Senate roll call 159 · 19th Congress · Feb 6, 1827
To refer the bankruptcy bill to the committee on the judiciary with instructions to report the bill back, includ-ing banking corporations within the provisions
On Feb 6, 1827, the Senate voted 12–35. Result: failed. By party: Others 12–35.
During the 19th Congress (1825–1826), John Quincy Adams was president.
- Yes
- 12
- No
- 35
- Did not vote
- 13
- Date
- Feb 6, 1827
By party
- Others12 yes · 35 no · 13 didn’t vote
How each senator voted: Yes
- Thomas Willis Cobb O-GA
- James Noble O-IN
- William Hendricks O-IN
- David Barton O-MO
- Thomas Hart Benton O-MO
- Thomas Buck Reed O-MS
- John Branch O-NC
- Nathaniel Macon O-NC
- Mahlon Dickerson O-NJ
- William Smith O-SC
- Hugh Lawson White O-TN
- John Randolph O-VA
How each senator voted: No
- John Mckinley O-AL
- William Rufus de Vane King O-AL
- Calvin Willey O-CT
- Henry Waggaman Edwards O-CT
- Henry Moore Ridgely O-DE
- Thomas Clayton O-DE
- John Macpherson Berrien O-GA
- Elias Kent Kane O-IL
- Jesse Burgess Thomas O-IL
- John Rowan O-KY
- Richard Mentor Johnson O-KY
- Josiah Stoddard Johnston O-LA
- Elijah Hunt Mills O-MA
- Nathaniel Silsbee O-MA
- Ezekiel Forman Chambers O-MD
- Samuel Smith O-MD
- John Chandler O-ME
- John Holmes O-ME
- Thomas Hill Williams O-MS
- Levi Woodbury O-NH
- Samuel Bell O-NH
- Ephraim Bateman O-NJ
- Martin Van Buren O-NY
- Nathan Sanford O-NY
- Benjamin Ruggles O-OH
- William Henry Harrison O-OH
- William Findlay O-PA
- William Marks O-PA
- Asher Robbins O-RI
- Nehemiah Rice Knight O-RI
- Robert Young Hayne O-SC
- John Henry Eaton O-TN
- Littleton Waller Tazewell O-VA
- Dudley Chase O-VT
- Horatio Seymour O-VT
Did not vote
- Henry H. Chambers O-AL
- Israel Pickens O-AL
- Daniel Rodney O-DE
- Nicholas Van Dyke O-DE
- Charles Dominique Joseph Bouligny O-LA
- James Lloyd O-MA
- Edward Lloyd O-MD
- Powhatan Ellis O-MS
- Joseph Mcilvaine O-NJ
- James De Wolf O-RI
- John Gaillard O-SC
- William Harper O-SC
- Andrew Jackson O-TN
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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