House roll call 255 · 40th Congress · Mar 3, 1868
To suspend the rules and read a document protesting the proceedings of this house regarding the impeachment of the President.
On Mar 3, 1868, the House voted 49–75. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 18–76, Democrats 33–0, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 18 members voted against their own party.
During the 40th Congress (1867–1868), Andrew Johnson was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 49
- No
- 75
- Did not vote
- 105
- Date
- Mar 3, 1868
By party
- Republicans18 yes · 76 no · 84 didn’t vote
- Democrats33 yes · 0 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA voted yes
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted yes
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted yes
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME voted yes
- Carman Adam Newcomb R-MO voted yes
- Robert Thompson Van Horn R-MO voted yes
- William Henry Robertson R-NY voted yes
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted yes
- John Augustus Griswold R-NY voted yes
- James Madison Marvin R-NY voted yes
- Addison Henry Laflin R-NY voted yes
- John Charles Churchill R-NY voted yes
- Theodore Medad Pomeroy R-NY voted yes
- James Mitchell Ashley R-OH voted yes
- Rufus Paine Spalding R-OH voted yes
- Rufus Mallory R-OR voted yes
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA voted yes
- Worthington Curtis Smith R-VT voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Samuel Beach Axtell D-CA
- James Augustus Johnson D-CA
- Julius Hotchkiss D-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- John Anthony Nicholson D-DE
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- Lewis Winans Ross D-IL
- Albert George Burr D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Lawrence Strother Trimble D-KY
- Jacob Shall Golladay D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Asa Porter Grover D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- George Madison Adams D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Carman Adam Newcomb R-MO
- James Robinson Mccormick D-MO
- Robert Thompson Van Horn R-MO
- Charles Haight D-NJ
- Charles Sitgreaves D-NJ
- Stephen Taber D-NY
- Demas Barnes D-NY
- James Brooks D-NY
- William Henry Robertson R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn D-NY
- John Augustus Griswold R-NY
- James Madison Marvin R-NY
- Addison Henry Laflin R-NY
- John Charles Churchill R-NY
- Theodore Medad Pomeroy R-NY
- James Morgan Humphrey D-NY
- Samuel Fenton Cary O-OH
- William Mungen D-OH
- James Mitchell Ashley R-OH
- Philadelph Van Trump D-OH
- George Washington Morgan D-OH
- Rufus Paine Spalding R-OH
- Rufus Mallory R-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- James Lawrence Getz D-PA
- Adam John Glossbrenner D-PA
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA
- Worthington Curtis Smith R-VT
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- William Higby R-CA
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- Hiram Price R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- William Loughridge R-IA
- Norman Buel Judd R-IL
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne R-IL
- Abner Clark Harding R-IL
- Ebon Clark Ingersoll R-IL
- Burton Chauncey Cook R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Green Berry Raum R-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- George Washington Julian R-IN
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN
- Sidney Clarke R-KS
- Thomas Dawes Eliot R-MA
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- Sidney Perham R-ME
- Frederick Augustus Pike R-ME
- Fernando Cortez Beaman R-MI
- Charles Upson R-MI
- Austin Blair R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Rowland Ebenezer Trowbridge R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- Joseph Jackson Gravely R-MO
- Joseph Washington Mcclurg R-MO
- Benjamin Franklin Loan R-MO
- John Taffe R-NE
- William Moore R-NJ
- John Hill R-NJ
- George Armstrong Halsey R-NJ
- Delos Rodeyn Ashley R-NV
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NY
- Thomas Cornell R-NY
- Orange Ferriss R-NY
- Dennis Mccarthy R-NY
- William Henry Kelsey R-NY
- Henry Van Aernam R-NY
- Benjamin Eggleston R-OH
- Robert Cumming Schenck R-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- Reader Wright Clarke R-OH
- John Beatty R-OH
- John Thomas Wilson R-OH
- Martin Welker R-OH
- Tobias Avery Plants R-OH
- John Armor Bingham R-OH
- Ephraim Ralph Eckley R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Caleb Newbold Taylor R-PA
- John Martin Broomall R-PA
- Henry Lutz Cake R-PA
- Ulysses Mercur R-PA
- George Funston Miller R-PA
- William Henry Koontz R-PA
- Stephen Fowler Wilson R-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Thomas Williams R-PA
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- John Trimble R-TN
- Samuel Mayes Arnell R-TN
- David Alexander Nunn R-TN
- Halbert Eleazer Paine R-WI
- Benjamin Franklin Hopkins R-WI
- Amasa Cobb R-WI
- Cadwallader Colden Washburn R-WI
- Chester Dorman Hubbard R-WV
- Bethuel Middleton Kitchen R-WV
- Daniel Haymond Polsley R-WV
Did not vote
- Francis William Kellogg R-AL
- Charles Waldron Buckley R-AL
- Benjamin White Norris R-AL
- Charles Wilson Pierce R-AL
- John Benton Callis R-AL
- Thomas Haughey R-AL
- Logan Holt Roots R-AR
- James Hinds R-AR
- James Thomas Elliott R-AR
- Thomas Boles R-AR
- Richard Dudley Hubbard D-CT
- Charles Memorial Hamilton R-FL
- Joseph Wales Clift R-GA
- Nelson Tift D-GA
- William Posey Edwards R-GA
- Samuel Francis Gove R-GA
- Charles Henry Prince R-GA
- Pierce Manning Butler Young D-GA
- Grenville Mellen Dodge R-IA
- Asahel Wheeler Hubbard R-IA
- Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell R-IL
- Jehu Baker R-IL
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- John Coburn R-IN
- Henry Dana Washburn R-IN
- Schuyler Colfax R-IN
- William Williams R-IN
- Samuel Mckee R-KY
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- James Mann D-LA
- Joseph Parkinson Newsham R-LA
- Michel Vidal R-LA
- William Jasper Blackburn R-LA
- Oakes Ames R-MA
- Ginery Twichell R-MA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- John Denison Baldwin R-MA
- William Barrett Washburn R-MA
- Hiram Mccullough D-MD
- Charles Edward Phelps O-MD
- Francis Thomas R-MD
- Frederick Stone D-MD
- John Lynch R-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- John Fletcher Driggs R-MI
- Ignatius Donnelly R-MN
- William Anderson Pile R-MO
- Thomas Estes Noell D-MO
- John Hubler Stover R-MO
- John Forbes Benjamin R-MO
- George Washington Anderson R-MO
- John Robert French R-NC
- David Heaton R-NC
- Oliver Hart Dockery R-NC
- John Thomas Deweese R-NC
- Israel George Lash R-NC
- Nathaniel Boyden O-NC
- Alexander Hamilton Jones R-NC
- Jacob Hart Ela R-NH
- Aaron Fletcher Stevens R-NH
- Jacob Benton R-NH
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- John Fox D-NY
- John Morrissey D-NY
- Thomas Elliott Stewart O-NY
- John Winthrop Chanler D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Calvin Tilden Hulburd R-NY
- William Craig Fields R-NY
- Alexander Hamilton Bailey R-NY
- William Slosson Lincoln R-NY
- Hamilton Ward R-NY
- Lewis Selye O-NY
- Burt Van Horn R-NY
- Rutherford Birchard Hayes R-OH
- Samuel Shellabarger R-OH
- Cornelius Springer Hamilton R-OH
- Ralph Pomeroy Buckland R-OH
- Columbus Delano R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Benjamin Markley Boyer D-PA
- Oliver James Dickey R-PA
- Thaddeus Stevens R-PA
- Daniel Myers Van Auken D-PA
- Charles Denison D-PA
- George Washington Woodward D-PA
- Daniel Johnson Morrell R-PA
- Darwin Asahel Finney R-PA
- Solomon Newton Pettis R-PA
- John Covode R-PA
- James Kennedy Moorhead R-PA
- Thomas Allen Jenckes R-RI
- Benjamin Franklin Whittemore R-SC
- Christopher Columbus Bowen R-SC
- Manuel Simeon Corley R-SC
- James Hamilton Goss R-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Horace Maynard R-TN
- William Brickly Stokes R-TN
- James Mullins R-TN
- Isaac Roberts Hawkins R-TN
- Frederick Enoch Woodbridge R-VT
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
Other votes
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