Senate roll call 145 · 42nd Congress · Jan 29, 1872
To amend H.R. 243, by giving new hampshire 3 representatives instead of 2, vermont 3 instead of 2, ohio 19, instead of 20, illinois 18 instead of 19, missouri 1
On Jan 29, 1872, the Senate voted 9–48 (HR 243). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 8–33, Democrats 1–14, Others 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 9 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
- 9
- No
- 48
- Did not vote
- 18
- Date
- Jan 29, 1872
By party
- Republicans8 yes · 33 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Democrats1 yes · 14 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL voted yes
- Thomas Ward Osborn R-FL voted yes
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE voted yes
- James Willis Patterson R-NH voted yes
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI voted yes
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted yes
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted yes
- Arthur Inghram Boreman R-WV voted yes
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Benjamin Franklin Rice R-AR
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Cornelius Cole R-CA
- Eugene Casserly D-CA
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Joshua Hill R-GA
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- James Harlan R-IA
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL
- Alexander Caldwell R-KS
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy R-KS
- Garrett Davis D-KY
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Charles Sumner R-MA
- Henry Wilson R-MA
- George Vickers D-MD
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Alexander Ramsey R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Carl Schurz O-MO
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. D-MO
- Adelbert Ames R-MS
- John Pool R-NC
- Thomas Weston Tipton R-NE
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- John Potter Stockton D-NJ
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Henry Winslow Corbett R-OR
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- John Scott R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Frederick Adolphus Sawyer R-SC
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- John Francis Lewis R-VA
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Did not vote
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- William Alfred Buckingham R-CT
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Daniel Darwin Pratt R-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Willis Benson Machen D-KY
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- James Warren Nye R-NV
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Reuben Eaton Fenton R-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- William Sprague R-RI
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- William Gannaway Brownlow R-TN
- James Winright Flanagan R-TX
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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