Senate roll call 42 · 41st Congress · Apr 7, 1869
To amend S. 94 (16 stat 47, app may 10, 1869), a bill amending an act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the centra
On Apr 7, 1869, the Senate voted 5–36 (S 94). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 5–29, Democrats 0–7. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 5 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
- 5
- No
- 36
- Did not vote
- 39
- Date
- Apr 7, 1869
By party
- Republicans5 yes · 29 no · 33 didn’t vote
- Democrats0 yes · 7 no · 6 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Benjamin Franklin Rice R-AR voted yes
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL voted yes
- Henry Winslow Corbett R-OR voted yes
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC voted yes
- William Gannaway Brownlow R-TN voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
How each senator voted: No
- Willard Warner R-AL
- Alexander Mcdonald R-AR
- Eugene Casserly D-CA
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- James Harlan R-IA
- James Wilson Grimes R-IA
- Daniel Darwin Pratt R-IN
- Garrett Davis D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- John Spafford Harris R-LA
- Charles Sumner R-MA
- Henry Wilson R-MA
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- William Pitt Fessenden R-ME
- Jacob Merritt Howard R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Alexander Ramsey R-MN
- Charles Daniel Drake R-MO
- Joseph Carter Abbott R-NC
- Thomas Weston Tipton R-NE
- Alexander Gilmore Cattell R-NJ
- John Potter Stockton D-NJ
- James Warren Nye R-NV
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- George Henry Williams R-OR
- John Scott R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Waitman Thomas Willey R-WV
Did not vote
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Cornelius Cole R-CA
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- William Alfred Buckingham R-CT
- Willard Saulsbury Sr. D-DE
- Thomas Ward Osborn R-FL
- Homer Virgil Milton Miller D-GA
- Joshua Hill R-GA
- James Bruen Howell R-IA
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL
- Richard Yates R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Edmund Gibson Ross R-KS
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Vickers D-MD
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Daniel Sheldon Norton D-MN
- Ozora Pierson Stearns R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Carl Schurz R-MO
- Daniel Tarbox Jewett R-MO
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. D-MO
- Adelbert Ames R-MS
- Hiram Rhodes Revels R-MS
- John Pool R-NC
- John Milton Thayer R-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- James Willis Patterson R-NH
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Sprague R-RI
- Frederick Adolphus Sawyer R-SC
- Joseph Smith Fowler R-TN
- James Winright Flanagan R-TX
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- John Francis Lewis R-VA
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Arthur Inghram Boreman R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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Capitol Receipts, “To amend S. 94 (16 stat 47, app may 10…: Senate Vote, Apr 7, 1869,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/41-S-42/to-amend-s-94-16-stat-47-app-may (accessed 2026-10-16).