Senate roll call 222 · 34th Congress · Aug 12, 1856
To amend H.R. 189 by setting salaries for officers and seamen of the late expedition to the china sea, behring strait and the la plata river.
On Aug 12, 1856, the Senate voted 10–31 (HR 189). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 4–21, Others 6–10. 4 members voted against their own party.
During the 34th Congress (1855–1856), Franklin Pierce was president.
- Yes
- 10
- No
- 31
- Did not vote
- 23
- Date
- Aug 12, 1856
By party
- Democrats4 yes · 21 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Others6 yes · 10 no · 8 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL voted yes
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ voted yes
- William Wright D-NJ voted yes
- William Bigler D-PA voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Lafayette Sabine Foster O-CT
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ
- William Wright D-NJ
- Hamilton Fish O-NY
- William Henry Seward O-NY
- Benjamin Franklin Wade O-OH
- William Bigler D-PA
- John Bell O-TN
- Jacob Collamer O-VT
How each senator voted: No
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. D-AL
- William King Sebastian D-AR
- John B. Weller D-CA
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE
- David Levy Yulee D-FL
- Alfred Iverson Sr. D-GA
- Robert Augustus Toombs D-GA
- George Wallace Jones D-IA
- James Harlan O-IA
- Lyman Trumbull D-IL
- Jesse David Bright D-IN
- John Jordan Crittenden O-KY
- Judah Philip Benjamin O-LA
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- Thomas George Pratt O-MD
- William Pitt Fessenden O-ME
- Charles Edward Stuart D-MI
- Henry Sheffie Geyer O-MO
- Albert Gallatin Brown D-MS
- Stephen Adams D-MS
- Asa Biggs D-NC
- David Settle Reid D-NC
- James Bell O-NH
- John Parker Hale O-NH
- Richard Brodhead D-PA
- Philip Allen D-RI
- Andrew Pickens Butler D-SC
- Samuel Houston O-TX
- James Murray Mason D-VA
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA
- Henry Dodge D-WI
Did not vote
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick D-AL
- Robert Ward Johnson D-AR
- William McKendree Gwin D-CA
- Isaac Toucey D-CT
- John Middleton Clayton O-DE
- Joseph Parsons Comegys O-DE
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- Graham Newell Fitch D-IN
- John Burton Thompson O-KY
- John Slidell D-LA
- Charles Sumner O-MA
- Henry Wilson O-MA
- Amos Nourse R-ME
- Hannibal Hamlin D-ME
- Lewis Cass D-MI
- James Stephen Green D-MO
- George Ellis Pugh D-OH
- Charles Tillinghast James D-RI
- Josiah James Evans D-SC
- James Chamberlain Jones O-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk D-TX
- Solomon Foot O-VT
- Charles Durkee O-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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