore O-SC
- John Pratt Hungerford O-VA
- John Roane O-VA
- Burwell Bassett O-VA
- Matthew Clay O-VA
- Peterson Goodwyn O-VA
- Edwin Gray O-VA
Other votes
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