House roll call 952 · 27th Congress · Mar 2, 1843
To amend S. 89, by prohibiting the privilege of franking or receiving free of postage, any letters, packets or papers by any person other than the President, ex
On Mar 2, 1843, the House voted 72–86 (S 89). Result: failed. By party: Others 42–49, Democrats 30–37. 30 members voted against their own party.
During the 27th Congress (1841–1842), John Tyler was president.
- Yes
- 72
- No
- 86
- Did not vote
- 98
- Date
- Mar 2, 1843
By party
- Democrats30 yes · 37 no · 38 didn’t vote
- Others42 yes · 49 no · 59 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Benjamin Glover Shields D-AL voted yes
- Dixon Hall Lewis D-AL voted yes
- John Bennett Dawson D-LA voted yes
- Charles S. Sewall D-MD voted yes
- Joshua Adams Lowell D-ME voted yes
- James Iver Mckay D-NC voted yes
- Romulus Mitchell Saunders D-NC voted yes
- Charles Gordon Atherton D-NH voted yes
- Edmund Burke D-NH voted yes
- James I. Roosevelt D-NY voted yes
- John Mckeon D-NY voted yes
- Richard David Davis D-NY voted yes
- Robert Mcclellan D-NY voted yes
- John Gelston Floyd D-NY voted yes
- Samuel Gordon D-NY voted yes
- John B. Weller D-OH voted yes
- William Doan D-OH voted yes
- William Medill D-OH voted yes
- Ezra Dean D-OH voted yes
- Charles Brown D-PA voted yes
- Charles Jared Ingersoll D-PA voted yes
- John Westbrook D-PA voted yes
- Benjamin Alden Bidlack D-PA voted yes
- Albert Gallatin Marchand D-PA voted yes
- Samuel Wilds Trotti D-SC voted yes
- Francis Wilkinson Pickens D-SC voted yes
- James Rogers D-SC voted yes
- Patrick Calhoun Caldwell D-SC voted yes
- Abraham Mcclellan D-TN voted yes
- George Washington Hopkins D-VA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Benjamin Glover Shields D-AL
- Dixon Hall Lewis D-AL
- Joseph Trumbull O-CT
- William Whiting Boardman O-CT
- Thomas Wheeler Williams O-CT
- Thomas Burr Osborne O-CT
- John Hall Brockway O-CT
- George Brydges Rodney O-DE
- James Harrison Cravens O-IN
- Joseph Rogers Underwood O-KY
- Edward Douglass White O-LA
- John Bennett Dawson D-LA
- Leverett Saltonstall O-MA
- Osmyn Baker O-MA
- George Nixon Briggs O-MA
- William Barron Calhoun O-MA
- Nathaniel Briggs Borden O-MA
- Charles S. Sewall D-MD
- William Pitt Fessenden O-ME
- David Bronson O-ME
- Joshua Adams Lowell D-ME
- Elisha Hunt Allen O-ME
- James Iver Mckay D-NC
- Romulus Mitchell Saunders D-NC
- Abraham Rencher O-NC
- Anderson Mitchell O-NC
- Charles Gordon Atherton D-NH
- Edmund Burke D-NH
- John Patterson Bryan Maxwell O-NJ
- Joseph Fitz Randolph O-NJ
- Thomas Jones Yorke O-NJ
- William Halstead O-NJ
- James I. Roosevelt D-NY
- John Mckeon D-NY
- Richard David Davis D-NY
- Robert Mcclellan D-NY
- Henry Bell Van Rensselaer O-NY
- John Gelston Floyd D-NY
- Thomas Cotton Chittenden O-NY
- Samuel Gordon D-NY
- Christopher Morgan O-NY
- John Maynard O-NY
- Francis Granger O-NY
- Timothy Childs O-NY
- Millard Fillmore O-NY
- Alfred Babcock O-NY
- John B. Weller D-OH
- William Doan D-OH
- Joseph Ridgway O-OH
- William Medill D-OH
- Ezra Dean D-OH
- Samuel Stokely O-OH
- Charles Brown D-PA
- Charles Jared Ingersoll D-PA
- Robert Ramsey O-PA
- John Westbrook D-PA
- Benjamin Alden Bidlack D-PA
- James McPherson Russell O-PA
- Albert Gallatin Marchand D-PA
- Thomas McKean Thompson Mckennan O-PA
- Thomas Henry O-PA
- Samuel Wilds Trotti D-SC
- Francis Wilkinson Pickens D-SC
- James Rogers D-SC
- Patrick Calhoun Caldwell D-SC
- Abraham Mcclellan D-TN
- Joseph Lanier Williams O-TN
- Christopher Harris Williams O-TN
- Thomas Walker Gilmer O-VA
- George Washington Hopkins D-VA
- Horace Everett O-VT
- Augustus Young O-VT
How each representative voted: No
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- James A. Meriwether O-GA
- Mark Anthony Cooper D-GA
- Thomas Butler King O-GA
- John Reynolds D-IL
- Zadok Casey O-IL
- John Todd Stuart O-IL
- Joseph Livingston White O-IN
- David Wallace O-IN
- Linn Boyd D-KY
- Philip Triplett O-KY
- James Cresap Sprigg O-KY
- Garrett Davis O-KY
- William Orlando Butler D-KY
- John Moore O-LA
- Robert Charles Winthrop O-MA
- William Parmenter D-MA
- Charles Hudson O-MA
- John Quincy Adams O-MA
- Isaac Dashiell Jones O-MD
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- Alexander Randall O-MD
- John Pendleton Kennedy O-MD
- Nathaniel Swett Littlefield D-ME
- Jacob Merritt Howard O-MI
- Kenneth Rayner O-NC
- John Reeves Jones Daniel D-NC
- Edward Stanly O-NC
- Archibald Hunter Arrington D-NC
- Edmund Deberry O-NC
- John Randall Reding D-NH
- Tristram Shaw D-NH
- Charles Creighton Stratton O-NJ
- John Bancker Aycrigg O-NJ
- Charles Albert Floyd D-NY
- Charles Goadsby Ferris D-NY
- Aaron Ward D-NY
- James Graham Clinton D-NY
- John Van Buren D-NY
- Jacob Houck Jr. D-NY
- Daniel Dewey Barnard O-NY
- Archibald Ladley Linn O-NY
- Bernard Blair O-NY
- John Sanford D-NY
- Samuel Smith Bowne D-NY
- John Chamberlain Clark O-NY
- Lewis Riggs D-NY
- Victory Birdseye O-NY
- John Young O-NY
- William Russell O-OH
- Benjamin Sprague Cowen O-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
- John Hastings D-OH
- George Washington Toland O-PA
- Joseph Reed Ingersoll O-PA
- Joseph Fornance D-PA
- Peter Newhard D-PA
- James Irvin O-PA
- John Snyder D-PA
- Almon Heath Read D-PA
- Arnold Plumer D-PA
- Joseph Leonard Tillinghast O-RI
- Robert Bennie Cranston O-RI
- Robert Barnwell Rhett D-SC
- John Campbell D-SC
- William Butler O-SC
- Thomas Dickens Arnold O-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Campbell O-TN
- Hopkins Lacy Turney D-TN
- Robert Looney Caruthers O-TN
- Meredith Poindexter Gentry O-TN
- Harvey Magee Watterson D-TN
- Aaron Venable Brown D-TN
- Cave Johnson D-TN
- Milton Brown O-TN
- John Winston Jones D-VA
- Henry Alexander Wise O-VA
- John Minor Botts O-VA
- William Smith D-VA
- Cuthbert Powell O-VA
- Richard Walker Barton O-VA
- William Alexander Harris D-VA
- Samuel Lewis Hays D-VA
- Lewis Steenrod D-VA
- Hiland Hall O-VT
- John Mattocks O-VT
Did not vote
- Reuben Chapman D-AL
- William Winter Payne D-AL
- Edward Cross D-AR
- Truman Smith O-CT
- Edward Junius Black D-GA
- Eugenius Aristides Nisbet O-GA
- George Walker Crawford O-GA
- Julius Caesar Alford O-GA
- Lott Warren O-GA
- Richard Wylly Habersham O-GA
- Roger Lawson Gamble O-GA
- Thomas Flournoy Foster O-GA
- Walter Terry Colquitt D-GA
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- George H. Proffit O-IN
- Richard Wigginton Thompson O-IN
- Andrew Kennedy D-IN
- Henry Smith Lane O-IN
- Bryan Young Owsley O-KY
- John Burton Thompson O-KY
- Willis Green O-KY
- John Pope O-KY
- John White O-KY
- Thomas Francis Marshall O-KY
- Landaff Watson Andrews O-KY
- Nathan Appleton O-MA
- Caleb Cushing O-MA
- William Soden Hastings O-MA
- Barker Burnell O-MA
- James Wray Williams D-MD
- William Cost Johnson O-MD
- John Thomson Mason D-MD
- Augustus Rhodes Sollers O-MD
- Nathan Clifford D-ME
- Benjamin Randall O-ME
- Alfred Marshall D-ME
- John Cummins Edwards D-MO
- John Miller D-MO
- Jacob Thompson D-MS
- William McKendree Gwin D-MS
- William Henry Washington O-NC
- Augustine Henry Shepperd O-NC
- Greene Washington Caldwell D-NC
- James Graham O-NC
- Lewis Williams O-NC
- Ira Allen Eastman D-NH
- Joseph Egbert D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Hiram Paine Hunt O-NY
- Thomas Ash Tomlinson O-NY
- Andrew Wheeler Doig D-NY
- David P. Brewster D-NY
- Samuel Partridge D-NY
- A. Lawrence Foster O-NY
- John Greig O-NY
- William Morrison Oliver D-NY
- Seth Merrill Gates O-NY
- Staley Nichols Clarke O-NY
- Nathanael Greene Pendleton O-OH
- Patrick Gaines Goode O-OH
- Jeremiah Morrow O-OH
- Calvary Morris O-OH
- Samson Mason O-OH
- Joshua Mathiot O-OH
- James Mathews D-OH
- George Sweeny D-OH
- Sherlock James Andrews O-OH
- John Sergeant O-PA
- Francis James O-PA
- Jeremiah Brown O-PA
- John Edwards O-PA
- George May Keim D-PA
- William Simonton O-PA
- James Gerry D-PA
- James Cooper O-PA
- Amos Gustine D-PA
- Davis Dimock Jr. D-PA
- Henry Black O-PA
- Henry White Beeson D-PA
- Joseph Lawrence O-PA
- William Wallace Irwin O-PA
- William Jack D-PA
- Isaac Edward Holmes D-SC
- Sampson Hale Butler D-SC
- Thomas De Lage Sumter D-SC
- William Bowen Campbell O-TN
- Francis Mallory O-VA
- George Booth Cary D-VA
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- Edmund Wilcox Hubard D-VA
- Walter Coles D-VA
- William Leftwich Goggin O-VA
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter I-VA
- John Taliaferro O-VA
- Linn Banks D-VA
- Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart O-VA
- George William Summers O-VA
- William Slade O-VT
Other votes
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