House roll call 419 · 35th Congress · Jan 31, 1859
To suspend rules in order to offer a bill to propose authorization of loan. (p. 701-1)
On Jan 31, 1859, the House voted 73–127. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 70–32, Republicans 0–83, Others 3–12. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 32 members voted against their own party.
During the 35th Congress (1857–1858), James Buchanan was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 73
- No
- 127
- Did not vote
- 45
- Date
- Jan 31, 1859
By party
- Democrats70 yes · 32 no · 33 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 83 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 12 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL voted no
- Samuel Arnold D-CT voted no
- William Darius Bishop D-CT voted no
- Martin Jenkins Crawford D-GA voted no
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell D-GA voted no
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA voted no
- Isaac Newton Morris D-IL voted no
- Charles Drury Hodges D-IL voted no
- James Madison Gregg D-IN voted no
- William Wallace Phelps D-MN voted no
- James Craig D-MO voted no
- John Jones Mcrae D-MS voted no
- Garnett Bowditch Adrain D-NJ voted no
- Jacob Reynier Wortendyke D-NJ voted no
- Daniel Edgar Sickles D-NY voted no
- John Bussing Haskin D-NY voted no
- Erastus Corning D-NY voted no
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH voted no
- Clement Laird Vallandigham D-OH voted no
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-OH voted no
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA voted no
- Henry Myer Phillips D-PA voted no
- Owen Jones D-PA voted no
- John Hickman D-PA voted no
- Henry Chapman D-PA voted no
- William Lewis Dewart D-PA voted no
- Paul Leidy D-PA voted no
- Allison White D-PA voted no
- John Alexander Ahl D-PA voted no
- William Montgomery D-PA voted no
- James Lisle Gillis D-PA voted no
- John Vines Wright D-TN voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Adams Stallworth D-AL
- Eli Sims Shorter D-AL
- James Ferguson Dowdell D-AL
- Sydenham Moore D-AL
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry D-AL
- Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR
- Charles Lewis Scott D-CA
- William Gustavus Whiteley D-DE
- George Sydney Hawkins D-FL
- Augustus Romaldus Wright D-GA
- James Jackson D-GA
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- Robert Smith D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- William Hayden English D-IN
- James Hughes D-IN
- James Bradford Foley D-IN
- John Givan Davis D-IN
- Henry Cornelius Burnett D-KY
- Samuel Oldham Peyton D-KY
- Joshua Husband Jewett D-KY
- John Milton Elliott D-KY
- James Brown Clay D-KY
- John Calvin Mason D-KY
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- George Eustis Jr. O-LA
- Miles Taylor D-LA
- Thomas Green Davidson D-LA
- Thomas Fielder Bowie D-MD
- Thomas Lilbourne Anderson O-MO
- John Bullock Clark D-MO
- John Smith Phelps D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Reuben Davis D-MS
- William Barksdale D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC
- Warren Winslow D-NC
- Lawrence O'Bryan Branch D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- John Alexander Searing D-NY
- George Taylor D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Barr O-NY
- William Brown Maclay D-NY
- John Cochrane D-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- William Fiero Russell D-NY
- Joseph Miller D-OH
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- William Porcher Miles D-SC
- Milledge Luke Bonham D-SC
- William Waters Boyce D-SC
- Albert Galiton Watkins D-TN
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN
- John Houston Savage D-TN
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- William Tecumsah Avery D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Guy Morrison Bryan D-TX
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett D-VA
- John Singleton Millson D-VA
- John Samuels Caskie D-VA
- William Osborne Goode D-VA
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- Paulus Powell D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-VA
- John Letcher D-VA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA
- George Washington Hopkins D-VA
How each representative voted: No
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
- Ezra Clark Jr. R-CT
- Samuel Arnold D-CT
- Sidney Dean R-CT
- William Darius Bishop D-CT
- Martin Jenkins Crawford D-GA
- Robert Pleasant Trippe O-GA
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell D-GA
- Joshua Hill O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne R-IL
- Owen Lovejoy R-IL
- William Kellogg R-IL
- Isaac Newton Morris D-IL
- Charles Drury Hodges D-IL
- David Kilgore R-IN
- James Madison Gregg D-IN
- James Wilson R-IN
- Schuyler Colfax R-IN
- Charles Case R-IN
- John Upfold Pettit R-IN
- Warner Lewis Underwood O-KY
- Humphrey Marshall O-KY
- Robert Bernard Hall R-MA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Linus Bacon Comins R-MA
- Anson Burlingame R-MA
- Timothy Davis R-MA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch R-MA
- Chauncey Langdon Knapp R-MA
- Eli Thayer R-MA
- Calvin Clifford Chaffee R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Barroll Ricaud O-MD
- James Morrison Harris O-MD
- Henry Winter Davis O-MD
- John M. Wood R-ME
- Charles Jervis Gilman R-ME
- Nehemiah Abbott R-ME
- Freeman Harlow Morse R-ME
- Israel Washburn Jr. R-ME
- Stephen Clark Foster R-ME
- William Alanson Howard R-MI
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- David Safford Walbridge R-MI
- De Witt Clinton Leach R-MI
- William Wallace Phelps D-MN
- James Craig D-MO
- Samuel Hughes Woodson O-MO
- John Jones Mcrae D-MS
- John Adams Gilmer O-NC
- James Pike R-NH
- Mason Weare Tappan R-NH
- Isaiah Dunn Clawson R-NJ
- George Robbins Robbins R-NJ
- Garnett Bowditch Adrain D-NJ
- Jacob Reynier Wortendyke D-NJ
- Daniel Edgar Sickles D-NY
- John Bussing Haskin D-NY
- Ambrose Spencer Murray R-NY
- John Thompson R-NY
- Abram Baldwin Olin R-NY
- Erastus Corning D-NY
- Edward Dodd R-NY
- George William Palmer R-NY
- Francis Elias Spinner R-NY
- Clark Betton Cochrane R-NY
- Oliver Andrew Morse R-NY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson R-NY
- Henry Bennett R-NY
- Henry Charles Goodwin R-NY
- Charles Brooks Hoard R-NY
- Amos Phelps Granger R-NY
- Edwin Barber Morgan R-NY
- Emory Bemsley Pottle R-NY
- John Mason Parker R-NY
- William Henry Kelsey R-NY
- Samuel George Andrews R-NY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- Clement Laird Vallandigham D-OH
- Matthias H. Nichols R-OH
- Richard Mott R-OH
- Aaron Harlan R-OH
- Benjamin Stanton R-OH
- Valentine Baxter Horton R-OH
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Philemon Bliss R-OH
- Cydnor Bailey Tompkins R-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Leiter R-OH
- Edward Wade R-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings R-OH
- John Armor Bingham R-OH
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA
- Edward Joy Morris R-PA
- Henry Myer Phillips D-PA
- Owen Jones D-PA
- John Hickman D-PA
- Henry Chapman D-PA
- William High Keim R-PA
- John Christian Kunkel R-PA
- William Lewis Dewart D-PA
- Paul Leidy D-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow R-PA
- Allison White D-PA
- John Alexander Ahl D-PA
- John Rufus Edie R-PA
- John Covode R-PA
- William Montgomery D-PA
- David Ritchie R-PA
- Samuel Anderson Purviance R-PA
- William Stewart R-PA
- James Lisle Gillis D-PA
- John Dick R-PA
- Nathaniel Briggs Durfee R-RI
- William Daniel Brayton R-RI
- Horace Maynard O-TN
- Charles Ready O-TN
- John Vines Wright D-TN
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer O-TN
- Eliakim Persons Walton R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Homer Elihu Royce R-VT
- John Fox Potter R-WI
- Cadwallader Colden Washburn R-WI
- Charles Billinghurst R-WI
Did not vote
- Edward Allen Warren D-AR
- Joseph Chambers Mckibbin D-CA
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA
- Samuel Ryan Curtis R-IA
- Timothy Davis R-IA
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL
- Thomas Langrell Harris D-IL
- Albert Gallatin Talbott D-KY
- John Milton Sandidge D-LA
- William Shapleigh Damrell R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- James Augustus Stewart D-MD
- Jacob Michael Kunkel D-MD
- James Michael Cavanaugh D-MN
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. O-MO
- Samuel Caruthers D-MO
- John Anthony Quitman D-MS
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance O-NC
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- John Huyler D-NJ
- John Kelly D-NY
- Horace Francis Clark D-NY
- Judson W. Sherman R-NY
- Silas Mainville Burroughs R-NY
- Israel Thompson Hatch D-NY
- William Slocum Groesbeck D-OH
- Lewis Davis Campbell R-OH
- Joseph Randolph Cockerill D-OH
- Lawrence Washington Hall D-OH
- Joseph Burns D-OH
- William Lawrence D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Landy D-PA
- Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
- Anthony Ellmaker Roberts R-PA
- John Gallagher Montgomery D-PA
- William Harrison Dimmick D-PA
- Wilson Reilly D-PA
- Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- William Smith D-VA
- Sherrard Clemens D-VA
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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