Senate roll call 19 · 33rd Congress · Mar 29, 1853
To postpone consideration until first monday of december next, resolution to authorize secretary of the Senate to employ a reading clerk at the same conpensatio
On Mar 29, 1853, the Senate voted 25–16. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 13–16, Others 12–0. 13 members voted against their own party.
During the 33rd Congress (1853–1854), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 25
- No
- 16
- Did not vote
- 29
- Date
- Mar 29, 1853
By party
- Democrats13 yes · 16 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Others12 yes · 0 no · 16 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL voted yes
- Solon Borland D-AR voted yes
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE voted yes
- George Wallace Jones D-IA voted yes
- James Shields D-IL voted yes
- Pierre Soulé D-LA voted yes
- William Wright D-NJ voted yes
- Andrew Pickens Butler D-SC voted yes
- Josiah James Evans D-SC voted yes
- Samuel Houston D-TX voted yes
- James Murray Mason D-VA voted yes
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA voted yes
- Isaac Pigeon Walker D-WI voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL
- Solon Borland D-AR
- Truman Smith O-CT
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE
- John Middleton Clayton O-DE
- Jackson Morton O-FL
- George Wallace Jones D-IA
- James Shields D-IL
- John Burton Thompson O-KY
- Pierre Soulé D-LA
- Charles Sumner O-MA
- Edward Everett O-MA
- Thomas George Pratt O-MD
- George Edmund Badger O-NC
- William Wright D-NJ
- Hamilton Fish O-NY
- William Henry Seward O-NY
- Salmon Portland Chase O-OH
- Andrew Pickens Butler D-SC
- Josiah James Evans D-SC
- Samuel Houston D-TX
- James Murray Mason D-VA
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA
- Samuel Shethar Phelps O-VT
- Isaac Pigeon Walker D-WI
How each senator voted: No
- William King Sebastian D-AR
- John B. Weller D-CA
- Isaac Toucey D-CT
- Augustus Caesar Dodge D-IA
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- John Pettit D-IN
- 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
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ
- Richard Brodhead D-PA
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk D-TX
- Henry Dodge D-WI
Did not vote
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. D-AL
- Robert Ward Johnson D-AR
- William McKendree Gwin D-CA
- Francis Gillette O-CT
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- Robert Augustus Toombs O-GA
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- Jesse David Bright D-IN
- Archibald Dixon O-KY
- John Slidell D-LA
- Judah Philip Benjamin O-LA
- Henry Wilson O-MA
- Julius Rockwell O-MA
- James Alfred Pearce 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
- Benjamin Franklin Wade O-OH
- James Cooper O-PA
- Charles Tillinghast James D-RI
- Philip Allen D-RI
- James Chamberlain Jones O-TN
- John Bell O-TN
- Lawrence Brainerd O-VT
- Solomon Foot O-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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