House roll call 118 · 42nd Congress · Jan 25, 1872
To adopt a substitute resolution, asking that the President inform the house under what provision of law he has declared martial law and suspended writ of habea
On Jan 25, 1872, the House voted 84–115. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–113, Democrats 84–0, Others 0–2. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 42nd Congress (1871–1872), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 84
- No
- 115
- Did not vote
- 55
- Date
- Jan 25, 1872
By party
- Republicans0 yes · 113 no · 30 didn’t vote
- Democrats84 yes · 0 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 2 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Anderson Handley D-AL
- Peter Myndert Dox D-AL
- Joseph Humphrey Sloss D-AL
- James Millander Hanks D-AR
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Benjamin Thomas Biggs D-DE
- Archibald Thompson Macintyre D-GA
- Dudley McIver Du Bose D-GA
- William Pierce Price D-GA
- Pierce Manning Butler Young D-GA
- Thompson Ware Mcneely D-IL
- Edward Young Rice 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
- 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
- John McConnell Rice D-KY
- Samuel Hambleton D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- John Ritchie D-MD
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- James Robinson Mccormick D-MO
- Abram Comingo D-MO
- Andrew King D-MO
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- James Madison Leach D-NC
- Francis Edwin Shober 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
- Charles West Kendall D-NV
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- William Randall Roberts D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- James Brooks D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- Eli Perry D-NY
- Joseph Mabbett Warren D-NY
- John Rogers D-NY
- John Michael Carroll D-NY
- John Franklin Mckinney D-OH
- Charles Nelson Lamison D-OH
- Philadelph Van Trump D-OH
- George Washington Morgan D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Ephraim Leister Acker D-PA
- James Lawrence Getz D-PA
- Richard Jacobs Haldeman D-PA
- Benjamin Franklin Meyers D-PA
- Henry Sherwood D-PA
- Samuel Griffith D-PA
- Henry Donnel Foster D-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
- John Hancock D-TX
- Richard Thomas Walker Duke D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Elliott Muse Braxton D-VA
- William Terry D-VA
- Alexander Mitchell D-WI
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
- John James Davis D-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Benjamin Sterling Turner R-AL
- Charles Waldron Buckley R-AL
- Oliver P. Snyder R-AR
- John Edwards O-AR
- Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- John Maxwell Coghlan R-CA
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- Richard Henry Whiteley R-GA
- John Summerfield Bigby R-GA
- Thomas Jefferson Speer R-GA
- Aylett Rains Cotton R-IA
- William G. Donnan R-IA
- Madison Miner Walden R-IA
- Francis Wayland Palmer R-IA
- Jackson Orr R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL
- Henry Snapp R-IL
- Jesse Hale Moore R-IL
- John Breese Hay R-IL
- John Lourie Beveridge 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
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- George Merrick Brooks R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- John Lynch R-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- William Lewis Stoughton R-MI
- Wilder De Ayr Foster R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- John Thomas Averill R-MN
- Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg O-MO
- Harrison Eugene Havens R-MO
- Samuel Swinfin Burdett R-MO
- Isaac Charles Parker R-MO
- Joseph Lewis Morphis R-MS
- Henry W. Barry R-MS
- George Colin Mckee R-MS
- Legrand Winfield Perce R-MS
- Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC
- Charles Randolph Thomas R-NC
- John Taffe R-NE
- John Wright Hazelton R-NJ
- John Hill R-NJ
- George Armstrong Halsey R-NJ
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Elizur H. Prindle R-NY
- Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY
- Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY
- William Esselstyne Lansing R-NY
- Rodolphus Holland Duell R-NY
- John Edward Seeley R-NY
- William Henry Lamport R-NY
- Seth Wakeman R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Aaron Fyfe Perry R-OH
- Job Evans Stevenson R-OH
- John Armstrong Smith R-OH
- Samuel Shellabarger R-OH
- John Beatty R-OH
- Charles Foster 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
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Ulysses Mercur R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- James Scott Negley 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
- William Thomas Clark R-TX
- Charles Howell Porter R-VA
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT
- Luke Potter Poland 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
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Julius Levi Strong R-CT
- Silas Leslie Niblack D-FL
- Erasmus Williams Beck D-GA
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- Bradford Newcomb Stevens D-IL
- Burton Chauncey Cook R-IL
- James Carroll Robinson D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- George Madison Adams D-KY
- Alexander (Aleck) Boarman O-LA
- James Mccleery R-LA
- Oakes Ames R-MA
- Ginery Twichell R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- Constantine Canaris Esty R-MA
- Alvah Crocker R-MA
- William Barrett Washburn R-MA
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- William M. Merrick D-MD
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Austin Blair R-MI
- Jabez Gridley Sutherland D-MI
- James Gorrall Blair O-MO
- George Emrick Harris R-MS
- Sion Hart Rogers D-NC
- Dwight Townsend D-NY
- Thomas Kinsella D-NY
- Robert Barnwell Roosevelt D-NY
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- Charles St. John R-NY
- Joseph Hasbrouck Tuthill D-NY
- Milo Goodrich R-NY
- Horace Boardman Smith R-NY
- Freeman Clarke R-NY
- William Williams D-NY
- Ozro John Dodds D-OH
- Lewis Davis Campbell D-OH
- John Vaudain Creely O-PA
- Oliver James Dickey R-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Lazarus Denison Shoemaker R-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- Robert Milton Speer D-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Robert Carlos De Large R-SC
- Robert Brown Elliott R-SC
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- John Critcher D-VA
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA
- Worthington Curtis Smith R-VT
Other votes
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