That when the house adjourns tomorrow, it adjourns to meet on friday next.

On May 31, 1852, the House voted 57–103. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 32–51, Others 25–52. 32 members voted against their own party.

During the 32nd Congress (1851–1852), Millard Fillmore was president.

Yes: 57
No: 103
Did not vote: 79
Date: May 31, 1852

By party

Democrats32 yes · 51 no · 46 didn’t vote
Others25 yes · 52 no · 33 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Robert Ward Johnson D-AR voted yes
Lincoln Clark D-IA voted yes
Willis Arnold Gorman D-IN voted yes
Graham Newell Fitch D-IN voted yes
James W. Stone D-KY voted yes
John Cabell Breckinridge D-KY voted yes
Edward Hammond D-MD voted yes
Moses Macdonald D-ME voted yes
Ephraim Knight Smart D-ME voted yes
Abraham Watkins Venable D-NC voted yes
Charles Hazen Peaslee D-NH voted yes
Harry Hibbard D-NH voted yes
Joseph Russell D-NY voted yes
William W. Snow D-NY voted yes
Edson Baldwin Olds D-OH voted yes
George Henry Busby D-OH voted yes
Thomas Birch Florence D-PA voted yes
John Robbins D-PA voted yes
Thomas Ross D-PA voted yes
Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA voted yes
Benjamin Babock Thurston D-RI voted yes
James Lawrence Orr D-SC voted yes
George Washington Jones D-TN voted yes
Isham Green Harris D-TN voted yes
Richardson Scurry D-TX voted yes
Thomas Hamlet Averett D-VA voted yes
Paulus Powell D-VA voted yes
Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA voted yes
Alexander Richmond Holladay D-VA voted yes
John Letcher D-VA voted yes
Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA voted yes
Ben C. Eastman D-WI voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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