House roll call 475 · 35th Congress · Feb 21, 1859
To suspend rules in order to introduce a report from comm. On commerce on S. 10, an act to repeal all laws granting allowances or bounties to vessels employed i
On Feb 21, 1859, the House voted 104–104. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 89–20, Republicans 4–80, Others 11–4. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 24 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
- 104
- No
- 104
- Did not vote
- 37
- Date
- Feb 21, 1859
By party
- Democrats89 yes · 20 no · 26 didn’t vote
- Republicans4 yes · 80 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Others11 yes · 4 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Samuel Arnold D-CT voted no
- John Upfold Pettit R-IN voted yes
- Thomas Fielder Bowie D-MD voted no
- Garnett Bowditch Adrain D-NJ voted no
- Horace Francis Clark D-NY voted no
- Erastus Corning D-NY voted no
- Matthias H. Nichols R-OH voted yes
- Richard Mott R-OH voted yes
- Benjamin Franklin Leiter R-OH voted yes
- La Fayette Grover D-OR voted no
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA voted no
- James Landy 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
- William Harrison Dimmick D-PA voted no
- Allison White D-PA voted no
- John Alexander Ahl D-PA voted no
- Wilson Reilly D-PA voted no
- William Montgomery D-PA voted no
- James Lisle Gillis D-PA 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
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb D-AL
- Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry D-AL
- William Darius Bishop D-CT
- William Gustavus Whiteley D-DE
- James Lindsay Seward D-GA
- Martin Jenkins Crawford D-GA
- Robert Pleasant Trippe O-GA
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell D-GA
- Augustus Romaldus Wright D-GA
- James Jackson D-GA
- Joshua Hill O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Isaac Newton Morris D-IL
- Charles Drury Hodges D-IL
- 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
- James Madison Gregg D-IN
- John Givan Davis D-IN
- John Upfold Pettit R-IN
- Henry Cornelius Burnett D-KY
- Samuel Oldham Peyton D-KY
- Albert Gallatin Talbott D-KY
- Joshua Husband Jewett D-KY
- John Milton Elliott D-KY
- Humphrey Marshall O-KY
- John Calvin Mason D-KY
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Thomas Green Davidson D-LA
- John Milton Sandidge D-LA
- James Augustus Stewart D-MD
- Jacob Michael Kunkel D-MD
- Thomas Lilbourne Anderson O-MO
- John Bullock Clark D-MO
- James Craig D-MO
- Samuel Hughes Woodson O-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
- John Jones Mcrae D-MS
- Henry Marchmore Shaw D-NC
- Thomas Ruffin D-NC
- Warren Winslow D-NC
- Lawrence O'Bryan Branch D-NC
- John Adams Gilmer O-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Francis Burton Craige D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance O-NC
- John Huyler D-NJ
- Jacob Reynier Wortendyke D-NJ
- Daniel Edgar Sickles 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
- Israel Thompson Hatch D-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- Clement Laird Vallandigham D-OH
- Matthias H. Nichols R-OH
- Richard Mott R-OH
- Joseph Randolph Cockerill D-OH
- Lawrence Washington Hall D-OH
- Joseph Miller D-OH
- William Lawrence D-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Leiter R-OH
- John Mcqueen D-SC
- William Porcher Miles D-SC
- Laurence Massillon Keitt D-SC
- William Waters Boyce D-SC
- Albert Galiton Watkins D-TN
- Horace Maynard O-TN
- Samuel Axley Smith D-TN
- John Houston Savage D-TN
- Charles Ready O-TN
- George Washington Jones D-TN
- John Vines Wright D-TN
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer O-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
- William Smith 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
- Ezra Clark Jr. R-CT
- Samuel Arnold D-CT
- Sidney Dean R-CT
- Samuel Ryan Curtis R-IA
- Timothy Davis R-IA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne R-IL
- Owen Lovejoy R-IL
- David Kilgore R-IN
- James Wilson R-IN
- Schuyler Colfax R-IN
- Charles Case R-IN
- Warner Lewis Underwood 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
- Thomas Fielder Bowie D-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
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. O-MO
- 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
- Horace Francis Clark 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 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
- Judson W. Sherman R-NY
- Aaron Harlan R-OH
- Benjamin Stanton R-OH
- Valentine Baxter Horton R-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Philemon Bliss R-OH
- Cydnor Bailey Tompkins R-OH
- Edward Wade R-OH
- Joshua Reed Giddings R-OH
- John Armor Bingham R-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Thomas Birch Florence D-PA
- Edward Joy Morris R-PA
- James Landy D-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
- William Harrison Dimmick D-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow R-PA
- Allison White D-PA
- John Alexander Ahl D-PA
- Wilson Reilly 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
- 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
- Alfred Burton Greenwood D-AR
- Edward Allen Warren D-AR
- Charles Lewis Scott D-CA
- Joseph Chambers Mckibbin D-CA
- George Sydney Hawkins D-FL
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL
- William Kellogg R-IL
- Thomas Langrell Harris D-IL
- James Brown Clay D-KY
- George Eustis Jr. O-LA
- Miles Taylor D-LA
- William Shapleigh Damrell R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- Henry Winter Davis O-MD
- James Michael Cavanaugh D-MN
- William Wallace Phelps D-MN
- Samuel Caruthers D-MO
- John Anthony Quitman D-MS
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- John Alexander Searing D-NY
- George Taylor D-NY
- John Kelly D-NY
- John Bussing Haskin D-NY
- Henry Bennett R-NY
- Silas Mainville Burroughs R-NY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- William Slocum Groesbeck D-OH
- Lewis Davis Campbell R-OH
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-OH
- Joseph Burns D-OH
- Jehu Glancy Jones D-PA
- Anthony Ellmaker Roberts R-PA
- John Gallagher Montgomery D-PA
- Milledge Luke Bonham D-SC
- James Lawrence Orr D-SC
- Sherrard Clemens D-VA
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins D-VA
Other votes
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