House roll call 497 · 41st Congress · Jan 6, 1871
To table a resolution relating to the imprisonment of peter c. Bliss and george masterman, in paraguay by the President of that republic, and subsequently on TH
On Jan 6, 1871, the House voted 44–118. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 6–105, Democrats 35–12, Others 3–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 18 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
- 44
- No
- 118
- Did not vote
- 94
- Date
- Jan 6, 1871
By party
- Republicans6 yes · 105 no · 67 didn’t vote
- Democrats35 yes · 12 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 1 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Anthony Astley Cooper Rogers D-AR voted no
- Samuel Beach Axtell D-CA voted no
- John Montgomery Crebs D-IL voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted no
- James Burnie Beck D-KY voted no
- Frederick Stone D-MD voted no
- James Robinson Mccormick D-MO voted no
- Adolphus Hitchcock Tanner R-NY voted yes
- William Mungen D-OH voted no
- George Washington Morgan D-OH voted no
- Jacob A. Ambler R-OH voted yes
- James Lawrence Getz D-PA voted no
- Daniel Johnson Morrell R-PA voted yes
- James Scott Negley R-PA voted yes
- John Coggswell Conner D-TX voted no
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT voted yes
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Peter Myndert Dox D-AL
- William Crawford Sherrod D-AL
- James Augustus Johnson D-CA
- Benjamin Thomas Biggs D-DE
- Albert George Burr D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- William Northcut Sweeney D-KY
- Joseph Horace Lewis D-KY
- Boyd Winchester D-KY
- George Madison Adams D-KY
- John McConnell Rice D-KY
- Samuel Hambleton D-MD
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Patrick Hamill D-MD
- Eugene McLanahan Wilson D-MN
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- Charles Haight D-NJ
- John Taylor Bird D-NJ
- Henry Augustus Reeves D-NY
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- John Fox D-NY
- John Morrissey D-NY
- Hervey Chittenden Calkin D-NY
- James Brooks D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- Adolphus Hitchcock Tanner R-NY
- Edward Fenwick Dickinson D-OH
- Philadelph Van Trump D-OH
- Jacob A. Ambler R-OH
- Daniel Myers Van Auken D-PA
- Richard Jacobs Haldeman D-PA
- Daniel Johnson Morrell R-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- George William Booker O-VA
- Richard Thomas Walker Duke O-VA
- James King Gibson O-VA
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Alfred Eliab Buck R-AL
- Charles Waldron Buckley R-AL
- Robert Stell Heflin R-AL
- Anthony Astley Cooper Rogers D-AR
- Samuel Beach Axtell D-CA
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Julius Levi Strong R-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- Charles Memorial Hamilton R-FL
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- William Penn Wolf R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- William Loughridge R-IA
- Francis Wayland Palmer R-IA
- Charles Pomeroy R-IA
- Norman Buel Judd R-IL
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL
- Burton Chauncey Cook R-IL
- Jesse Hale Moore R-IL
- John Breese Hay R-IL
- John Montgomery Crebs D-IL
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- George Washington Julian R-IN
- John Coburn R-IN
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-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
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Ginery Twichell R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- George Merrick Brooks R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Frederick Stone D-MD
- John Lynch R-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Fernando Cortez Beaman R-MI
- William Lewis Stoughton R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg R-MO
- James Robinson Mccormick D-MO
- Sempronius Hamilton Boyd R-MO
- Samuel Swinfin Burdett R-MO
- Robert Thompson Van Horn R-MO
- Joel Funk Asper R-MO
- George Emrick Harris R-MS
- Joseph Lewis Morphis R-MS
- Legrand Winfield Perce R-MS
- Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC
- Alexander Hamilton Jones R-NC
- Jacob Hart Ela R-NH
- Aaron Fletcher Stevens R-NH
- William Moore R-NJ
- Thomas Fitch R-NV
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Orange Ferriss R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Charles Knapp R-NY
- John Charles Churchill R-NY
- Dennis Mccarthy R-NY
- George Washington Cowles R-NY
- William Henry Kelsey R-NY
- John Fisher R-NY
- Job Evans Stevenson R-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- William Mungen D-OH
- John Armstrong Smith R-OH
- John Beatty R-OH
- Erasmus Darwin Peck R-OH
- John Thomas Wilson R-OH
- George Washington Morgan D-OH
- Martin Welker R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Caleb Newbold Taylor R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- James Lawrence Getz D-PA
- Oliver James Dickey R-PA
- Ulysses Mercur R-PA
- William Hepburn Armstrong R-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Calvin Willard Gilfillan R-PA
- John Covode R-PA
- Darwin Phelps R-PA
- Joseph Benton Donley R-PA
- Thomas Allen Jenckes R-RI
- Christopher Columbus Bowen R-SC
- Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC
- Horace Maynard R-TN
- William Brickly Stokes R-TN
- Lewis Tillman R-TN
- William Farrand Prosser R-TN
- Samuel Mayes Arnell R-TN
- Isaac Roberts Hawkins R-TN
- William Jay Smith R-TN
- George Washington Whitmore R-TX
- John Coggswell Conner D-TX
- William Thomas Clark R-TX
- Edward Degener R-TX
- Richard Small Ayer R-VA
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA
- Charles Howell Porter R-VA
- Lewis Mckenzie O-VA
- Halbert Eleazer Paine R-WI
- David Atwood R-WI
- Amasa Cobb R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- James Clark Mcgrew R-WV
Did not vote
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Logan Holt Roots R-AR
- Thomas Boles R-AR
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- 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
- William Smyth R-IA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne R-IL
- Ebon Clark Ingersoll R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Thompson Ware Mcneely D-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Sidney Clarke R-KS
- Lawrence Strother Trimble D-KY
- Jacob Shall Golladay D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Joseph Parkinson Newsham R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- Oakes Ames R-MA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- William Barrett Washburn R-MA
- Samuel Plummer Morrill R-ME
- Austin Blair R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Randolph Strickland R-MI
- Morton Smith Wilkinson R-MN
- John Forbes Benjamin R-MO
- David Patterson Dyer R-MO
- Henry W. Barry R-MS
- George Colin Mckee R-MS
- 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
- John Taffe R-NE
- Jacob Benton R-NH
- John Hill R-NJ
- Orestes Cleveland D-NJ
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- George Woodward Greene D-NY
- John Ashley Griswold D-NY
- Stephen Sanford R-NY
- Addison Henry Laflin R-NY
- Alexander Hamilton Bailey R-NY
- Giles Waldo Hotchkiss R-NY
- Hamilton Ward R-NY
- Charles Horace Holmes R-NY
- Noah Davis R-NY
- David Smith Bennett R-NY
- Porter Sheldon R-NY
- Peter Wilson Strader D-OH
- Robert Cumming Schenck R-OH
- James January Winans R-OH
- Truman Harrison Hoag D-OH
- Eliakim Hastings Moore R-OH
- John Armor Bingham R-OH
- William Hanford Upson R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Joseph Showalter Smith D-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Moffet D-PA
- John Roberts Reading D-PA
- John Dodson Stiles D-PA
- Henry Lutz Cake R-PA
- George Washington Woodward D-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- John Cessna R-PA
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- Benjamin Franklin Whittemore R-SC
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Robert Ridgway O-VA
- William Milnes Jr. O-VA
- Worthington Curtis Smith R-VT
- Benjamin Franklin Hopkins R-WI
- Cadwallader Colden Washburn R-WI
- Isaac Harding Duval R-WV
- John Seashoal Witcher R-WV
Other votes
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