To pass a resolution providing for a select committee to inquire into the condition of the late insurrectionary states.

On Mar 15, 1871, the House voted 127–63. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 58–48, Democrats 67–14, Others 2–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 62 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: 127
No: 63
Did not vote: 64
Date: Mar 15, 1871

By party

Republicans58 yes · 48 no · 37 didn’t vote
Democrats67 yes · 14 no · 25 didn’t vote
Others2 yes · 1 no · 2 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Charles Waldron Buckley R-AL voted no
William Anderson Handley D-AL voted no
Joseph Humphrey Sloss D-AL voted no
Oliver P. Snyder R-AR voted no
Archibald Thompson Macintyre D-GA voted no
Richard Henry Whiteley R-GA voted no
John Summerfield Bigby R-GA voted no
Dudley McIver Du Bose D-GA voted no
Pierce Manning Butler Young D-GA voted no
William G. Donnan R-IA voted no
Jackson Orr R-IA voted no
John Baldwin Hawley R-IL voted no
John Coburn R-IN voted no
James Noble Tyner R-IN voted no
John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN voted no
William Williams R-IN voted no
Jasper Packard R-IN voted no
David Perley Lowe R-KS voted no
Edward Crossland D-KY voted no
Joseph Horace Lewis D-KY voted no
John McConnell Rice D-KY voted no
Frank Morey R-LA voted no
Ginery Twichell R-MA voted no
Samuel Hooper R-MA voted no
Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted no
George Merrick Brooks R-MA voted no
George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted no
Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted no
James Robinson Mccormick D-MO voted no
Harrison Eugene Havens R-MO voted no
Samuel Swinfin Burdett R-MO voted no
Isaac Charles Parker R-MO voted no
Legrand Winfield Perce R-MS voted no
John Taffe R-NE voted no
John Taylor Bird D-NJ voted no
Charles St. John R-NY voted no
Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY voted no
John Edward Seeley R-NY voted no
Horace Boardman Smith R-NY 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
John Thomas Wilson R-OH voted no
Philadelph Van Trump D-OH voted no
James Monroe R-OH voted no
John Armor Bingham R-OH voted no
Leonard Myers R-PA voted no
James Scott Negley R-PA 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
James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA voted no
Charles Howell Porter R-VA voted no
William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA voted no
Joel Allen Barber R-WI voted no
Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI voted no
Philetus Sawyer R-WI voted no
Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI voted no
John James Davis D-WV voted no
Frank Hereford D-WV 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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