House roll call 110 · 42nd Congress · Jan 15, 1872
To suspend rules and introduce H.R. 1050, a bill to remove political disabilities. (p. 398-1,2)
On Jan 15, 1872, the House voted 132–70 (HR 1050). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 39–70, Democrats 91–0, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 39 members voted against their own party.
During the 42nd Congress (1871–1872), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 132
- No
- 70
- Did not vote
- 52
- Date
- Jan 15, 1872
By party
- Republicans39 yes · 70 no · 34 didn’t vote
- Democrats91 yes · 0 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Benjamin Sterling Turner R-AL voted yes
- Charles Waldron Buckley R-AL voted yes
- Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA voted yes
- John Maxwell Coghlan R-CA voted yes
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Speer R-GA voted yes
- William G. Donnan R-IA voted yes
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL voted yes
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL voted yes
- John Breese Hay R-IL voted yes
- John Lourie Beveridge R-IL voted yes
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA voted yes
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA voted yes
- Frank Morey R-LA voted yes
- Ginery Twichell R-MA voted yes
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA voted yes
- George Merrick Brooks R-MA voted yes
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted yes
- John Andrew Peters R-ME voted yes
- Eugene Hale R-ME voted yes
- Austin Blair R-MI voted yes
- Wilder De Ayr Foster R-MI voted yes
- Samuel Swinfin Burdett R-MO voted yes
- George Emrick Harris R-MS voted yes
- Henry W. Barry R-MS voted yes
- George Colin Mckee R-MS voted yes
- Charles Randolph Thomas R-NC voted yes
- John Hill R-NJ voted yes
- George Armstrong Halsey R-NJ voted yes
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted yes
- Seth Wakeman R-NY voted yes
- Aaron Fyfe Perry R-OH voted yes
- Job Evans Stevenson R-OH voted yes
- Charles Foster R-OH voted yes
- James Abram Garfield R-OH voted yes
- Lazarus Denison Shoemaker R-PA voted yes
- James Scott Negley R-PA voted yes
- William Thomas Clark R-TX voted yes
- Worthington Curtis Smith R-VT voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Benjamin Sterling Turner R-AL
- Charles Waldron Buckley R-AL
- William Anderson Handley D-AL
- Peter Myndert Dox D-AL
- Joseph Humphrey Sloss D-AL
- James Millander Hanks D-AR
- John Edwards O-AR
- Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA
- John Maxwell Coghlan R-CA
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT
- Benjamin Thomas Biggs D-DE
- Archibald Thompson Macintyre D-GA
- Thomas Jefferson Speer R-GA
- Dudley McIver Du Bose D-GA
- William Pierce Price D-GA
- William G. Donnan R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL
- Bradford Newcomb Stevens D-IL
- Thompson Ware Mcneely D-IL
- Edward Young Rice D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- John Breese Hay R-IL
- John Montgomery Crebs D-IL
- John Lourie Beveridge R-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Mahlon Dickerson Manson D-IN
- Edward Crossland D-KY
- Henry Davis Mchenry D-KY
- Joseph Horace Lewis D-KY
- William Brown Read D-KY
- Boyd Winchester D-KY
- William Evans Arthur D-KY
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- George Madison Adams D-KY
- John McConnell Rice D-KY
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- Ginery Twichell R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- George Merrick Brooks R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Samuel Hambleton D-MD
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- John Ritchie D-MD
- William M. Merrick D-MD
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Austin Blair R-MI
- Wilder De Ayr Foster R-MI
- Jabez Gridley Sutherland D-MI
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg O-MO
- James Robinson Mccormick D-MO
- Samuel Swinfin Burdett R-MO
- Abram Comingo D-MO
- Andrew King D-MO
- George Emrick Harris R-MS
- Henry W. Barry R-MS
- George Colin Mckee R-MS
- Charles Randolph Thomas R-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- James Madison Leach D-NC
- James Clarence Harper D-NC
- Ellery Albee Hibbard D-NH
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
- Hosea Washington Parker D-NH
- Samuel Carr Forker D-NJ
- John Taylor Bird D-NJ
- John Hill R-NJ
- George Armstrong Halsey R-NJ
- Thomas Kinsella D-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- Robert Barnwell Roosevelt D-NY
- William Randall Roberts D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- James Brooks D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Joseph Hasbrouck Tuthill D-NY
- Eli Perry D-NY
- Joseph Mabbett Warren D-NY
- John Rogers D-NY
- John Michael Carroll D-NY
- Seth Wakeman R-NY
- William Williams D-NY
- Aaron Fyfe Perry R-OH
- Job Evans Stevenson R-OH
- Charles Nelson Lamison D-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Philadelph Van Trump D-OH
- George Washington Morgan D-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Ephraim Leister Acker D-PA
- James Lawrence Getz D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Lazarus Denison Shoemaker R-PA
- Richard Jacobs Haldeman D-PA
- Benjamin Franklin Meyers D-PA
- Robert Milton Speer D-PA
- Henry Sherwood D-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- William Mcclelland D-PA
- Abraham Ellison Garrett D-TN
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- Edward Isaac Golladay D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Robert Porter Caldwell D-TN
- William Wirt Vaughan D-TN
- William Smith Herndon D-TX
- John Coggswell Conner D-TX
- William Thomas Clark R-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- John Critcher D-VA
- Richard Thomas Walker Duke D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Elliott Muse Braxton D-VA
- William Terry D-VA
- Worthington Curtis Smith R-VT
- Alexander Mitchell D-WI
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
- John James Davis D-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Oliver P. Snyder R-AR
- Julius Levi Strong R-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- Aylett Rains Cotton R-IA
- Madison Miner Walden R-IA
- Francis Wayland Palmer R-IA
- Jackson Orr R-IA
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL
- Henry Snapp R-IL
- Jeremiah Morrow Wilson R-IN
- John Coburn R-IN
- James Noble Tyner R-IN
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN
- William Williams R-IN
- Jasper Packard R-IN
- David Perley Lowe R-KS
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- John Lynch R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- William Lewis Stoughton R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- John Taffe R-NE
- John Wright Hazelton R-NJ
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Elizur H. Prindle R-NY
- Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY
- Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY
- Rodolphus Holland Duell R-NY
- John Edward Seeley R-NY
- William Henry Lamport R-NY
- Milo Goodrich R-NY
- Horace Boardman Smith R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- John Armstrong Smith R-OH
- Samuel Shellabarger R-OH
- John Beatty R-OH
- Erasmus Darwin Peck R-OH
- John Thomas Wilson R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- William Peter Sprague R-OH
- John Armor Bingham R-OH
- Jacob A. Ambler R-OH
- William Hanford Upson R-OH
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- Ulysses Mercur R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- Ebenezer Mcjunkin R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- James Monroe Pendleton R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Horace Maynard R-TN
- Charles Howell Porter R-VA
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT
- Gerry Whiting Hazelton R-WI
- Joel Allen Barber R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
- James Clark Mcgrew R-WV
Did not vote
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Thomas Boles R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Silas Leslie Niblack D-FL
- Richard Henry Whiteley R-GA
- John Summerfield Bigby R-GA
- Erasmus Williams Beck D-GA
- Pierce Manning Butler Young D-GA
- Burton Chauncey Cook R-IL
- Jesse Hale Moore R-IL
- James Carroll Robinson D-IL
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- Alexander (Aleck) Boarman O-LA
- James Mccleery R-LA
- Oakes Ames R-MA
- Constantine Canaris Esty R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Alvah Crocker R-MA
- William Barrett Washburn R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- John Thomas Averill R-MN
- Harrison Eugene Havens R-MO
- Isaac Charles Parker R-MO
- James Gorrall Blair O-MO
- Joseph Lewis Morphis R-MS
- Legrand Winfield Perce R-MS
- Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC
- Sion Hart Rogers D-NC
- Francis Edwin Shober D-NC
- Charles West Kendall D-NV
- Dwight Townsend D-NY
- Charles St. John R-NY
- William Esselstyne Lansing R-NY
- Freeman Clarke R-NY
- Ozro John Dodds D-OH
- Lewis Davis Campbell D-OH
- John Franklin Mckinney D-OH
- John Vaudain Creely O-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Oliver James Dickey R-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Samuel Griffith D-PA
- Henry Donnel Foster D-PA
- Robert Carlos De Large R-SC
- Robert Brown Elliott R-SC
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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