House roll call 465 · 35th Congress · Feb 16, 1859
To order a call of the house, motion being made after introduction of H.R. 2, a bill relating to agricultural colleges. (p. 1067-1)
On Feb 16, 1859, the House voted 62–133. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 60–39, Republicans 1–82, Others 1–12. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 40 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
- 62
- No
- 133
- Did not vote
- 50
- Date
- Feb 16, 1859
By party
- Democrats60 yes · 39 no · 36 didn’t vote
- Republicans1 yes · 82 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 12 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Sydenham Moore D-AL voted no
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL voted no
- Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry D-AL voted no
- Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR voted no
- Charles Lewis Scott D-CA voted no
- William Darius Bishop D-CT voted no
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA voted no
- Augustus Romaldus Wright D-GA voted no
- Isaac Newton Morris D-IL voted no
- Robert Smith D-IL voted no
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL voted no
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN voted no
- William Hayden English D-IN voted no
- James Bradford Foley D-IN voted no
- Henry Cornelius Burnett D-KY voted no
- Samuel Oldham Peyton D-KY voted no
- Albert Gallatin Talbott D-KY voted no
- James Brown Clay D-KY voted no
- John Calvin Mason D-KY voted no
- John Milton Sandidge D-LA voted no
- William Wallace Phelps D-MN voted no
- John Smith Phelps D-MO voted no
- Lawrence O'Bryan Branch D-NC voted no
- Garnett Bowditch Adrain D-NJ voted no
- John Huyler D-NJ voted no
- John Alexander Searing D-NY voted no
- William Brown Maclay D-NY voted no
- John Cochrane D-NY voted no
- Horace Francis Clark D-NY voted no
- John Bussing Haskin D-NY voted no
- William Fiero Russell D-NY voted no
- Emory Bemsley Pottle R-NY voted yes
- 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 Alexander Ahl D-PA voted no
- Wilson Reilly D-PA voted no
- William Waters Boyce D-SC voted no
- Paulus Powell D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Adams Stallworth D-AL
- Eli Sims Shorter D-AL
- James Ferguson Dowdell D-AL
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- William Gustavus Whiteley D-DE
- Martin Jenkins Crawford D-GA
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell D-GA
- James Jackson D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Charles Drury Hodges D-IL
- James Madison Gregg D-IN
- John Givan Davis D-IN
- John Milton Elliott D-KY
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Miles Taylor D-LA
- Thomas Green Davidson D-LA
- James Augustus Stewart D-MD
- Thomas Fielder Bowie D-MD
- James Michael Cavanaugh D-MN
- Thomas Lilbourne Anderson O-MO
- John Bullock Clark D-MO
- James Craig D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Reuben Davis D-MS
- William Barksdale D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- John Jones Mcrae D-MS
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC
- Warren Winslow D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- George Taylor D-NY
- Erastus Corning D-NY
- Emory Bemsley Pottle R-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- Clement Laird Vallandigham D-OH
- Joseph Randolph Cockerill D-OH
- Lawrence Washington Hall D-OH
- Joseph Miller D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Henry Chapman D-PA
- Paul Leidy D-PA
- Allison White D-PA
- William Montgomery D-PA
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- William Porcher Miles D-SC
- Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC
- Milledge Luke Bonham D-SC
- Albert Galiton Watkins 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
- William Smith D-VA
- John Letcher D-VA
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins D-VA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson D-VA
- George Washington Hopkins D-VA
How each representative voted: No
- Sydenham Moore D-AL
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
- Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry D-AL
- Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR
- Charles Lewis Scott D-CA
- Sidney Dean R-CT
- William Darius Bishop D-CT
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA
- Robert Pleasant Trippe O-GA
- Augustus Romaldus Wright D-GA
- Joshua Hill O-GA
- Samuel Ryan Curtis R-IA
- Timothy Davis R-IA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne R-IL
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL
- Owen Lovejoy R-IL
- William Kellogg R-IL
- Isaac Newton Morris D-IL
- Robert Smith D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- William Hayden English D-IN
- James Bradford Foley D-IN
- David Kilgore R-IN
- James Wilson R-IN
- Schuyler Colfax R-IN
- Charles Case R-IN
- John Upfold Pettit R-IN
- Henry Cornelius Burnett D-KY
- Samuel Oldham Peyton D-KY
- Albert Gallatin Talbott D-KY
- Humphrey Marshall O-KY
- James Brown Clay D-KY
- John Calvin Mason D-KY
- George Eustis Jr. O-LA
- John Milton Sandidge D-LA
- 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
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. O-MO
- John Smith Phelps D-MO
- Lawrence O'Bryan Branch D-NC
- John Adams Gilmer O-NC
- James Pike R-NH
- Mason Weare Tappan R-NH
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Isaiah Dunn Clawson R-NJ
- George Robbins Robbins R-NJ
- Garnett Bowditch Adrain D-NJ
- John Huyler D-NJ
- John Alexander Searing D-NY
- William Brown Maclay D-NY
- John Cochrane D-NY
- Horace Francis Clark D-NY
- John Bussing Haskin D-NY
- Ambrose Spencer Murray R-NY
- William Fiero Russell D-NY
- John Thompson R-NY
- Abram Baldwin Olin R-NY
- Edward Dodd R-NY
- Francis Elias Spinner R-NY
- Clark Betton Cochrane R-NY
- Oliver Andrew Morse R-NY
- Henry Charles Goodwin R-NY
- Charles Brooks Hoard R-NY
- Amos Phelps Granger R-NY
- Edwin Barber Morgan R-NY
- John Mason Parker R-NY
- William Henry Kelsey R-NY
- Samuel George Andrews R-NY
- Judson W. Sherman R-NY
- Silas Mainville Burroughs R-NY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- 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
- William High Keim R-PA
- Anthony Ellmaker Roberts R-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow R-PA
- John Alexander Ahl D-PA
- Wilson Reilly D-PA
- John Rufus Edie R-PA
- John Covode R-PA
- David Ritchie R-PA
- Samuel Anderson Purviance R-PA
- John Dick R-PA
- Nathaniel Briggs Durfee R-RI
- William Daniel Brayton R-RI
- William Waters Boyce D-SC
- Horace Maynard O-TN
- Charles Ready O-TN
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer O-TN
- Paulus Powell D-VA
- Eliakim Persons Walton R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Homer Elihu Royce R-VT
- Cadwallader Colden Washburn R-WI
- Charles Billinghurst R-WI
Did not vote
- Edward Allen Warren D-AR
- Joseph Chambers Mckibbin D-CA
- Ezra Clark Jr. R-CT
- Samuel Arnold D-CT
- George Sydney Hawkins D-FL
- Thomas Langrell Harris D-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- James Hughes D-IN
- Warner Lewis Underwood O-KY
- Joshua Husband Jewett D-KY
- William Shapleigh Damrell R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- Jacob Michael Kunkel D-MD
- Samuel Hughes Woodson O-MO
- Samuel Caruthers D-MO
- John Anthony Quitman D-MS
- Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance O-NC
- Jacob Reynier Wortendyke D-NJ
- Daniel Edgar Sickles D-NY
- John Kelly D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Barr O-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- George William Palmer R-NY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson R-NY
- Henry Bennett R-NY
- Israel Thompson Hatch D-NY
- William Slocum Groesbeck D-OH
- Lewis Davis Campbell R-OH
- Joseph Burns D-OH
- William Lawrence D-OH
- James Landy D-PA
- John Hickman D-PA
- Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
- John Christian Kunkel R-PA
- William Lewis Dewart D-PA
- John Gallagher Montgomery D-PA
- William Harrison Dimmick D-PA
- William Stewart R-PA
- James Lisle Gillis D-PA
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN
- John Houston Savage D-TN
- John Vines Wright D-TN
- Thomas Stanley Bocock D-VA
- Charles James Faulkner D-VA
- Sherrard Clemens D-VA
- John Fox Potter R-WI
Other votes
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