That when the house adjourns today it adjourn to meet on monday next. (p.137)

On Dec 14, 1855, the House voted 36–184. Result: failed. By party: Others 23–121, Democrats 13–63. 13 members voted against their own party.

During the 34th Congress (1855–1856), Franklin Pierce was president.

Yes: 36
No: 184
Did not vote: 18
Date: Dec 14, 1855

By party

Others23 yes · 121 no · 8 didn’t vote
Democrats13 yes · 63 no · 9 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Philemon Thomas Herbert D-CA voted yes
Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA voted yes
Thomas Fielder Bowie D-MD voted yes
Hendley Stone Bennett D-MS voted yes
John Anthony Quitman D-MS voted yes
Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC voted yes
James Lawrence Orr D-SC voted yes
William Waters Boyce D-SC voted yes
John Houston Savage D-TN voted yes
William Smith D-VA voted yes
Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA voted yes
Fayette Mcmullen D-VA voted yes
Daniel Wells Jr. D-WI voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Eli Sims Shorter D-AL
James Ferguson Dowdell D-AL
George Smith Houston D-AL
Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
Sampson Willis Harris D-AL
Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR
Albert Rust D-AR
James William Denver D-CA
Ezra Clark Jr. O-CT
John Woodruff O-CT
Sidney Dean O-CT
William Wickham Welch O-CT
Elisha Dickerson Cullen O-DE
Augustus Emmett Maxwell D-FL
James Lindsay Seward D-GA
Martin Jenkins Crawford D-GA
Robert Pleasant Trippe O-GA
Hiram Warner D-GA
John Henry Lumpkin D-GA
Howell Cobb D-GA
Augustus Hall D-IA
James Thorington O-IA
Elihu Benjamin Washburne O-IL
James Hutchinson Woodworth O-IL
Jesse Olds Norton O-IL
James Knox O-IL
Thomas Langrell Harris D-IL
James Cameron Allen D-IL
Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
Smith Miller D-IN
William Hayden English D-IN
George Grundy Dunn O-IN
William Cumback O-IN
David Pierson Holloway O-IN
Lucien Barbour O-IN
Harvey David Scott O-IN
Daniel Mace O-IN
Schuyler Colfax O-IN
Samuel Brenton O-IN
John Upfold Pettit O-IN
Henry Cornelius Burnett D-KY
Warner Lewis Underwood O-KY
Albert Gallatin Talbott D-KY
Joshua Husband Jewett D-KY
John Milton Elliott D-KY
Humphrey Marshall O-KY
Miles Taylor D-LA
John Milton Sandidge D-LA
Robert Bernard Hall O-MA
James Buffinton O-MA
William Shapleigh Damrell O-MA
Linus Bacon Comins O-MA
Anson Burlingame O-MA
Timothy Davis O-MA
Chauncey Langdon Knapp O-MA
Alexander De Witt O-MA
Calvin Clifford Chaffee O-MA
Mark Trafton O-MA
James Augustus Stewart D-MD
Henry William Hoffman O-MD
John M. Wood O-ME
John Jasiel Perry O-ME
Ebenezer Knowlton O-ME
Samuel Page Benson O-ME
Israel Washburn Jr. O-ME
Thomas James Duncan Fuller D-ME
William Alanson Howard O-MI
Henry Waldron O-MI
David Safford Walbridge O-MI
George Washington Peck D-MI
Mordecai Oliver O-MO
John Smith Phelps D-MO
William Barksdale D-MS
Thomas Ruffin D-NC
Warren Winslow D-NC
Lawrence O'Bryan Branch D-NC
Edwin Godwin Reade O-NC
Richard Clauselle Puryear O-NC
Francis Burton Craige D-NC
Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
James Pike O-NH
Mason Weare Tappan O-NH
Aaron Harrison Cragin O-NH
Isaiah Dunn Clawson O-NJ
George Robbins Robbins O-NJ
James Bishop O-NJ
George Vail D-NJ
Alexander Cumming McWhorter Pennington O-NJ
William Weightman Valk O-NY
James Samuel Thomas Stranahan O-NY
Guy Ray Pelton O-NY
John Kelly D-NY
John Wheeler D-NY
Abram Wakeman O-NY
Bayard Clarke O-NY
Ambrose Spencer Murray O-NY
Rufus H. King O-NY
Killian Miller O-NY
Russell Sage O-NY
Samuel Dickson O-NY
Edward Dodd O-NY
George Abel Simmons O-NY
Francis Elias Spinner D-NY
Thomas Raymond Horton O-NY
Jonas Abbott Hughston O-NY
Orsamus Benajah Matteson O-NY
Andrew Zimmerman Mccarty O-NY
William Augustus Gilbert O-NY
Amos Phelps Granger O-NY
Edwin Barber Morgan O-NY
Andrew Oliver D-NY
John Mason Parker O-NY
William Henry Kelsey O-NY
John Williams D-NY
Benjamin Pringle O-NY
Thomas Thorn Flagler O-NY
Solomon George Haven O-NY
Francis Smith Edwards O-NY
Timothy Crane Day O-OH
John Scott Harrison O-OH
Lewis Davis Campbell O-OH
Matthias H. Nichols O-OH
Richard Mott O-OH
Jonas Reece Emrie O-OH
Aaron Harlan O-OH
Benjamin Stanton O-OH
Cooper Kinderdine Watson O-OH
Oscar Fitzallen Moore O-OH
Valentine Baxter Horton O-OH
Samuel Galloway O-OH
John Sherman O-OH
Philemon Bliss O-OH
William Robinson Sapp O-OH
Edward Ball O-OH
Charles Jefferson Albright O-OH
Benjamin Franklin Leiter O-OH
Edward Wade O-OH
Joshua Reed Giddings O-OH
John Armor Bingham O-OH
Thomas Birch Florence D-PA
Job Roberts Tyson O-PA
Jacob Broom O-PA
John Cadwalader D-PA
John Hickman D-PA
Samuel Carey Bradshaw O-PA
Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
Anthony Ellmaker Roberts O-PA
Galusha Aaron Grow D-PA
John Jamison Pearce O-PA
Lemuel Todd O-PA
David Fullerton Robison O-PA
John Covode O-PA
Jonathan Knight O-PA
David Ritchie O-PA
Samuel Anderson Purviance O-PA
John Allison O-PA
David Barclay D-PA
John Dick O-PA
Nathaniel Briggs Durfee O-RI
Benjamin Babock Thurston O-RI
John Mcqueen D-SC
William Aiken D-SC
Preston Smith Brooks D-SC
Albert Galiton Watkins D-TN
William Henry Sneed O-TN
Samuel Axley Smith D-TN
George Washington Jones D-TN
John Vines Wright D-TN
Emerson Etheridge O-TN
Thomas Rivers O-TN
Peter Hansbrough Bell D-TX
John Singleton Millson D-VA
John Samuels Caskie D-VA
William Osborne Goode D-VA
Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
Charles James Faulkner D-VA
John Letcher D-VA
Zedekiah Kidwell D-VA
John Snyder Carlile O-VA
James Meacham O-VT
Justin Smith Morrill O-VT
Alvah Sabin O-VT
Cadwallader Colden Washburn O-WI
Charles Billinghurst O-WI

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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