To suspend the rules and concur in a Senate resolution regarding final adjournment. (p. 3652-2)

On May 20, 1872, the House voted 162–51. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 69–50, Democrats 91–1, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 51 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: 162
No: 51
Did not vote: 41
Date: May 20, 1872

By party

Republicans69 yes · 50 no · 24 didn’t vote
Democrats91 yes · 1 no · 14 didn’t vote
Others2 yes · 0 no · 3 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Benjamin Sterling Turner R-AL voted no
Charles Waldron Buckley R-AL voted no
Charles Hays R-AL voted no
Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA voted no
Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL voted no
John Summerfield Bigby R-GA voted no
Aylett Rains Cotton R-IA voted no
Jackson Orr R-IA voted no
Jeremiah Morrow Wilson R-IN voted no
John Coburn R-IN voted no
James Noble Tyner R-IN voted no
John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN voted no
Jasper Packard R-IN voted no
David Perley Lowe R-KS voted no
Samuel Hooper R-MA voted no
Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted no
George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted no
John Lynch R-ME voted no
William Pierce Frye R-ME voted no
Omar Dwight Conger R-MI voted no
Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted no
John Thomas Averill R-MN voted no
Henry W. Barry R-MS voted no
George Colin Mckee R-MS voted no
Legrand Winfield Perce R-MS voted no
Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC voted no
John Wright Hazelton R-NJ voted no
Charles West Kendall D-NV voted no
Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY voted no
Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY voted no
Horace Boardman Smith R-NY voted no
Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY voted no
Aaron Fyfe Perry R-OH voted no
Job Evans Stevenson R-OH voted no
John Armstrong Smith R-OH voted no
John Beatty R-OH voted no
Erasmus Darwin Peck R-OH voted no
William Peter Sprague R-OH voted no
John Armor Bingham R-OH voted no
William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted no
James Monroe Pendleton R-RI voted no
Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC voted no
Robert Brown Elliott R-SC voted no
Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC voted no
Roderick Randum Butler R-TN voted no
Horace Maynard R-TN voted no
Luke Potter Poland R-VT voted no
Gerry Whiting Hazelton R-WI voted no
Joel Allen Barber R-WI voted no
Philetus Sawyer R-WI voted no
Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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