House roll call 523 · 33rd Congress · Feb 7, 1855
To amend S. 96 (i/28/55) an act to provide for the payment of such creditors of the late republic of texas as are comprehended in the act of Congress of sept 9,
On Feb 7, 1855, the House voted 120–82 (S 96). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 80–53, Others 40–29. 53 members voted against their own party.
During the 33rd Congress (1853–1854), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 120
- No
- 82
- Did not vote
- 40
- Date
- Feb 7, 1855
By party
- Democrats80 yes · 53 no · 26 didn’t vote
- Others40 yes · 29 no · 13 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Russell Smith D-AL voted no
- Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR voted no
- Edward Allen Warren D-AR voted no
- James Alexander Mcdougall D-CA voted no
- Milton Slocum Latham D-CA voted no
- George Read Riddle D-DE voted no
- Augustus Emmett Maxwell D-FL voted no
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA voted no
- John Wentworth D-IL voted no
- Smith Miller D-IN voted no
- William Hayden English D-IN voted no
- Cyrus Livingston Dunham D-IN voted no
- Thomas Andrews Hendricks D-IN voted no
- Daniel Mace D-IN voted no
- Andrew Jackson Harlan D-IN voted no
- John Cabell Breckinridge D-KY voted no
- Richard Henry Stanton D-KY voted no
- William Dunbar D-LA voted no
- Samuel Mayall D-ME voted no
- David Stuart D-MI voted no
- Samuel Clark D-MI voted no
- Hestor Lockhart Stevens D-MI voted no
- Alfred William Lamb D-MO voted no
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC voted no
- Thomas William Cumming D-NY voted no
- William Adams Walker D-NY voted no
- Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook D-NY voted no
- Rufus Wheeler Peckham D-NY voted no
- Peter Rowe D-NY voted no
- John James Taylor D-NY voted no
- Reuben Eaton Fenton D-NY voted no
- Frederick William Green D-OH voted no
- Edson Baldwin Olds D-OH voted no
- William Dell Lindsley D-OH voted no
- Harvey Hull Johnson D-OH voted no
- Wilson Shannon D-OH voted no
- George Bliss D-OH voted no
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA voted no
- John Robbins D-PA voted no
- William Henry Witte D-PA voted no
- John Mcnair D-PA voted no
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA voted no
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA voted no
- James Gamble D-PA voted no
- William Henry Kurtz D-PA voted no
- John Littleton Dawson D-PA voted no
- Benjamin Babock Thurston D-RI voted no
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC voted no
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN voted no
- Frederick Perry Stanton D-TN voted no
- George Washington Smyth D-TX voted no
- Peter Hansbrough Bell D-TX voted no
- William Smith D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Philip Phillips D-AL
- James Abercrombie O-AL
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
- James Timothy Pratt D-CT
- Colin Macrae Ingersoll D-CT
- Nathan Belcher D-CT
- Origen Storrs Seymour D-CT
- Elijah Webb Chastain D-GA
- Junius Hillyer D-GA
- Bernhart Henn D-IA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne O-IL
- Jesse Olds Norton O-IL
- James Knox O-IL
- Richard Yates O-IL
- James Cameron Allen D-IL
- Willis Allen D-IL
- James Henry Lane D-IN
- Samuel Wilson Parker O-IN
- John Givan Davis D-IN
- Ebenezer Mattoon Chamberlain D-IN
- James Stone Chrisman D-KY
- John Perkins Jr. D-LA
- Roland Jones D-LA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks D-MA
- Tappan Wentworth O-MA
- Jacob Shower D-MD
- Joshua Van Sant D-MD
- Henry May D-MD
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Moses Macdonald D-ME
- Ephraim Wilder Farley O-ME
- Samuel Page Benson O-ME
- Israel Washburn Jr. O-ME
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller D-ME
- Thomas Hart Benton D-MO
- Mordecai Oliver 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
- John Kerr Jr. O-NC
- Richard Clauselle Puryear O-NC
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC
- George Washington Kittredge D-NH
- George Washington Morrison D-NH
- Harry Hibbard D-NH
- Nathan Taylor Stratton D-NJ
- Charles Skelton D-NJ
- Samuel Lilly D-NJ
- Alexander Cumming McWhorter Pennington O-NJ
- James Maurice D-NY
- Michael Walsh D-NY
- William Marcy Tweed D-NY
- John Wheeler D-NY
- Jared Valentine Peck D-NY
- William Murray D-NY
- Isaac Teller O-NY
- Russell Sage O-NY
- Charles Hughes D-NY
- George Abel Simmons O-NY
- Bishop Perkins D-NY
- Henry Bennett O-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
- David Tiernan Disney D-OH
- Matthias H. Nichols D-OH
- Alfred Peck Edgerton D-OH
- Andrew Ellison D-OH
- Aaron Harlan O-OH
- Thomas Ritchey D-OH
- Edward Ball O-OH
- Edward Wade O-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
- Andrew Stuart D-OH
- Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
- Isaac Ellmaker Hiester O-PA
- Ner Middleswarth O-PA
- Christian Markle Straub D-PA
- Asa Packer D-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA
- Samuel Lyon Russell O-PA
- John Mcculloch O-PA
- David Ritchie O-PA
- Thomas Marshall Howe O-PA
- Thomas Davis D-RI
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- William Aiken D-SC
- Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC
- Preston Smith Brooks D-SC
- William Waters Boyce D-SC
- Nathaniel Green Taylor O-TN
- William Cullom O-TN
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer O-TN
- John Singleton Millson D-VA
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- Paulus Powell D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-VA
- John Letcher D-VA
- Charles Swearinger Lewis D-VA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA
- Fayette Mcmullen D-VA
- James Meacham O-VT
- Andrew Tracy O-VT
- Alvah Sabin O-VT
- Ben C. Eastman D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- William Russell Smith D-AL
- Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR
- Edward Allen Warren D-AR
- James Alexander Mcdougall D-CA
- Milton Slocum Latham D-CA
- George Read Riddle D-DE
- Augustus Emmett Maxwell D-FL
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA
- David Addison Reese O-GA
- John Parsons Cook O-IA
- John Wentworth D-IL
- Smith Miller D-IN
- William Hayden English D-IN
- Cyrus Livingston Dunham D-IN
- Thomas Andrews Hendricks D-IN
- Daniel Mace D-IN
- Andrew Jackson Harlan D-IN
- Benjamin Edwards Grey O-KY
- Francis Marion Bristow O-KY
- Clement Sidney Hill O-KY
- William Preston O-KY
- John Cabell Breckinridge D-KY
- Leander Martin Cox O-KY
- Richard Henry Stanton D-KY
- William Dunbar D-LA
- 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
- William Appleton O-MA
- Charles Wentworth Upham O-MA
- John Zacheus Goodrich O-MA
- John Rankin Franklin O-MD
- Augustus Rhodes Sollers O-MD
- Samuel Mayall D-ME
- David Stuart D-MI
- Samuel Clark D-MI
- Hestor Lockhart Stevens D-MI
- Alfred William Lamb D-MO
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- Thomas William Cumming D-NY
- William Adams Walker D-NY
- Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook D-NY
- Rufus Wheeler Peckham D-NY
- Peter Rowe D-NY
- George William Chase O-NY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson O-NY
- John James Taylor D-NY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton D-NY
- Lewis Davis Campbell O-OH
- Moses Bledso Corwin O-OH
- Frederick William Green D-OH
- John Lampkin Taylor O-OH
- Edson Baldwin Olds D-OH
- William Dell Lindsley D-OH
- Harvey Hull Johnson D-OH
- William Robinson Sapp O-OH
- Wilson Shannon D-OH
- George Bliss D-OH
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA
- Joseph Ripley Chandler O-PA
- John Robbins D-PA
- William Henry Witte D-PA
- John Mcnair D-PA
- William Everhart O-PA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- James Gamble D-PA
- William Henry Kurtz D-PA
- John Littleton Dawson D-PA
- John Dick O-PA
- Benjamin Babock Thurston D-RI
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN
- Charles Ready O-TN
- Robert Malone Bugg O-TN
- Emerson Etheridge O-TN
- Frederick Perry Stanton D-TN
- George Washington Smyth D-TX
- Peter Hansbrough Bell D-TX
- William Smith D-VA
Did not vote
- Sampson Willis Harris D-AL
- James Ferguson Dowdell D-AL
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- David Jackson Bailey D-GA
- William Barton Wade Dent D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens O-GA
- William Alexander Richardson D-IL
- William Harrison Bissell O-IL
- Norman Eddy D-IN
- Linn Boyd D-KY
- Presley Underwood Ewing O-KY
- John Milton Elliott D-KY
- Zeno Scudder O-MA
- Alexander De Witt O-MA
- Edward Dickinson O-MA
- David Addison Noble D-MI
- James Johnson Lindley O-MO
- John Gaines Miller O-MO
- William Shepperd Ashe D-NC
- Sion Hart Rogers O-NC
- George Vail D-NJ
- Hiram Walbridge D-NY
- Francis Brockholst Cutting D-NY
- Gilbert Dean D-NY
- Gerrit Smith O-NY
- Henry Charles Goodwin O-NY
- Caleb Lyon I-NY
- Azariah Boody O-NY
- John Scott Harrison O-OH
- Henry Augustus Muhlenberg D-PA
- Augustus Drum D-PA
- Michael Carver Trout D-PA
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis D-PA
- Brookins Campbell D-TN
- William Montgomery Churchwell D-TN
- Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA
- Zedekiah Kidwell D-VA
- John Fryall Snodgrass D-VA
- Daniel Wells Jr. D-WI
- John B. Macy D-WI
Other votes
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