Senate roll call 10 · 33rd Congress · Mar 23, 1853
To amend a resolution to pay the clerks of the Senate the same compensation as at the last session of Congress, by providing to discontinue payment of allowance
On Mar 23, 1853, the Senate voted 34–3. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 25–1, Others 9–2. 1 member voted against their own party.
During the 33rd Congress (1853–1854), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 34
- No
- 3
- Did not vote
- 33
- Date
- Mar 23, 1853
By party
- Democrats25 yes · 1 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Others9 yes · 2 no · 17 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William King Sebastian D-AR voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL
- Solon Borland D-AR
- John B. Weller D-CA
- Isaac Toucey D-CT
- Truman Smith O-CT
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE
- Jackson Morton O-FL
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- Augustus Caesar Dodge D-IA
- George Wallace Jones D-IA
- James Shields D-IL
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- Jesse David Bright D-IN
- John Burton Thompson O-KY
- Judah Philip Benjamin O-LA
- Pierre Soulé D-LA
- Charles Sumner O-MA
- Edward Everett O-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin D-ME
- Charles Edward Stuart D-MI
- David Rice Atchison D-MO
- Stephen Adams D-MS
- Charles Gordon Atherton D-NH
- Moses Norris Jr. D-NH
- Hamilton Fish O-NY
- William Henry Seward O-NY
- Salmon Portland Chase O-OH
- Richard Brodhead D-PA
- Charles Tillinghast James D-RI
- Josiah James Evans D-SC
- Samuel Houston D-TX
- James Murray Mason D-VA
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA
- Henry Dodge D-WI
How each senator voted: No
- William King Sebastian D-AR
- George Edmund Badger O-NC
- James Cooper O-PA
Did not vote
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. D-AL
- Robert Ward Johnson D-AR
- William McKendree Gwin D-CA
- Francis Gillette O-CT
- John Middleton Clayton O-DE
- Robert Augustus Toombs O-GA
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- John Pettit D-IN
- Archibald Dixon O-KY
- John Slidell D-LA
- Henry Wilson O-MA
- Julius Rockwell O-MA
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- Thomas George Pratt O-MD
- William Pitt Fessenden O-ME
- Lewis Cass D-MI
- Henry Sheffie Geyer O-MO
- Albert Gallatin Brown D-MS
- David Settle Reid D-NC
- Jared Warner Williams D-NH
- John Sullivan Wells D-NH
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ
- William Wright D-NJ
- Benjamin Franklin Wade O-OH
- Philip Allen D-RI
- Andrew Pickens Butler D-SC
- James Chamberlain Jones O-TN
- John Bell O-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk D-TX
- Lawrence Brainerd O-VT
- Samuel Shethar Phelps O-VT
- Solomon Foot O-VT
- Isaac Pigeon Walker D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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