House roll call 460 · 41st Congress · Jul 13, 1870
To suspend rules and pass a resolution to remove political disabilities. (p. 5524-2)
On Jul 13, 1870, the House voted 76–101. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 20–102, Democrats 54–0, Others 3–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 20 members voted against their own party.
During the 41st Congress (1869–1870), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 76
- No
- 101
- Did not vote
- 77
- Date
- Jul 13, 1870
By party
- Republicans20 yes · 102 no · 56 didn’t vote
- Democrats54 yes · 0 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 0 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Charles Waldron Buckley R-AL voted yes
- Robert Stell Heflin R-AL voted yes
- Charles Hays R-AL voted yes
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA voted yes
- Julius Levi Strong R-CT voted yes
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT voted yes
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL voted yes
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA voted yes
- George Emrick Harris R-MS voted yes
- Joseph Lewis Morphis R-MS voted yes
- Henry W. Barry R-MS voted yes
- George Colin Mckee R-MS voted yes
- Legrand Winfield Perce R-MS voted yes
- Alexander Hamilton Bailey R-NY voted yes
- William Brickly Stokes R-TN voted yes
- Lewis Tillman R-TN voted yes
- William Farrand Prosser R-TN voted yes
- Isaac Roberts Hawkins R-TN voted yes
- Richard Small Ayer R-VA voted yes
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Charles Waldron Buckley R-AL
- Robert Stell Heflin R-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Peter Myndert Dox D-AL
- William Crawford Sherrod D-AL
- Anthony Astley Cooper Rogers D-AR
- Samuel Beach Axtell D-CA
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- James Augustus Johnson D-CA
- Julius Levi Strong R-CT
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL
- Thompson Ware Mcneely D-IL
- Albert George Burr D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- John Montgomery Crebs D-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Lawrence Strother Trimble D-KY
- William Northcut Sweeney D-KY
- Joseph Horace Lewis D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Boyd Winchester D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- George Madison Adams D-KY
- John McConnell Rice D-KY
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA
- Samuel Hambleton D-MD
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Patrick Hamill D-MD
- Frederick Stone D-MD
- Eugene McLanahan Wilson D-MN
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- James Robinson Mccormick D-MO
- George Emrick Harris R-MS
- Joseph Lewis Morphis R-MS
- Henry W. Barry R-MS
- George Colin Mckee R-MS
- Legrand Winfield Perce R-MS
- Charles Haight D-NJ
- John Taylor Bird D-NJ
- Orestes Cleveland D-NJ
- Henry Augustus Reeves D-NY
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- John Fox D-NY
- James Brooks D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- John Ashley Griswold D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- Alexander Hamilton Bailey R-NY
- Edward Fenwick Dickinson D-OH
- Philadelph Van Trump D-OH
- George Washington Morgan D-OH
- Joseph Showalter Smith D-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Dodson Stiles D-PA
- James Lawrence Getz D-PA
- Daniel Myers Van Auken D-PA
- George Washington Woodward D-PA
- Richard Jacobs Haldeman D-PA
- William Brickly Stokes R-TN
- Lewis Tillman R-TN
- William Farrand Prosser R-TN
- Isaac Roberts Hawkins R-TN
- Richard Small Ayer R-VA
- George William Booker O-VA
- William Milnes Jr. O-VA
- Lewis Mckenzie O-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Logan Holt Roots R-AR
- Thomas Boles R-AR
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- Charles Memorial Hamilton R-FL
- William Smyth R-IA
- William Loughridge R-IA
- Francis Wayland Palmer R-IA
- Norman Buel Judd R-IL
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL
- Jesse Hale Moore R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- George Washington Julian R-IN
- John Coburn R-IN
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN
- James Noble Tyner R-IN
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN
- William Williams R-IN
- Jasper Packard R-IN
- Sidney Clarke R-KS
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Oakes Ames R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- George Merrick Brooks R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- William Barrett Washburn R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- William Lewis Stoughton R-MI
- Austin Blair R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Randolph Strickland R-MI
- Morton Smith Wilkinson R-MN
- Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg R-MO
- Sempronius Hamilton Boyd R-MO
- Samuel Swinfin Burdett R-MO
- Robert Thompson Van Horn R-MO
- Joel Funk Asper R-MO
- John Forbes Benjamin R-MO
- Aaron Fletcher Stevens R-NH
- Jacob Benton R-NH
- William Moore R-NJ
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Orange Ferriss R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Stephen Sanford R-NY
- Charles Knapp R-NY
- Addison Henry Laflin R-NY
- John Charles Churchill R-NY
- Dennis Mccarthy R-NY
- George Washington Cowles R-NY
- William Henry Kelsey R-NY
- Giles Waldo Hotchkiss R-NY
- Hamilton Ward R-NY
- Noah Davis R-NY
- John Fisher R-NY
- Job Evans Stevenson R-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- John Armstrong Smith R-OH
- John Beatty R-OH
- Erasmus Darwin Peck R-OH
- John Thomas Wilson R-OH
- Martin Welker R-OH
- Eliakim Hastings Moore R-OH
- Jacob A. Ambler R-OH
- William Hanford Upson R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- Caleb Newbold Taylor R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Oliver James Dickey R-PA
- Henry Lutz Cake R-PA
- Ulysses Mercur R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- John Cessna R-PA
- Daniel Johnson Morrell R-PA
- William Hepburn Armstrong R-PA
- John Covode R-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Darwin Phelps R-PA
- Joseph Benton Donley R-PA
- Thomas Allen Jenckes R-RI
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Horace Maynard R-TN
- Samuel Mayes Arnell R-TN
- William Jay Smith R-TN
- George Washington Whitmore R-TX
- William Thomas Clark R-TX
- Edward Degener R-TX
- Charles Howell Porter R-VA
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT
- Halbert Eleazer Paine R-WI
- David Atwood R-WI
- Amasa Cobb R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Isaac Harding Duval R-WV
- James Clark Mcgrew R-WV
Did not vote
- Alfred Eliab Buck R-AL
- Benjamin Thomas Biggs D-DE
- William Wiseham Paine D-GA
- Richard Henry Whiteley R-GA
- Marion Bethune R-GA
- Jefferson Franklin Long R-GA
- Stephen Alfestus Corker D-GA
- William Pierce Price D-GA
- Pierce Manning Butler Young D-GA
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- William Penn Wolf R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Charles Pomeroy R-IA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Ebon Clark Ingersoll R-IL
- Burton Chauncey Cook R-IL
- John Breese Hay R-IL
- Jacob Shall Golladay D-KY
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- Joseph Parkinson Newsham R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- Ginery Twichell R-MA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- John Lynch R-ME
- Samuel Plummer Morrill R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Fernando Cortez Beaman R-MI
- David Patterson Dyer R-MO
- Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC
- David Heaton R-NC
- Joseph Dixon R-NC
- Oliver Hart Dockery R-NC
- John Manning Jr. D-NC
- John Thomas Deweese R-NC
- Israel George Lash R-NC
- Francis Edwin Shober D-NC
- Alexander Hamilton Jones R-NC
- John Taffe R-NE
- Jacob Hart Ela R-NH
- John Hill R-NJ
- Thomas Fitch R-NV
- John Morrissey D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Hervey Chittenden Calkin D-NY
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NY
- George Woodward Greene D-NY
- Adolphus Hitchcock Tanner R-NY
- Charles Horace Holmes R-NY
- David Smith Bennett R-NY
- Porter Sheldon R-NY
- Peter Wilson Strader D-OH
- Robert Cumming Schenck R-OH
- William Mungen D-OH
- James January Winans R-OH
- Truman Harrison Hoag D-OH
- John Armor Bingham R-OH
- John Moffet D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- John Roberts Reading D-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Calvin Willard Gilfillan R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin Whittemore R-SC
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Christopher Columbus Bowen R-SC
- Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- John Coggswell Conner D-TX
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA
- Richard Thomas Walker Duke O-VA
- Robert Ridgway O-VA
- James King Gibson O-VA
- Worthington Curtis Smith R-VT
- Benjamin Franklin Hopkins R-WI
- Cadwallader Colden Washburn R-WI
- John Seashoal Witcher R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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