House roll call 287 · 33rd Congress · May 22, 1854
To table the appeal from the ruling of the chair the MR. Goodrich's motion to be excused from voting on MR. Clingman's appeal from the decision of the chair was
On May 22, 1854, the House voted 88–105. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 35–93, Others 52–12, Independents 1–0. 35 members voted against their own party.
During the 33rd Congress (1853–1854), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 88
- No
- 105
- Did not vote
- 49
- Date
- May 22, 1854
By party
- Democrats35 yes · 93 no · 31 didn’t vote
- Others52 yes · 12 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Nathan Belcher D-CT voted yes
- Origen Storrs Seymour D-CT voted yes
- John Wentworth D-IL voted yes
- Daniel Mace D-IN voted yes
- Andrew Jackson Harlan D-IN voted yes
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks D-MA voted yes
- Samuel Mayall D-ME voted yes
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller D-ME voted yes
- David Addison Noble D-MI voted yes
- Thomas Hart Benton D-MO voted yes
- George Washington Kittredge D-NH voted yes
- Nathan Taylor Stratton D-NJ voted yes
- John Wheeler D-NY voted yes
- Francis Brockholst Cutting D-NY voted yes
- Jared Valentine Peck D-NY voted yes
- William Murray D-NY voted yes
- Gilbert Dean D-NY voted yes
- Charles Hughes D-NY voted yes
- Bishop Perkins D-NY voted yes
- Daniel Terryll Jones D-NY voted yes
- Andrew Oliver D-NY voted yes
- George Hastings D-NY voted yes
- Reuben Eaton Fenton D-NY voted yes
- Matthias H. Nichols D-OH voted yes
- Alfred Peck Edgerton D-OH voted yes
- Andrew Ellison D-OH voted yes
- Thomas Ritchey D-OH voted yes
- William Dell Lindsley D-OH voted yes
- Andrew Stuart D-OH voted yes
- Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA voted yes
- James Gamble D-PA voted yes
- Augustus Drum D-PA voted yes
- Michael Carver Trout D-PA voted yes
- Thomas Davis D-RI voted yes
- Benjamin Babock Thurston D-RI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Nathan Belcher D-CT
- Origen Storrs Seymour D-CT
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne O-IL
- John Wentworth D-IL
- Jesse Olds Norton O-IL
- James Knox O-IL
- Richard Yates O-IL
- Samuel Wilson Parker O-IN
- Daniel Mace D-IN
- Andrew Jackson Harlan D-IN
- Theodore Gaillard Hunt O-LA
- Thomas Dawes Eliot O-MA
- Samuel Leonard Crocker O-MA
- John Wiley Edmands O-MA
- Samuel Hurd Walley O-MA
- Charles Wentworth Upham O-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks D-MA
- Tappan Wentworth O-MA
- Alexander De Witt O-MA
- Edward Dickinson O-MA
- John Zacheus Goodrich O-MA
- Samuel Mayall D-ME
- Ephraim Wilder Farley O-ME
- Samuel Page Benson O-ME
- Israel Washburn Jr. O-ME
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller D-ME
- David Addison Noble D-MI
- Thomas Hart Benton D-MO
- Richard Clauselle Puryear O-NC
- George Washington Kittredge D-NH
- Nathan Taylor Stratton D-NJ
- Alexander Cumming McWhorter Pennington O-NJ
- John Wheeler D-NY
- Francis Brockholst Cutting D-NY
- Jared Valentine Peck D-NY
- William Murray D-NY
- Gilbert Dean D-NY
- Russell Sage O-NY
- Charles Hughes D-NY
- George Abel Simmons O-NY
- Bishop Perkins D-NY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson O-NY
- Henry Bennett O-NY
- Caleb Lyon I-NY
- Daniel Terryll Jones D-NY
- Edwin Barber Morgan O-NY
- Andrew Oliver D-NY
- George Hastings D-NY
- Davis Carpenter O-NY
- Benjamin Pringle O-NY
- Thomas Thorn Flagler O-NY
- Solomon George Haven O-NY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton D-NY
- John Scott Harrison O-OH
- Lewis Davis Campbell O-OH
- Matthias H. Nichols D-OH
- Alfred Peck Edgerton D-OH
- Andrew Ellison D-OH
- Aaron Harlan O-OH
- John Lampkin Taylor O-OH
- Thomas Ritchey D-OH
- William Dell Lindsley D-OH
- William Robinson Sapp O-OH
- Edward Ball O-OH
- Edward Wade O-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
- Andrew Stuart D-OH
- Joseph Ripley Chandler O-PA
- William Everhart O-PA
- Isaac Ellmaker Hiester O-PA
- Ner Middleswarth O-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA
- James Gamble D-PA
- Samuel Lyon Russell O-PA
- John Mcculloch O-PA
- Augustus Drum D-PA
- David Ritchie O-PA
- Thomas Marshall Howe O-PA
- Michael Carver Trout D-PA
- John Dick O-PA
- Thomas Davis D-RI
- Benjamin Babock Thurston D-RI
- Nathaniel Green Taylor O-TN
- William Cullom O-TN
- Emerson Etheridge O-TN
- James Meacham O-VT
- Andrew Tracy O-VT
- Alvah Sabin O-VT
How each representative voted: No
- James Abercrombie O-AL
- Sampson Willis Harris D-AL
- William Russell Smith D-AL
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
- James Ferguson Dowdell D-AL
- Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR
- Edward Allen Warren D-AR
- James Alexander Mcdougall D-CA
- James Timothy Pratt D-CT
- Colin Macrae Ingersoll D-CT
- George Read Riddle D-DE
- Augustus Emmett Maxwell D-FL
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- David Jackson Bailey D-GA
- Elijah Webb Chastain D-GA
- Junius Hillyer D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens O-GA
- Bernhart Henn D-IA
- William Alexander Richardson D-IL
- James Cameron Allen D-IL
- Willis Allen D-IL
- Smith Miller D-IN
- William Hayden English D-IN
- Cyrus Livingston Dunham D-IN
- Thomas Andrews Hendricks D-IN
- John Givan Davis D-IN
- Benjamin Edwards Grey O-KY
- Clement Sidney Hill O-KY
- John Milton Elliott D-KY
- William Preston O-KY
- John Cabell Breckinridge D-KY
- Leander Martin Cox O-KY
- Richard Henry Stanton D-KY
- William Dunbar D-LA
- John Perkins Jr. D-LA
- Roland Jones D-LA
- Jacob Shower D-MD
- Joshua Van Sant D-MD
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Moses Macdonald D-ME
- David Stuart D-MI
- Samuel Clark D-MI
- Hestor Lockhart Stevens D-MI
- Alfred William Lamb D-MO
- Mordecai Oliver O-MO
- John Gaines Miller O-MO
- John Smith Phelps D-MO
- Samuel Caruthers O-MO
- Daniel Boone Wright D-MS
- William Taylor Sullivan Barry D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Wiley Pope Harris D-MS
- William Barksdale D-MS
- Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC
- William Shepperd Ashe D-NC
- John Kerr Jr. O-NC
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- Harry Hibbard D-NH
- Samuel Lilly D-NJ
- George Vail D-NJ
- Thomas William Cumming D-NY
- Hiram Walbridge D-NY
- William Marcy Tweed D-NY
- William Adams Walker D-NY
- Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook D-NY
- Peter Rowe D-NY
- John James Taylor D-NY
- David Tiernan Disney D-OH
- Frederick William Green D-OH
- Edson Baldwin Olds D-OH
- Wilson Shannon D-OH
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA
- William Henry Witte D-PA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
- Christian Markle Straub D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- Asa Packer D-PA
- William Henry Kurtz D-PA
- John Littleton Dawson D-PA
- Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- William Waters Boyce D-SC
- William Montgomery Churchwell D-TN
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN
- Charles Ready O-TN
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer O-TN
- Frederick Perry Stanton D-TN
- George Washington Smyth D-TX
- Peter Hansbrough Bell D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA
- John Singleton Millson D-VA
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- Paulus Powell D-VA
- William Smith D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-VA
- John Letcher D-VA
- Zedekiah Kidwell D-VA
- John Fryall Snodgrass D-VA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA
- Daniel Wells Jr. D-WI
Did not vote
- Philip Phillips D-AL
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Milton Slocum Latham D-CA
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA
- William Barton Wade Dent D-GA
- David Addison Reese O-GA
- John Parsons Cook O-IA
- William Harrison Bissell O-IL
- James Henry Lane D-IN
- Norman Eddy D-IN
- Ebenezer Mattoon Chamberlain D-IN
- Linn Boyd D-KY
- Francis Marion Bristow O-KY
- Presley Underwood Ewing O-KY
- James Stone Chrisman D-KY
- Zeno Scudder O-MA
- William Appleton O-MA
- John Rankin Franklin O-MD
- Henry May D-MD
- Augustus Rhodes Sollers O-MD
- James Johnson Lindley O-MO
- Sion Hart Rogers O-NC
- George Washington Morrison D-NH
- Charles Skelton D-NJ
- James Maurice D-NY
- Michael Walsh D-NY
- Isaac Teller O-NY
- Rufus Wheeler Peckham D-NY
- George William Chase O-NY
- Gerrit Smith O-NY
- Henry Charles Goodwin O-NY
- Azariah Boody O-NY
- Moses Bledso Corwin O-OH
- Harvey Hull Johnson D-OH
- George Bliss D-OH
- John Robbins D-PA
- John Mcnair D-PA
- Henry Augustus Muhlenberg D-PA
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis D-PA
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- William Aiken D-SC
- Preston Smith Brooks D-SC
- Brookins Campbell D-TN
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- Robert Malone Bugg O-TN
- Charles Swearinger Lewis D-VA
- Fayette Mcmullen D-VA
- Ben C. Eastman D-WI
- John B. Macy D-WI
Other votes
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