For the first time in exactly 100 years, the U.S. House of Representatives may need more than one round of voting to elect a speaker when the new Congress convenes on Tuesday.
The race pitted antislavery Rep. Nathaniel “Bobbin Boy” Banks, a member of the nativist American Party from Massachusetts, against candidates
The last time a speaker election took more than one ballot was in 1923, when Speaker Frederick Gillett was reelected on the ninth ballot.But the longest speaker vote began on Dec. 3, 1855, when the 34th Congress convened. Democrats controlled the Senate, but no party controlled the House after the disintegration of the Whig Party. About a third of House members were Democrats. The rest belonged to a mix of parties, including the new Republican Party.
Aiken was sure to win over enough Southern House members to gain a plurality and the speakership, newspapers reported. “We think we can count 109 votes for Mr. Aiken, if jealousy or something else does not defeat him,” a Washington Star correspondent wrote. That night, Democratic President Franklin Pierce congratulated Aiken in advance on his victory.On Saturday, Feb. 2, in Washington, “the sun rose on an excited city,” the New Orleans Picayune reported. That afternoon, Rep.
Banks, with his “thick dark hair swept to one side and a prominent mustache obscuring his upper lip,” addressed members from the speaker’s chair, according to the House’s official history. He noted that his job was “now environed with unusual difficulties.”
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