House roll call 536 · 41st Congress · Feb 2, 1871
To recommit S.J. RES. 44, extending the time to construct a railroad from the ST. Croix river or lake to the west end of the lake superior and to bayfield. (p.
On Feb 2, 1871, the House voted 104–84 (SJR 1). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 67–77, Democrats 44–10, Others 0–4. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 77 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
- 104
- No
- 84
- Did not vote
- 54
- Date
- Feb 2, 1871
By party
- Republicans67 yes · 77 no · 34 didn’t vote
- Democrats44 yes · 10 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 4 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Peter Myndert Dox D-AL voted no
- William Crawford Sherrod D-AL voted no
- Anthony Astley Cooper Rogers D-AR voted no
- Julius Levi Strong R-CT voted yes
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT voted yes
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT voted yes
- William Pierce Price D-GA voted no
- Pierce Manning Butler Young D-GA voted no
- Norman Buel Judd R-IL voted yes
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted yes
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL voted yes
- Burton Chauncey Cook R-IL voted yes
- John Breese Hay R-IL voted yes
- George Washington Julian R-IN voted yes
- John Coburn R-IN voted yes
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN voted yes
- James Noble Tyner R-IN voted yes
- William Williams R-IN voted yes
- Jasper Packard R-IN voted yes
- Sidney Clarke R-KS voted yes
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA voted yes
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA voted yes
- Frank Morey R-LA voted yes
- James Buffinton R-MA voted yes
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted yes
- William Barrett Washburn R-MA voted yes
- Patrick Hamill D-MD voted no
- Eugene McLanahan Wilson D-MN voted no
- Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg R-MO voted yes
- James Robinson Mccormick D-MO voted no
- David Patterson Dyer R-MO 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
- Joseph Dixon R-NC voted yes
- Oliver Hart Dockery R-NC voted yes
- Jacob Hart Ela R-NH voted yes
- Aaron Fletcher Stevens R-NH voted yes
- Jacob Benton R-NH voted yes
- William Moore R-NJ voted yes
- John Hill R-NJ voted yes
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted yes
- Charles Knapp R-NY voted yes
- Alexander Hamilton Bailey R-NY voted yes
- William Henry Kelsey R-NY voted yes
- Hamilton Ward R-NY voted yes
- Charles Horace Holmes R-NY voted yes
- Job Evans Stevenson R-OH voted yes
- William Lawrence R-OH voted yes
- John Armstrong Smith R-OH voted yes
- James January Winans R-OH voted yes
- John Beatty R-OH voted yes
- Martin Welker R-OH voted yes
- Eliakim Hastings Moore R-OH voted yes
- John Armor Bingham R-OH voted yes
- Jacob A. Ambler R-OH voted yes
- William Hanford Upson R-OH voted yes
- James Abram Garfield R-OH voted yes
- Joseph Showalter Smith D-OR voted no
- Oliver James Dickey R-PA voted yes
- Ulysses Mercur R-PA voted yes
- John Black Packer R-PA voted yes
- John Cessna R-PA voted yes
- Darwin Phelps R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Benton Donley R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC voted yes
- Samuel Mayes Arnell R-TN voted yes
- Edward Degener R-TX voted yes
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA voted yes
- Charles Howell Porter R-VA voted yes
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT voted yes
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI voted no
- Isaac Harding Duval R-WV voted yes
- James Clark Mcgrew R-WV voted yes
- John Seashoal Witcher R-WV voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Augustus Johnson D-CA
- Julius Levi Strong R-CT
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Benjamin Thomas Biggs D-DE
- William Wiseham Paine D-GA
- Norman Buel Judd R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL
- Burton Chauncey Cook R-IL
- Thompson Ware Mcneely D-IL
- Albert George Burr D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- John Breese Hay R-IL
- John Montgomery Crebs D-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- 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
- William Williams R-IN
- Jasper Packard R-IN
- Sidney Clarke R-KS
- William Northcut Sweeney D-KY
- Joseph Horace Lewis D-KY
- Boyd Winchester D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- George Madison Adams D-KY
- John McConnell Rice D-KY
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- William Barrett Washburn R-MA
- Samuel Hambleton D-MD
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg R-MO
- David Patterson Dyer R-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
- Joseph Dixon R-NC
- Oliver Hart Dockery R-NC
- John Manning Jr. D-NC
- Francis Edwin Shober D-NC
- Jacob Hart Ela R-NH
- Aaron Fletcher Stevens R-NH
- Jacob Benton R-NH
- William Moore R-NJ
- Charles Haight D-NJ
- John Taylor Bird D-NJ
- John Hill R-NJ
- Orestes Cleveland D-NJ
- Henry Augustus Reeves D-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Hervey Chittenden Calkin D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Ashley Griswold D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- Charles Knapp R-NY
- Alexander Hamilton Bailey R-NY
- William Henry Kelsey R-NY
- Hamilton Ward R-NY
- Charles Horace Holmes R-NY
- Peter Wilson Strader D-OH
- Job Evans Stevenson R-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- John Armstrong Smith R-OH
- James January Winans R-OH
- John Beatty R-OH
- Edward Fenwick Dickinson D-OH
- Philadelph Van Trump D-OH
- George Washington Morgan D-OH
- Martin Welker R-OH
- Eliakim Hastings Moore R-OH
- John Armor Bingham R-OH
- Jacob A. Ambler R-OH
- William Hanford Upson R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Dodson Stiles D-PA
- James Lawrence Getz D-PA
- Oliver James Dickey R-PA
- Daniel Myers Van Auken D-PA
- George Washington Woodward D-PA
- Ulysses Mercur R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- Richard Jacobs Haldeman D-PA
- John Cessna R-PA
- Darwin Phelps R-PA
- Joseph Benton Donley R-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Samuel Mayes Arnell R-TN
- John Coggswell Conner D-TX
- Edward Degener R-TX
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA
- Charles Howell Porter R-VA
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT
- Isaac Harding Duval R-WV
- James Clark Mcgrew R-WV
- John Seashoal Witcher R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Alfred Eliab Buck R-AL
- Charles Waldron Buckley R-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Peter Myndert Dox D-AL
- William Crawford Sherrod D-AL
- Logan Holt Roots R-AR
- Anthony Astley Cooper Rogers D-AR
- Thomas Boles R-AR
- Marion Bethune R-GA
- Jefferson Franklin Long R-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
- William Loughridge R-IA
- Francis Wayland Palmer R-IA
- Charles Pomeroy R-IA
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Joseph Parkinson Newsham R-LA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- George Merrick Brooks R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Patrick Hamill 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
- Austin Blair R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Randolph Strickland R-MI
- Morton Smith Wilkinson R-MN
- Eugene McLanahan Wilson D-MN
- 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
- John Forbes Benjamin R-MO
- Israel George Lash R-NC
- John Taffe R-NE
- Thomas Fitch R-NV
- Adolphus Hitchcock Tanner R-NY
- Orange Ferriss R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Stephen Sanford R-NY
- Addison Henry Laflin R-NY
- John Charles Churchill R-NY
- George Washington Cowles R-NY
- John Fisher R-NY
- Porter Sheldon R-NY
- Erasmus Darwin Peck R-OH
- John Thomas Wilson R-OH
- Joseph Showalter Smith D-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Caleb Newbold Taylor R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Daniel Johnson Morrell R-PA
- William Hepburn Armstrong R-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Calvin Willard Gilfillan R-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Thomas Allen Jenckes R-RI
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- Christopher Columbus Bowen R-SC
- Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Horace Maynard R-TN
- William Brickly Stokes R-TN
- Lewis Tillman R-TN
- William Jay Smith R-TN
- William Thomas Clark R-TX
- Richard Small Ayer R-VA
- George William Booker O-VA
- William Milnes Jr. O-VA
- Lewis Mckenzie O-VA
- James King Gibson O-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- Halbert Eleazer Paine R-WI
- David Atwood R-WI
- Amasa Cobb R-WI
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Cadwallader Colden Washburn R-WI
Did not vote
- Robert Stell Heflin R-AL
- Samuel Beach Axtell D-CA
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Charles Memorial Hamilton R-FL
- Richard Henry Whiteley R-GA
- Stephen Alfestus Corker D-GA
- William Smyth R-IA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne R-IL
- Ebon Clark Ingersoll R-IL
- Jesse Hale Moore R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN
- Lawrence Strother Trimble D-KY
- Jacob Shall Golladay D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA
- Oakes Ames R-MA
- Ginery Twichell R-MA
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- Frederick Stone D-MD
- Samuel Plummer Morrill R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC
- David Heaton R-NC
- John Thomas Deweese R-NC
- Alexander Hamilton Jones R-NC
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- John Fox D-NY
- John Morrissey D-NY
- James Brooks D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NY
- George Woodward Greene D-NY
- Dennis Mccarthy R-NY
- Giles Waldo Hotchkiss R-NY
- Noah Davis R-NY
- David Smith Bennett R-NY
- Robert Cumming Schenck R-OH
- William Mungen D-OH
- Truman Harrison Hoag D-OH
- John Moffet D-PA
- John Roberts Reading D-PA
- Henry Lutz Cake R-PA
- John Covode R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin Whittemore R-SC
- William Farrand Prosser R-TN
- Isaac Roberts Hawkins R-TN
- George Washington Whitmore R-TX
- Richard Thomas Walker Duke O-VA
- Robert Ridgway O-VA
- Worthington Curtis Smith R-VT
- Benjamin Franklin Hopkins R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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Capitol Receipts, “To recommit S.J. RES. 44, extending the time…: House Vote, Feb 2, 1871,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/41-H-536/to-recommit-s-j-res-44-extending-the-time (accessed 2026-10-13).