Senate roll call 401 · 33rd Congress · Feb 1, 1855
To consider bill H.R. 117, to provide satifaction for the claims of american citizens for spoliations committed by the french prior to july 31, 1801.
On Feb 1, 1855, the Senate voted 26–29 (HR 117). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 7–28, Others 19–1. 7 members voted against their own party.
During the 33rd Congress (1853–1854), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 26
- No
- 29
- Did not vote
- 15
- Date
- Feb 1, 1855
By party
- Democrats7 yes · 28 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Others19 yes · 1 no · 8 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE voted yes
- James Shields D-IL voted yes
- John Pettit D-IN voted yes
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ voted yes
- Charles Tillinghast James D-RI voted yes
- Philip Allen D-RI voted yes
- Samuel Houston D-TX voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Francis Gillette O-CT
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE
- John Middleton Clayton O-DE
- Jackson Morton O-FL
- William Crosby Dawson O-GA
- James Shields D-IL
- John Pettit D-IN
- Archibald Dixon O-KY
- John Burton Thompson O-KY
- Charles Sumner O-MA
- Julius Rockwell O-MA
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- Thomas George Pratt O-MD
- William Pitt Fessenden O-ME
- Henry Sheffie Geyer O-MO
- George Edmund Badger O-NC
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ
- Hamilton Fish O-NY
- William Henry Seward O-NY
- Benjamin Franklin Wade O-OH
- Charles Tillinghast James D-RI
- Philip Allen D-RI
- John Bell O-TN
- Samuel Houston D-TX
- Lawrence Brainerd O-VT
- Solomon Foot O-VT
How each senator voted: No
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. D-AL
- Robert Ward Johnson D-AR
- William King Sebastian D-AR
- John B. Weller D-CA
- William McKendree Gwin D-CA
- Isaac Toucey D-CT
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- Augustus Caesar Dodge D-IA
- George Wallace Jones D-IA
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- Jesse David Bright D-IN
- John Slidell D-LA
- Charles Edward Stuart D-MI
- Lewis Cass D-MI
- David Rice Atchison D-MO
- Albert Gallatin Brown D-MS
- Stephen Adams D-MS
- David Settle Reid D-NC
- John Sullivan Wells D-NH
- William Wright D-NJ
- Richard Brodhead D-PA
- Andrew Pickens Butler D-SC
- Josiah James Evans D-SC
- James Chamberlain Jones O-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk D-TX
- James Murray Mason D-VA
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA
- Henry Dodge D-WI
Did not vote
- Solon Borland D-AR
- Truman Smith O-CT
- Robert Augustus Toombs O-GA
- Judah Philip Benjamin O-LA
- Pierre Soulé D-LA
- Edward Everett O-MA
- Henry Wilson O-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin D-ME
- Charles Gordon Atherton D-NH
- Jared Warner Williams D-NH
- Moses Norris Jr. D-NH
- Salmon Portland Chase O-OH
- James Cooper O-PA
- Samuel Shethar Phelps O-VT
- Isaac Pigeon Walker D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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